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Photograph was edited for publication purposes.Not long after Joan 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 February 21, 1944 reads, "Serious and immobile, Chaplin is shown as he heard himself formally accused of violating the Mann White Slave Act and, with six others, of conspiring to violate the civil rights if Joan Barry, his former prote´ge´." Seen with Chaplin is his attorney, Jerry Giesler.
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- Barry, Joan
- California
- Cases
- Chaplin, Charlie
- Comedians
- Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Giesler, Jerry
- Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
- Lawyers
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Evening Herald And Express Photographs
- Mann Act Of 1910
- Motion Picture Actors And Actresses
- Trials
- Trials, Litigation, Etc
- United States
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