What happened to Geraldine Chaplin?

Her pussy stinks.

She was fantastic in her collaborations with Carlos saura. Maybe her passion left her.

She was Wallis Simpson in The Crown!

She also could be smart. Maybe she can afford to only take roles that interest her. I know she has a home in Miami, Madrid, and Switzerland.

The world hates mimes.

Oona. Oprah.

Oprah. Oona.

Oona. Oprah.

[quote] She appeared in very popular films of the time…Chaplin

Talk about nepotism!

[quote] I know she has a home in Miami, Madrid, and Switzerland.

One home in three locations?

It's some matter bending time shifting thing. Like how that Hermione bitch managed to take three classes at the same timeslot in one of those Harry Potter films

R8 Typo, sorry. One home in each city.

R8 it's a trinity.

She left the US starting in the 1970s mostly to get work in European films, where she was successful.

Most actresses her age do not work much.

Seriously, she disappeared. Not even the Julie Christie style disappear.

[quote] Seriously, she disappeared. Not even the Julie Christie style disappear.

The former went to Paris and was involved in a dangerous emigre organization, while the latter went out and did not come back. She must have been arrested in the street, as so often happened in those days, and she died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.

she played Chanel in a very short movie

I always thought Barbara Bush the younger resembled her.

Anorexic hospital for 35 years?

She’s 76 years old and still working. What have you done lately, OP?

I thought that OP's link picture was a photo of one of those museum cadavers.

We just saw her in Holy Beasts (2019) thanks to a NYT review. It was a mess.

She's been scary looking since 1976..

She was gorgeous

She played coco Chanel in a short film a few years ago

R23, are you also R15?

File under "Interesting actresses I haven't thought about since 1978."

Nepotism can't carry you forever. She ALWAYS stank

"Cria Cuervos" (1976) is a really excellent film.

Her daughter was in Game of Thrones (a victim at the Red Wedding).

R9 it’s called a time-turner!

I don't imagine being one of the beneficiaries of an estate worth $400 million+ (at today's value) and still growing gives you a great work ethic.

She was not in Casino Royale.

She's at an age where there aren't that many parts and many are probably written for the older actresses who are better known and active like Judi Dench, Maggie Smith or Helen Mirren.

She was in the Orphanage 2007. Truly one of the most brilliant and haunting films of its genre.

[quote] She was not in Casino Royale.

Stunt director Richard Talmadge employed Geraldine Chaplin to appear in a brief Keystone Cops insert

She went to Spain to bask in the sun and the sun attacked her with a vengeance.

I see a resemblance.

I like her face. Her acting. And certainly her lineage. Yes, she could have been bigger. But, she did just fine.

Nepotism, nepotism, so sick of it. How many good actors did she cock block.

She was excruciating in Zhivago, beyond awful There was no angle they could shoot her from that she didn't look like her father in a wig..Sorry, not a good look. All I could think was how it betrayed the book. Kept thinking when is Yummy Yuri going to run away from the the Little Tramp & get w. someone who might make his dick rise up. The delivery of her lines was like nails on a blackboard. Kept thinking how much did they pay for her to get the part. Wondered that in everything I have been cursed to see her in. She gives wooden, stodgy, nepotism a whole new meaning.

She’s always been pixie looking. Her skin is heavily lined because of sun, thin, porcelain skin when younger and a skinny body. Her eyes are still beautiful.

[quote] How many good actors did she cock block.

R37 Are you suggesting more experience actresses should have played Tonya?

I thought Tonya was just a naive, dutiful daughter who provided a contrast to the slutty adulteress Lara.

R24. Go play with your cunt

No, I meant she looked like her father dressed as the Little Tramp in Silent Films.

[quote] I thought Tonya was just a naive, dutiful daughter who provided a contrast to the slutty adulteress Lara.

There are two kinds of women.

Geraldine was very pretty when she was young but she aged even worse than Caroline Kennnedy. She never could act for shit though she was OK in the Saura movies. I knew her sister Josephine vaguely when I lived in Lausanne. She looked like a horse but was very sweet and unaffected.

Interestingly, Geraldine had an illegitimate son with Saura. At that time an illegitimate child couldn't inherit the nationality of a Spanish father and at the time the child of a British woman, born abroad, could not have British nationality so her son was stateless. She petitioned the UK government to change that and after her, unmarried British mothers who had children with foreigners while living abroad, could get a British passport.

