Oona Living in the Shadows At age 18, Oona O'Neill, a Manhattan debutante spurned by her neglectful, alcholic father, Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, went to Hollywood to become an actress. Instead, a year later, in 1943, she married Charlie Chaplin. Thirty-six years her senior, and thrice-divorced, Oona found in Chaplin the love and support that helped her... more » escape the family curse of alcholism and mental illness.« less