Charlie Chaplin was the king of the golden age of cinema.
And his golden age was 14.
shareI don't get it
shareWell, Charlie liked 'his' women young and crispy.
shareHe liked much younger women.
shareLike mid-teens younger. And even in the 1920s that didn't fly.
Although I've always found it interesting that when Chaplin was in his mid-fifties, he married Oona O'Neil a few days after she turned 18, and she was his 4th wife. Now you'd expect that marriage to quickly collapse into disaster and scandal, right? But no, they were married as long as they both lived, they had like ten children, they seemed perfectly happy together, and there were no more teen scandals for Charlie. Real life is so damned unpredictable.
elvis and priscilla didn't last
shareI read today that Priscilla claimed that Elvis respected her when they first started dating because of their age gap and waited until she was older to have sex with her. She was 14 and he was 24 when they first started dating. Elvis was a creep.
https://www.insider.com/priscilla-presley-addresses-10-year-age-gap-elvis-2023-9
Oh yeah, the average middle-aged-and-teen marriage usually implodes horribly as soon as the teen is old enough to have a clue, but it's weird that there are exceptions to every trend.
Not that I can think of any other exceptions at the moment.