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 23, 1944 reads, "Whiling the time away in court, Charlie Chaplin yesterday went in for 'doodling' in a big way, these being the battered brogans in which he climbed the ladder of film fame."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977--Trials, litigation, etc Barry, Joan--Trials, litigation, etc United States.--Mann Act of 1910--Cases Shoes--California--Los Angeles--Art Drawings Trials--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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