She was really good in Alan Rudolph's "Remember My Name." For some obscure reason that film has never been released on home video in any format, but it shows up on TCM and such occasionally.

R32 I came here to post just that. She was incredible in that, tour de force performance in just a few minutes, I thought she stole the show. For Zhivago, I always wondered how Yuri could’ve picked Lara over Tanya, she was stunning in the film. Christie looked like a pouty sullen brat!

Clean your glasses & maybe pick up the book.

In 2019, she played Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor in season 3 of the Netflix period drama program The Crown.

She sucked

[quote] In 2019, she played Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor in season 3 of the Netflix period drama program The Crown.

R3.

Well done r14

She was hilarious in home for the holidays as the crazy aunt

[quote] There are two kinds of women…

And you, my dear, are a slut.

Who is the idiot who starts these threads?

I suspect it's a DL employee...random dumb threads to create content.

Geraldine Chaplin is 77 years old and has had long, full career. She's worked consistently for nearly 60 years.

What is she supposed to be doing? Starring in Marvel Universe films as UltraWrinkle?

[quote] Christie looked like a pouty sullen brat!

I know there's lots of Christie fans here but I reckon she had that pouty lower lip which marred any beauty.

And Frederic Raphael reveals (at 2.40) her incompetence as an actress. The director and editor had to work around her fluffed lines.

R22 was she? I think she’s a good presence in movies but I would never call her gorgeous. She was quirky looking at best.

I've met two old ladies who married in the 60s in gowns 'à la Tonya'.

All she needs in that photo is the painted on moustache, big shoes & cane to be 'The Little Tramp', just like dad. You could house a family of 5 on that forehead. And no I'm not photo ready for my shot Mr. DeMille(before you start that crap), but I didn't put myself out there to be on the big screen. Fug, fug, fugly to the extreme. Money & money & nepotism foisting this travesty. If you had read Zhivago & loved it you would have been outraged too. My Eyes! My Eyes!

She looks superanorexic in Almodovar's TALK TO HER.

She works as much as she wants. And kudos to her for no plastic surgery.

She played a lesbian in love with a black hooker in a foreign language film? Recently…

She was very good in the Merchant Ivory film Roseland (1977). Understated and beautiful. Another beauty in the film is Christopher Walken. Yes, she can act.

My mother, born in Boston in 1909, was aghast when she saw that pink outfit Geraldine wears, when arriving at the Moscow train station. “No one would ever have worn such a color! It would have been covered with soot and cinders in minutes.”

Interesting outlook from one who lived back then.

I always thought Chaplin was toothy but adequate. Later, she proved that if you keep working, you get better at it. Even Tab Hunter’s acting got better as he kept working.

She got old.

R61 your mother was born in 1909? How old was she when you were born? How old are you?

R63 the bitch is at least 95 I’m guessing

R63 I'm not that poster but my mother was born in 1909 and I'm 71. My grandfather - whom I never met - was born in 1865. Some of us were born to older parents.

R65 I get that, but it seems more rare for a woman to give birth at 35-40 in 1940-1950 than it does in 2021.

Op how could you not start your thread with the simple words WHET GERALDINE CHAPLIN ???? are you INSANE ? do you HATE US ? did you come here to hurt us BORIS ? you are worse the hitler, but you knew that

[quote] I get that, but it seems more rare for a woman to give birth at 35-40 in 1940-1950 than it does in 2021.

People had larger families and less access to birth control in 1940-50. No pill, no iud, nothing but condoms and even they were harder to get (and many didn't want to use them or even didn't believe in them). Many women had children until they just couldn't get pregnant any more - that's why there were so many families with 8, 10, 12 or more children.

I am very worried for Geraldine actually OP. Does she have enough help to manage her father's legacy and the tons of dollars it brings her ? is her purse big enough to carry all the cash ? plus she's elderly, tennis elbow is no fun. On top of that, so many houses to maintain, is the staff up to the task ? more questions than answers I guess. Is she OK ?

R66 there was the War - most men including my father were mobilized for up to 4 years and only got home after 1945, hence the Baby Boom

Chaplin's entire life was a baby boom. He had , like 75 children

[quote] Seriously, she disappeared. Not even the Julie Christie style disappear.

She was in "The Crown" just two years ago, and gave an excellent performance as the grieving Duchess of Windsor.

