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mousy but screen-struck girl from Brooklyn, she arrived in Hollywood in 1940. She had to be content with nonacting jobs, including that of a waitress, until the millionaire oil man, J. Paul Getty, included her in a party of girls to go to Mexico for the inauguration of Avila Camacho. In Mexico, Joan Barry was given a letter of introduction to Tim Durant, United Artists agent and long a friend of Chaplin. Durant suggested that she meet the actor, who was looking for a leading lady for his new picture.
They met in June 1941, and Chaplin, "telling her that she had all the qualities of a new Maude Adams," gave her a contract for seventy-five dollars a week. She was sent to Max Reinhardt for dramatic instruction and also received coaching from Chaplin himself. While grooming her for "Shadow and Substance," Chaplin, according to Miss Barry, "became interested in her as a woman." She underwent two illegal operations, she said, while preparing for her promised movie debut.
In October 1942, along with signs that the actor was tiring of her, her salary was cut to twenty-five dollars a week. Just before Christmas Miss Barry, in a desperate mood, went to Chaplin's house where she threatened to shoot him and then end her own life, using a pistol she had bought in a pawnshop. Evidently Chaplin was more amused than frightened, for then and there he wooed and won her again. When, a week or so later, she made another scene, Chaplin, whose interest had turned elsewhere, called the police. The girl was given a ninetyday suspended sentence and ordered to leave town. As she left the courtroom, she was handed a railroad ticket and a hundred dollars. In May, she returned to the Chaplin mansion. She was caught after crawling in through a rear window, was arrested for vagrancy, and sentenced to thirty days in jail. Most of the sentence was