Actress in US and UK films of the early 1930s. Born on a farm, Cherrill was discovered by 'Charles Chaplin' and stopped working after their marriage in 1933. At one time, lived in England as the wife of the Earl of Jersey. Finally settled happily in Santa Barbara.
Best remembered as the blind girl selling flowers in Charles Chaplin s City Lights .
Through her third marriage she became stepmother of the father of William Villiers and aunt of the mother of Bart Ruspoli.
In her 1935 divorce from actor Cary Grant , she received $50,000, which was equivalent to 50% of his community property at the time.
Close friend and former classmate of Sue Carol at Kemper Hall in Wisconsin.
She did not give many interviews after her retirement from films. Her only extensive recorded interview was with filmmakers Kevin Brownlow and ;David Gill for their documentary "Unknown Chaplin" . Film historian Jeffrey Vance interviewed her extensively in her last years and quotes her in the book "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema" and in the audio commentary track to the Criterion Collection edition DVD/Blu-ray of City Lights .
[When asked why her film career ended] I was no great shakes as an,actress.
