Virginia Cherill

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Virginia Cherill

Born 12 April 1908 in Carthage, Illinois, died 14 November 1996, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Birth Name - Dollie Virginia Cherrill
Height -5' 5" (1.65 m)
An actress in US and UK films of the early 1930s, she was born on a farm and discovered by Charles Chaplin while seated beside him at a boxing match in Los Angeles, he introduced himself at intermission and hired her for her debut in City Lights (1931).

Cherill met husband Cary Grant at the premiere of Blonde Venus (1932) and stopped working after their marriage in 1933. In later years she lived in England as the wife of the Earl of Jersey. She finally settled happily in Santa Barbara.