Word: giesler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anthropology, Mrs. Carter's guided tour of the Pasadena paradise is indeed fascinating. The pattern of the perfect life is disturbed by nothing but slight cases of alcoholism or mismating outside the tribe. Mother worries that Decker might get hooked on a starlet and bring on Jerry Giesler with a paternity case. Sister has already married a mathematician from Cal Tech, who appears to her as a wonderful being, "exotic and remote as a maharajah"-but who makes less money than the gardener. Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies...
...Discomfort. The Reynolds verdict is only one of the legal triumphs savored by Author Nizer in My Life in Court. A sort of East Coast version of the late Jerry Giesler (TIME, Jan. 12), Nizer won a whopping settlement for Eleanor Holm in her divorce action against Billy Rose, represented Bobo Rockefeller when she divorced Winthrop Rockefeller, proved that Charlie Chaplin had plagiarized the idea for The Great Dictator from Author Konrad Bercovici, masterminded Loew's, Incorporated's battle to prevent its takeover by deposed M-G-M Boss Louis B. Mayer...
Divorce & a Horse. Divorce was Giesler's other specialty. Married twice himself (he had two daughters and one son), he helped Barbara Hutton divest herself of Cary Grant, took the side of Lady Sylvia Ashley against Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann...
...Giesler never talked about the fees he charged, but Chaplin reportedly paid him $100,000, Errol Flynn $75,000. He averaged about $150,000 a year-not much for a star whose performance in some of the greatest of Hollywood scenes should have earned him half a dozen Oscars...
Died. Harold Lee ("Jerry") Giesler, 77, canny counsel for two generations of Hollywood celebrities in distress, whose courtroom histrionics won him fame as "The Magnificent Mouthpiece"; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills (see SHOW BUSINESS...