Charlie Chaplin (1951)

law suits and another marriage 283 spent in a sanatorium by court permission, "because of the physical condition of the defendant." When the paternity suit was filed, Chaplin, through his attorneys, denied that he was the father of the child his former protegee expected in three months, but agreed to pay the costs of the confinement and submit to a blood test. By the terms of a temporary settlement, the twenty-three-year-old girl received twenty-five hundred dollars and a hundred dollars a week until further court order and four thousand dollars for medical expenses. Meanwhile on June 16, 1943, Chaplin, then fifty-four, married his fourth bride, eighteen-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene O'Neill. She, too, had studied drama with Chaplin and had been seen in his company frequently during the previous eight months. She had been given a part in "The Girl From Leningrad," which she now gave up, abandoning her acting ambitions. According to Miss Barry's lawyers their client collapsed on hearing the news. There followed Chaplin's indictment by a Federal grand jury. There were four separate counts including violation of the Mann Act and conspiracy to deny Miss Barry her civil rights. The F.B.I, was appealed to. At the hearing the Mann Act charge was dismissed and Chaplin was acquitted of the other counts. On October 2, 1943, Joan Barry gave birth to a daughter. In a subsequent paternity suit the jury found against Chaplin despite blood tests that proved he was not the father. In May 1 946, Chaplin was ordered to continue to support the child. While press photographers were flashing Chaplin being fingerprinted and the papers seethed with lurid details of the case, a Chaplin festival was ordered in Russia. At a gala showing of "The Gold Rush," Time magazine reports that Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theatre, pinned Chaplin's troubles on the Trotsky