Chaplin lived in an old mansion above Vevey. I had a friend from Hong Kong who went to hotel school in Switzerland and opened a Chinese restaurant in Vevey. One day Chaplin and wife show up with their chauffeur to eat at his restaurant. After dinner my friend refused to let Chaplin and wife pay saying it was such an honor for his restaurant.

The next week they showed up again but this time the chauffeur ate with them and they didn't ask for the bill. Chaplin continued to visit my friend's restaurant every week, bringing along family members and never asking for the bill.

A true cheapskate.

She's a millionaire several times over, she works when she pleases. I've been to Vevey, visited the twins graves. He was from Dickensian background, I'm not surprised R73

I just came here to say that when your face is THAT wrinkled, dying your hair a stark, uniform color looks awful. Figure out a lighter shade of brown with some highlights and lowlights. Or let it go white, which can be gorgeous.

It looks as bad as a toupee. You’re not fooling anyone.

Bridget Bardot was shooting a movie in north Africa at the height of her glory. She went for a walk during a break and entered a little market. She bought a bottle of mineral water. The asking price was so phenomenal that she was shocked. She asked "is water that scarce around here ? ". The shop owner bowed and replied, "no, madam, true movie stars are"

The place in Vevey was not as grand as I expected. I mean it’s okay but essentially just a family home, not even. Swimming pool. I’ve been in nicer homes that did not belong to such a huge movie star.

[quote]For Zhivago, I always wondered how Yuri could’ve picked Lara over Tanya, she was stunning in the film. Christie looked like a pouty sullen brat!doll and her character was incredibly sexless and boring.

Because he was straight. Julie Christie was one of the hottest looking women, . Geraldine Chaplin looked like a kewpie doll and her character was sexless.

Gerry as Coco Chanel in Karl lagerfeld's short " the return"

R77 his neighbors in Corsier were Georges Simenon and Norman Krasna, the screenwriter.

Chaplin - who was an out and proud atheist - sent his daughters to a convent school in Lausanne - Mont Olivet - because the other boarding schools in Switzerland were a lot more expensive.

R76 OMG He looks like an old Egyptian!

R79 Chaplin with her English accent makes a more feasible Chanel than Kate.

Hepburn was interesting but had the voice of crow's caw.

[quote] Seriously, she disappeared. Not even the Julie Christie style disappear.

What are you saying?

The "Julie Christie style" was stolen from "The Sexually-Available Brigitte Bardot Style". Julie Christie was hired because she was an English-speaking version of the Sexually-Available Bardot Style.

[quote] I had a friend from Hong Kong who went to hotel school in Switzerland and opened a Chinese restaurant in Vevey.

Your friend, R73, tells a heart-rending story but was he Chinese?

Will anyone here tell us whether she played Coco Chanel ina short film and/or the Duchess of Windsor on The Crown? Thus far that hasn’t been discussed.

Much overrated.

She looked nothing like her father.

R84 he was and is Chinese.

She looks like her mother Oooonnagh O'Neill.

[quote] She never could act for shit

She did it for money, R43. (Her father was Dickensian)

[quote] Geraldine Chaplin looked like a kewpie doll and her character was sexless.

She was supposed to be sexless.

She was a virgin and lived with her parents. Don't judge other people by your expectations.

R79 Chaplin is so good in that! Thank God she hasn't ruined her face. And what superb acting.

this man @R54 is always bashing Julie, he's just an old bitch, there are several videos out there of him bitching about her, or Dirk, he's an homophobe to boot, and saying that Julie was an incompetent actress and that she was good in darling only because she was that character= a ruthless whore, means only 1 thing = he tried to fuck her and she told him to get lost. Julie is a GREAT actress

I've always like Gerry, since I was a kid, especially in Saura movies, cria cuervos , anyone who's me age will remember that song, it was played 24/7., "the mirror cracked" and a few others. She was soft, sweet and feminine, like Mia, Natalie. not evrey actress has to be a camp fest and a freak show.

We know, R93, you saw her on stage back in the 80s.

But your fleeting star-struck moment doesn't negate the REAL experience of Frederic Raphael, the Oscar-winning writer who created two roles in which Christie pretended to perform.

We're missing out on the skilled work by Schlesinger who told her 'Do it again, Julie', 'Again'. and 'Again'. And there was the editor who had to fillet out all the footage and cut it and re-splice it.

And Francois Truffaut, who had her in 'Farenheit 451', wrote Christie was an "Identikit actress' because he had to act one sentence from one reading and it was imposed with a reaction shot from another, etc, etc.

