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Title
Serious in court
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1944
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Not long after Joan Barry filed the first paternity suit against Chaplin, federal prosecutors brought Mann Act charges against Charlie Chaplin in relation to Barry; he was acquitted.
Photograph caption dated March 21, 1944 reads, "In serious mood,fixing his pocket handerchief, is comedian Chaplin, shown in the courtroom."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106884
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1535 B-6
CARL0005228734
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30925
Subject
Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977
Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977--Trials, litigation, etc
Barry, Joan--Trials, litigation, etc
United States.--Mann Act of 1910--Cases
Comedians--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Trials--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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