Virginia Cherrill

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Virginia Cherrill (1908 - 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the blind girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931).

Cherrill was born on a farm in Carthage, Illinois. She moved to Hollywood and met Charlie Chaplin when he sat next to her at a boxing match. He cast her in City Lights in which she gave a memorable performance, but Chaplin fell out with her during the shooting. She appeared in a few other films subsequently, but gave up her movie career in 1936.

Cherrill married four times; her second husband was actor Cary Grant (from 1934 to 1935), and her third was George Child-Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey (from 1937 to 1946).

Her longest marriage was to Florian Martini, with whom she lived in Santa Barbara, California from 1948 until her death. She had no children.

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