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Joan Barry in court

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Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.Not long after 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 March 24, 1944 reads, "Red-haired Joan Barry, the government's star witness against Charlie Chaplin at his trial on 'white slave' charges, reads the news during a recess."
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