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...days after 18-year-old Oona O'Neill had described her eight-month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to coastal Carpinteria, nervously found the finger for her first and his fourth wedding ring,* hid himself and his bride somewhere in Montecito...
...week before he had agreed to pay his pre-Oona protegee Joan Berry $2,500 down, legal costs, and support until the blood test which may or may not show that he did not father her unborn child. From the white house in the San Francisco hills where Chaplin's new, recently ailing father-in-law Eugene O'Neill† works with his third wife, Carlotta Monterey, on a long awaited cycle of plays, no word came. The bride's mother sent congratulations. Said Joan Berry: "He can't do this...
...seventh heaven. I went every night to his house. Then he dropped me." With the Errol Flynn case scarcely disposed of, a pretty red-haired Hollywood drama student named Joan Berry was speaking of apple-cheeked little Charles Spencer Chaplin. The mother of pregnant Miss Berry filed a paternity suit against the 54-year-old comedian, asked $10,000 for prenatal care, $5,000 court costs, $2,500 a month for the support of the child. Pending a court hearing, Chaplin declared: "I am not responsible for Miss Berry's condition." He charged incidentally that she had demanded...
...Beasts. Cinema stars, in ratio to the tender age of their trade, took a less active part than they do today. Pin-up girls were as likely to come from the Police Gazette as from movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket...
Both Charlie Chaplin and U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew were once marked for Japanese assassin's bullets, in an attempt to get the United States to declare war, it was revealed by Grew in a feature article in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin discussing the Nipponese tradition of political murder...