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Charlie Chaplin, the silent screen's "Little Tramp," was beloved by millions of movie fans until he starred in a series of salacious, real-life federal courtroom dramas. The 1944 trial was described by ace New York Daily News reporter Florabel Muir as "the best show in town." The leading lady was a woman under contract to his studio—red-haired ingénue Joan Barry, Chaplin's protégée and former mistress. Although he beat the federal criminal trial, Chaplin lost a paternity case and had to pay child support despite blood type evidence that proved he was not the child's father.
A decade later during the Cold War, the U.S. government used the Barry trials as an excuse to bar the left-leaning, sexually adventurous, British-born comic from the country he had called home for forty years. Not only did these trials have a lasting impact on law; they also raise concerns about the power of celebrity, Cold War politics, the media frenzy surrounding high-profile court proceedings, and the sorry history of the casting couch. When Charlie Met Joan examines these trials from the perspective of both parties, asking whether Chaplin was unfairly persecuted by the government because of his left-leaning political beliefs, or if he should have been held more accountable for his cavalier treatment of Barry and other women in his life.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter 1. The Circus
Chapter 2. Feathering Her Nest
Chapter 3. The Lost Little Tramp
Chapter 4. A Brooklyn Stenographer
Chapter 5. "One Girl in Hollywood"
Chapter 6. "I Wanted to Hurt Charles the Way He Had Hurt Me"
Chapter 7. A Lost Soul
Chapter 8. "A Story That Needed Many Ears"
Chapter 9. "Shouldn't We Run This Down?"
Chapter 10. "We never Close a Case"
Chapter 11. The Magnificent Mouthpiece
Chapter 12. "There Can't Be Too Many Women on a Jury for Me"
Chapter 13. Joan Finally in the Spotlight
Chapter 14. "The Frozen Hatred for My Client Thawed"
Chapter 15. "Oh, I Think I Kissed Her before That"
Chapter 16. "Here Lies the Body of Joan Berry"
Chapter 17. "We Hope Charlie Chaplin Now Disappears"
Chapter 18. "Like an Ocean Breeze in a Musty Room"
Chapter 19. "I Have Committed No Crime"
Chapter 20. "All Unhappy in Chaplin Case"
Chapter 21. "The Biggest Role of My Life"
Chapter 22. "Proceed with the Butchery"
Chapter 23. "A Minor Case of Anxiety"
Epilogue
A Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
