Word: chaplinitis
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...recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter Oona, dark-eyed fourth wife of recently indicted Charles Chaplin (TIME...
...Charles Chaplin by his long-awaited blood test proved that he could not have been the father of Joan Berry's four-months-old daughter. Miss Berry went into hysterics. Said her lawyer, John J. Irwin: "I believed all along that my client was telling the truth." Next day he suggested that Chaplin might have tampered with his blood. Experts immediately declared such a dodge impossible. Lawyer Irwin resigned. U.S. Attorney Carr continued his prosecution of Chaplin. Asked whether Joan might have to go to work now that she was cut off from Chaplin support, her mother answered...
...week's end, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill Chaplin, the 54-year-old comedian's fourth wife, said she expected a baby in mid-August: "I hope this news will stop a lot of those silly rumors that are going around. If the baby is a boy we'll name him Lee, I guess. I don't know what it'll be if it's a girl, but it won't be Oona...
...Charles Chaplin was indicted by a federal grand jury for two violations of the Mann Act. The comedian, who married 18-year-old Oona O'Neill last June, was charged with "causing to be transported Joan Berry ... by railway . . . with the intent and purpose of having the said woman engage in illicit sex relations . . . [Indictment 1] from Los Angeles to New York" and [Indictment 2] in the other direction. Joan claims that he fathered her four-month-old daughter Carol Ann. The grand jury also accused Chaplin of conspiring with others to influence Beverly Hills Judge Charles Griffin...
...Harold Lloyd started his screen career as a randy little leprechaun with a Chaplinesque mustache. It was only after Lloyd shaved his lip and framed his eyes that he rose to rival Chaplin at the box office. Shown with him here is Bebe Daniels...