[quote] We know, [R93], you saw her on stage back in the 80s.

what ??? I never saw her on stage ? what does that mean ? that's for the dinosaur who saw Hepburn as Coco, surely

[quote] I never saw her on stage

Well in that case you have even less reason to be proprietorial about a foreign woman and a foreign scriptwriter you don't know.

what ? like i can't have an opinion, is that what you're saying ?

are you the crazy jewess R97/ R95 ? because this random horrible bitch screewriter who talks smack about everybody is jewish, I can't have an opinion ?

Julie Christie McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Afterglow, Away from Her, Don’t Look Now. STFU ‘chop shop’ actress, my ass.

that and this timeless masterpiece

I’ll never forget how gorgeous she was in DZ. Head to toe in pink at the train station. And she gave a beautiful performance.

Saw her once on a Mexican ESP game show … bizarre.

She struck me as one of those very, very few Spanish-speaking “big name” actresses who was affordable.

I thought Geraldine Chaplin was OK (so far).

But I didn't think much of her father. Not funny at all.

Well in complaining about Julie Christie it just goes to show that acting is more about luck than anything else and directors repeating takes until they get what they want- wasn’t Kubrick known for lots of takes and Hitchcock too? These directors know exactly what they want and it probably has little to do with the idea the actor has.

[quote] are you the crazy jewess. I can't have an opinion

R99 It's not an opinion, Jew-hating turd. It's yet another excuse to spew Jew hatred. As your post clearly illustrates.

[quote] screewriter

R99 Frederic Raphael is more than just a "screewriter".

He is a raconteur— almost as good as Ustinov.

These 144 videos cover a great deal of cultural history, including his not-always successful movies, his Oscar, his religion, the hopeless English, Somerset Maugham, his religion and a galaxy of fellow-artists.

[quote]R54 I know there's lots of Christie fans here but I reckon she had that pouty lower lip which marred any beauty.

Part of what makes Julie Christie intriguing is she’s not perfectly symmetrical and dainty and homogenized.

Ah, Christopher Walken in Roseland. Perfect timing and role for him.

Julie Christie's main competition in the UK came from Susannah York, who was an infinitely better actress.

Susannah York prioritized raising her children and made an awful lot of drek later in her career though.

[ITALIC] At age 67, Susannah showed up once again on film with a delightful cameo role in The Gigolos (2006), and seemed ripe for a major comeback, perhaps in a similar vein to the legendary Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren. Sadly, it was not to be. Diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, the actress died in January 15, 2011, six days after her 72nd birthday. Her final films, Franklyn (2008) and The Calling (2009), proved that she still possessed the magnetism of her earlier years. [/ITALIC]

As lovely as evah.

R107, did it cover his religion?

Just look at her vs her contemporaries-

Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Bridgit Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, Judi Dench, Susannah York, Jacqueline Bisset, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, etc.

She is not forgotten like Janet Suzman, but she isn't getting the work like Diana Rigg.

"isn't getting the work like Diana Rigg"? Rigg died.

R114 Yeah, I forgot about that. I am meaning Rigg worked steadily in her golden age; The Painted Veil, Game of Thrones, Victoria, All Creatures Great and Small, The West End, etc.

God, you guys have gone off on like four different tangents now. Like a female discussion.

Didn’t she get sober and move to Los Angeles?

Last I heard…

Anyone seen this?

Also, she’s a sweetheart and I never knew she was Chaplin’s kid, or whatever and had no clue she acted for a living.

Interesting. But I’m usually clueless. 🙄

Anyone remember “The Hawaiians”? She played wife to Charlton Heston’s character. It was filmed on Kauai in 1969.

My father was an officer in the Navy and we moved to Kauai in 1969 when I was 7. My brother was a year older, but because I was as tall as he was and we both had blond hair, everyone thought we were twins. Anyway, we were in a shopping center in Lihue when a couple approached my parents and started talking to them, but kept looking at my brother and me. Turns out they were casting the kid to play Geraldine and Charlton’s kid in the movie and thought my brother and I would be perfect as we not only looked alike, but also looked like the way the character is described. My shot with fame was dashed when my parents declined.

They were just JEALOUS!

Great story, R119. Thanks for sharing.

the crazy jewess is back people! just because that POS screewrtiter is jewish doesn't mean that we have to second his mysoginy. Go back to defending Woody, bitch, and leave us alone

[quote] that POS screewrtiter

I'm surprised at your anger and your misspelling. Have you spent any time listening to any of the videos recommended at R107?

