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Charles Spencer Chaplin, 56, was adjudged (by 11-to-1 vote of a California jury) the legal father of auburn-haired Joan Berry's 18-months-old daughter, Carol Ann. One juror's reason: "Mr. Chaplin overacted on the witness stand when he turned toward us and tried to charm us." This windup of the two-year court battle satisfied nobody. The comedian remained unconvinced, and blood specialists back him up. His ex-protégée considered the $75 a week awarded her for Carol Ann's support "ridiculous"; she had asked...
...Approval," in which Brook appears as producer-director-star, presents what could be a credit to multi-talented geniuses Welles, Chaplin, and Coward. Taking up the broken down aristocracy where Coward left off, Brook stars in the role of George, the ninth Duke of Bristol...
...Charles Chaplin, relaxing between trials on paternity charges brought by Joan Berry, found himself in the headlines again: a bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate directing the Attorney General to find out whether the British-born actor could be deported as an undesirable alien on charges of immorality. The bill's sponsor: North Dakota's lone wolf Senator William Langer, who had been charged with "moral turpitude" but was acquitted before being officially seated in the Senate...
...come the tried and money-wise axis of Walter Wanger, Sol Lesser and Edward Small; the Crosby, Cagney and Leo (Going My Way) McCarey companies; and many of the profitable B producers. And perennially on the verge of making another picture are such formidable pioneers of independence as Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, who helped found United Artists Corp...
Charles Spencer Chaplin, laid up in his Hollywood home with cuts in his left ankle after kicking in a glass door because he had lost his keys, heard that the paternity suit brought against him by Joan Berry had ended in a mistrial: the jury had deadlocked at 7-to-5 for acquittal (nine votes needed for a verdict). It will be summer before the court can schedule a new trial...