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Title: Giesler with Chaplin 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: Title supplied by cataloger.; 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.
Attorney Jerry Giesler, right, with his client, Charlie Chaplin, in court during the Mann Act indictment and grand jury proceedings charged against the actor. Photograph dated March 10, 1944.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106881
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1535 B-6
CARL0005228731
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30930
Subject: Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977
Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977--Trials, litigation, etc
Giesler, Jerry,--1886-1962
Barry, Joan--Trials, litigation, etc
United States.--Mann Act of 1910--Cases
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Comedians--United States
Grand jury--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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