Virginia Cherrill

 Virginia Cherrill (April 12, 1908 – November 14, 1996)

She was an actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931). Even before City Lights was released, 20th Century Fox signed Cherrill to a contract. Following the success of City Lights, the studio put her to work in early sound films of the 1930s, such as Girls Demand Excitement (1931), one of John Wayne's first films as a star. Big-name directors cast her in their films, such as John Ford in The Brat (1931) and Tod Browning in Fast Workers (1933). She also appeared in the 1931 Gershwin musical Delicious with Janet Gaynor. She then went to Britain where she starred in two of James Mason's earlier films, including Troubled Waters, which turned out to be her last film. She was married four times, her second husband was Cary Grant (1934-1935). Her third husband was George Child-Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, from 1937 to 1946. Her last husband was Florian Martini, a Polish airman whose squadron she had looked after during World War II. They were married from 1948 until her death, she didn't have any children. Cherrill died at age 88 on November 14, 1996. She and her husband, who died in 2001, are interred at Santa Barbara Cemetery in Santa Barbara, California.