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...equally strong support, is not a mark of greatness; it is, rather, an indication that technical or stylistic innovations have been strikingly exploited, or that an extreme statement has been made. Citizen Kane and L'Avventura, a classic and a mediocre trump-up, fall into the first category. Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Stanley Kramer's new work fall into the latter...
...savored by Author Nizer in My Life in Court. A sort of East Coast version of the late Jerry Giesler (TIME, Jan. 12), Nizer won a whopping settlement for Eleanor Holm in her divorce action against Billy Rose, represented Bobo Rockefeller when she divorced Winthrop Rockefeller, proved that Charlie Chaplin had plagiarized the idea for The Great Dictator from Author Konrad Bercovici, masterminded Loew's, Incorporated's battle to prevent its takeover by deposed M-G-M Boss Louis B. Mayer...
...clients ranged from Errol Flynn to Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin to Smoky Bob Mitchum. He was attacked as a publicity hound and had a reputation as a fast man at taking on sensational cases: when the Beverly Hills cops first arrived at the home of Lana Turner after her daughter had stabbed Johnny Stompanato, Giesler opened the door. But underneath all the star-spangled headlines was a quiet, brilliant lawyer, an ambivalence chaser and not an ambulance chaser, who third-guessed his opposition and won his cases less by theatrics than by thorough and meticulous preparation...
...against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann Act for transporting Starlet Joan Berry to New York. (He did not defend Chaplin when the actor lost the paternity suit that prompted him to leave Hollywood forever...
Giesler never talked about the fees he charged, but Chaplin reportedly paid him $100,000, Errol Flynn $75,000. He averaged about $150,000 a year-not much for a star whose performance in some of the greatest of Hollywood scenes should have earned him half a dozen Oscars...