Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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million-dollar contract and first marriage 91 Stewart films. The encounter was at the Alexandria Hotel where Mayer, in a party of twelve including Miss Stewart, and Chaplin, in a smaller group, sat at nearby tables. Notes were exchanged and the two men met in the lobby. There was a heated discussion between them over terms offered for settlement that Miss Harris — and apparently Mayer — considered niggardly. "Take off your glasses," Chaplin ordered. Mayer did so and Chaplin hit him in the face. Mayer returned the blow and Chaplin went down. Friends and hotel employees intervened. Jack Pickford took Chaplin in charge and sent him home. "I only did what any man would have done," was Mayer's smug description of his "protection" of a commercial property. Chaplin continued to avoid his wife. Mildred is said to have often waited, huddled in her parked car at a corner past which Kono drove her husband to the Athletic Club in Los Angeles, hoping for a glimpse or a word from him. At the suggestion of her friend, Anita Stewart, she tried arousing his jealousy. It was arranged to have George Stewart, Anita's brother, dine several nights a week at Mildred's home. The effect of this news on Chaplin was opposite to what was intended. Hopeful of learning the worst, to use as evidence for a divorce, Charlie and Kono, on three successive nights, tiptoed to the house to eavesdrop. They were disappointed to find nothing amiss. The spying ended when a detective chased them. Later, when Chaplin learned of a party given by Mildred on a chartered yacht, he hopefully plied its captain with liquor. Again he met with disappointment. The captain reported a most decorous evening; no one drunk; dancing to a victrola; and early to bed, the women in one cabin, the men in another. August 1920 finally saw announcements of Miss Harris's suit for divorce accompanied by sensational ac