That was great acting at r79.

It was REALLY great acting at R94 - which of the three was Geraldine?

Dear OP, I am Charlie Chaplin's daughter, and Eugene O'Neill's granddaughter, I don't know how to tell you this without sounding cunty...It's not like I have to work to make a living. Thank you for your concern. yours truly

[quote] Stunt director Richard Talmadge employed Geraldine Chaplin to appear in a brief Keystone Cops insert

R33 The Keystone cop sequence was cut out of the film so she was not in Casino Royale.

[quote] you guys have gone off on like four different tangents now. Like a female discussion.

How very amusing!

[quote] Part of what makes Julie Christie intriguing

Part of what made Julie Christie bankable in the 1960s was that she looked sexually available to those men who made movies and watched movies.

And she was forthright on screen.

[quote] (Julie Christie on Warren Beatty) Well, what I really want is to suck his cock.

She sensational in Altman's 'A Wedding.'

I have never gotten the Julie Christie sex symbol thing. Fashion icon, maybe. Her face was striking, not beautiful, and her body wasn't all that. Neither Twiggy thin nor Bardot curves. She's an above average actress.

Perhaps it was based more on the roles she played in dr. Zhivago and darling r131

[quote] She left the US starting in the 1970s mostly to get work in European films, where she was successful.

I thought Geraldine Chaplin was raised and schooled in Switzerland.

Switzerland was big TAX haven. George Clooney like it.

R132 Doctor Zhivago wasn't exactly a "sexy" movie. She played the overtly sexual role, but it was a long and boring (if beautiful) prestige slog. Darling, perhaps. I've read she was actually turned away from the James Bond series because when the producers met her in person as she wasn't good looking enough. The screen does wonders for the looks of some.

[quote] She played the overtly sexual role

Her mother has an abortion on screen.

Komarovsky calls her a slut.

Her breasts are falling out of her red dress.

Doing WML to promote Dr. Zhivago.

I haven't read this entire thread, just the recent posts, but I can't believe anyone could be questioning Julie Christie's enormous popularity in the mid-late 1960s!

I was a teen then but she was the absolute IT GIRL of the moment, a fashion icon and beauty that every girl wanted to look like (hair, makeup, clothes!) and every (straight) boy wanted to fuck, equally glamorous in hip contemporary British films like Darling and Petulia at the height of Beatlemania and Carnaby Street fandom, but also achingly fetching and elegant in period films like Dr. Zhivago, Far From the Madding Crowd and The Go-Between. And, in the US, at least, she never seemed to become overexposed, never participated in any TV interviews or guest spots, rarely seemed to do much PR (again, at least in the US), so there was always a slight sense of mystery about her. I loved her.

Geraldine Chaplin, OTOH, was quite beautiful but in an otherworldly delicate hippie sort of way, rather non-sexual, and perhaps started off on the wrong foot playing "the other woman" in Zhivago, even if she was the wife and Lara was the mistress. Tonya's story line (I had to look up her character's name) was never the one audiences were invested in. I suspect she quickly became typed as a bit of a kooky flower child character actress and never played a leading lady role in a major film again. Somehow it worked for Mia Farrow, for a short while, anyway, until she was reinvented by Woody Allen.

[quote] questioning Julie Christie's enormous popularity in the mid-late 1960s!

No.

We are questioning her ability to speak the lines given to her.

The director told her to repeat the sentence over and over. The director told her to stress particular words and syllables.

Afterwards the editor had to cut some words from one take and splice it with other words from another take.

I think Geraldine has done a lot of art films in foreign languages - she speaks like French, Spanish, Italian, god I don't know what all.

Oh she grew up in Switzerland - that's probably why she speaks all the Euro languages, just about. All the Swiss seem to.

She grew up just outside of Lausanne.

[quote] she was actually turned away from the James Bond series because when the producers met her in person as she wasn't good looking enough.

Her breasts weren't large enough. The ones at R135 are fake.

Can’t imagine an actress like Julie Christie would have wanted a Bond girl role anyway, she probably thinks herself fortunate to have avoided that fate. It would have been before her Oscar win and would have probably meant she would have been rejected for roles in Zhivago and darling.

Julie Christie really chose her roles well over the years. I'm not saying she was always in hit films, probably she wasn't in very many, but all of her films were intelligent, interesting and well-produced. She never appeared in trash. How many actresses can say that?