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Title
Joan Barry at courthouse
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
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Not long after 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 April 3, 1944 reads, "Shown above is red-haired Joan Barry, the comedian's former prote´ge´, who told the jury that Chaplin had been intimate with her in New York. This he denied."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106938
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10146
CARL0005229133
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30954
Subject
Barry, Joan
Barry, Joan--Trials, litigation, etc
Chaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977--Trials, litigation, etc
United States.--Mann Act of 1910--Cases
Trials--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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