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...Hollywood, production on the life story of the onetime child actor, Jackie (The Kid) Coogan, was halted by a letter. Written by a lawyer for Charles Chaplin Sr., the letter protested the plan to have Charles Chaplin Jr. impersonate his famous father in the Coogan film. Warned the attorney: "Mr. Chaplin has not consented, and refuses to consent, to being impersonated in this manner...
...Another Chaplin ex-protegee, 33-year-old Joan Berry, who won a 1946 paternity suit against the comedian, was admitted to Patton State Hospital (for the mentally ill) after she was found walking the streets barefoot, carrying a pair of baby sandals and a child's ring, and murmuring: "This is magic...
...Tennessee President C. E. (for Cloide Everett) Brehm to the Morristown Sun (circ. 3,989). The winning editorial: "The Sad Case of UT's President," a rousing attack on President Brehm for "giving way to a pressure group" and refusing to allow a Russian movie and old Charlie Chaplin films to be shown on his campus. Said President Brehm: "Everyone has the right to have convictions and to express them...
When her ex-husband, Actor Burgess Meredith, sued in Manhattan for a $200,000 slice of what was once "community property," Cinemactress Paulette Goddard asked the Supreme Court in Manhattan for some advice. A Mexican divorce had been good enough when she divorced Charlie Chaplin, but didn't the court think that her Mexican divorce from Meredith was illegal? Couldn't she sue all over again in New York and claim that Meredith has been living in sin with his fourth wife, Dancer Kaja Sundsten...
After the hectic day Minnesota's Administrative Vice-President Malcolm Willy said "The showing of the "Hoaxters" in conjunction with "New China" might well have raised in the minds of its viewers question whether "the Hoaxters" is the best kind of propaganda film that could be devised."CHARLIE CHAPLIN...