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Paulette Goddard, bright-eyed cinemadcap, childless through two marriages (to one Edgar James, and Charlie Chaplin), announced, in the sixth month of her third (to Army Captain Burgess Meredith), when "somehow the news got around," that she expects a baby next June or July...
...when the Mary Astor divorce story broke, Florabel got a call from the Daily News to cover it. She promptly bought the Astor diary for $500, made the trial the sizzling success of the '30s. Her other top stories were the Pantages, Clara Bow, the Errol Flynn and Chaplin trials. On the Chaplin story Florabel went to see Joan Berry at the Beverly Hills police station, advised her to retain Attorney Jack Irwin, thereby sewed up the best source. Other reporters rewrote her, or didn't write...
Born. To Charles Spencer Chaplin, 55, and Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 19, his fourth wife: their (and her) first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Geraldine. Weight...
Died. Mildred Harris, 41, onetime cinemactress, first of Charles Chaplin's four wives; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. She was 16 when she married Chaplin in 1918. two years later divorced him, charging that "he never did anything but think." She married twice again, tried many cinema comebacks, in 1937 played in burlesque...
...same time Ernie Pyle, the professional, was shrewd enough to capitalize on most of these same worries. In his column he kidded himself, dramatizing every little frailty, foible and misadventure. Gradually he created a sort of prose Charlie Chaplin, a bewildered little man whose best intentions almost always led to pratfalls. His readers loved it. People who recognized a fellow spirit, people who wanted to mother and protect him, wrote to him by the hundred. By 1940 he probably knew more people at firsthand or by mail than any man, with the possible exception of Jim Farley...