Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mike Jacobs, scheming, scowling No. 1 U.S. fight promoter, smiled all over his face as he and Mrs. Josephine Jacobs adopted five-month-old Joan...
Charles Chaplin, acquitted of a Mann Act indictment charging that he transported Joan Berry across state lines for immoral purposes, had still to face two actions: 1) his alleged paternity of Miss Berry's six-month-old daughter, Carol Ann; 2) his alleged deprivation of Miss Berry's civil rights...
...Joan Fontaine, 27-year-old Hollywoodienne, said she would sue for divorce against pipe-smoking, 42-year-old Brian Aherne within two weeks. Their full-dress wedding was one of the handsomer scenes on Hollywood's 1939 calendar...
Auburn-haired Joan Berry, 24, who wandered from her native Detroit to New York to Hollywood in pursuit of a theatrical career, became a Chaplin protegee in the summer of 1941. She fitted into a familiar pattern. Chaplin signed her to a $75-a-week contract, began training her for a part in a projected picture. Two weeks after the contract was signed she became his mistress. Throughout the summer and autumn, Miss Berry testified last week, she visited the ardent actor five or six times a week. By midwinter her visits were down to "maybe three times a week...
Chaplin's lawyer, slick Jerry Giesler (attorney for Errol Flynn, Alexander Pantages) had a battery of witnesses waiting to testify that Joan Berry was no one-man girl. Judge J. F. T. O'Connor, onetime (1933-38) U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, shooed away this legal red herring as often as it appeared. The prosecutor, Charles H. Carr, argued: "Even if you put a common prostitute on the stand, it would be immaterial as to how many men she might have had affairs with in the past." The only issue was the technical one of Chaplin...