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Virginia Cherrill. Virginia Cherrill (April 12, 1908 – November 14, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931).
City Lights | |
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Starring | Charlie Chaplin Virginia Cherrill Florence Lee Harry Myers Al Ernest Garcia |
Cinematography | Roland Totheroh Gordon Pollock |
Edited by | Charlie Chaplin Willard Nico |
Music by | Charlie Chaplin Flower Girl's theme by José Padilla Orchestrated by Arthur Johnston and Alfred Newman |
Synopsis When Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) left home, she thought that her childhood fears were behind her. As a young girl growing up, she was never really sure of what was real when the lights went out at night.
The film follows Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an up-and-coming pop star who's simultaneously perched at the top of the charts and the top of her hotel balcony, utterly disillusioned with a career that's come at the cost of her self-worth.
He was accused of communist sympathies, and some members of the press and public were scandalised by his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the U.S. in 1952 and settle in Switzerland.