The one-time San Bernardino resident and her friend were surprised to see the silent movie star while at a Los Angeles soda fountain in the 1920s.
It’s a Hollywood tradition that a soda fountain is where dreams of movie stardom come true, especially if you’re young and beautiful.
The red-haired Kennedy, just a few years after attending a San Bernardino elementary school, and her friend were surprised to see silent movie star Charlie Chaplin walk into the place, she told the Los Angeles Evening Express of Nov. 1, 1929. The source of that tale was a 1929 newspaper interview of Kennedy, though there is no mention of such an encounter in any of Chaplin’s biographies.
She was born Myrna or Merna Kahler in Illinois and was 2 when her parents separated. Her mother moved her and a brother to Texas and finally to San Bernardino, where Merna spent at least the sixth grade at now-closed Base Line School. At that same time, her mother married Thomas G. Kennedy, who was in the produce business in San Bernardino, reported the Sun newspaper, March 3, 1926.
The family later moved to Los Angeles where she took “Kennedy” as her last name. It was there she was adamant about a disinterest in schoolwork. She recalled being sent to the principal’s office at Los Angeles High School in 1925 and “was told not to come back. ‘I never intend to,’ I said. ‘I’m going to the stage.’ ”
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