Word: chaplinitis
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...famed Hollywood comedian sat uneasily in the witness stand last week and considered the far-from-comic aspects of ingratitude. Charles Spencer Chaplin, 55, his platinum hair damp against his perspiring forehead, saw himself as an ill-used man. Three years ago, he had impulsively befriended an auburn-haired, freckle-nosed girl from Detroit named Joan Berry. There was a misty quality in the girl's shy brown eyes that made him think she might have picture possibilities. As it turned out, she didn...
...became the great Chaplin's protégée. Night after night, sometimes as often as five or six times a week during that summer and fall of 1941, he worked with her. He did "everything in the world to build her up spiritually as well as professionally. I believed in that girl. I lectured her. She was inarticulate...
Last week in court Miss Berry, 24, had obviously become articulate. She had accused Charlie Chaplin of having fathered her 14-month-old illegitimate daughter, Carol Ann, during a night in December 1942. A fascinated seven-woman, five-man jury-and hundreds of thousands of tabloid readers throughout the U.S.-got the kind of profane love story that the Hays office has not allowed Hollywood to film for years...
...Little Love." Joan Berry's memory of Dec. 23, 1942-the night on which she claims that little Carol Ann was conceived-amounted to total recall. That night, she said, having heard no word from Chaplin for two weeks, Joan went to his home and stormed his bedroom, brandishing a gun. She said: "I'm almost out of my mind. You never called...
What, the court wanted to know, was Chaplin doing all this time? Miss Berry shyly fingered her smooth calves: "He was playing with my legs-here. He said: 'You know where to get the pajamas.' I did and I got them. He made a little love to me . . ." And then they went...