Mildred Harris

Mildred Harris is one of those early Hollywood figures who gets footnoted as "Chaplin's first wife" and then promptly overlooked, which honestly does her a disservice. She was already a working actress at age ten, grinding through the vaudeville circuit and silent film sets long before Chaplin came into the picture. She married him at seventeen, and their brief, unhappy union ended in divorce — but she kept working through the 1920s and into the sound era, which was more than most silent-film contemporaries could manage. She died at just forty-two, which cuts the story painfully short. Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is a quiet acknowledgment that she was a real presence in early cinema, not just a famous man's ex-wife.

Name (English)

Mildred Harris

Name (Japanese)

ミルドレッド・ハリス

Reading

みるどれっど・はりす

Born

November 29, 1901 – July 20, 1944

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Origin

Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

Occupation

film actor

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Wyoming
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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