Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Charles Spencer Chaplin, defendant in the paternity suit (TIME, Jan. 1) brought by his onetime protegee Joan Berry, was conspicuously absent from the Los Angeles courtroom when Miss Berry's bush-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott, 77, roared his final plea to the jury. Samples: "This pestiferous, lecherous hound. . . . I'm sorry he isn't here so I could . . . hand it to him right on the chin. . . . Did you ever hear the story of Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt...
...care & feeding of females - in this case Selznick actresses - is one of Colby's most important functions. Joan Fontaine, for instance, has long felt that Selznick has exploited her. Colby, if she does not cajole Miss Fontaine into coming to terms about a new contract, will at least set up the very best possible arrangement for her boss. Selznick meanwhile will know exactly what is going on in Miss Fontaine's mind (unless Miss Fontaine is mighty careful) by virtue of sitting in vicariously on the kind of female conversations which generally take place in the powder room...
...Woman in the Window (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett; TIME...
...following Colby charges-top Selznick actresses-are shown clockwise from bottom on the cover: Shirley Temple, Jennifer Jones, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy McGuire...