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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).
Virginia Cherrill was a US and UK actress who starred in films such as City Lights, Blonde Venus and White Heat. She was discovered by Charles Chaplin at a boxing match and married Cary Grant after meeting him at a premiere.
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Apr 5, 2012 · Virginia Cherrill was the beautiful and charismatic actress who starred in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights and became a Hollywood and British society icon. This book tells her story of romance, laughter and happiness, from her humble beginnings to her marriage to a Polish airman.
- Juliet Nicholson
Nov 18, 1996 · Virginia Cherrill, a 1930's actress who starred as a beautiful, blind flower girl in the classic Charlie Chaplin silent film ''City Lights'' (1931), died...
May 15, 2009 · CHAPLIN'S GIRL: Virginia Cherrill. But the actress Virginia Cherrill disappeared after the movie became a worldwide hit in 1931. She’s a blank in the many Chaplin biographies. Now thanks to...
The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry Myers).
Her greatest role was as the Blind Flower Girl in Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, but who was Virginia Cherrill? Through her genealogy, movie career, and public records I intend to find out and shed some light on the person who, in the opinion of film critic James Agee, delivered with Chaplin, “The greatest single piece…
