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Scott Detrow

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The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Well, it would cause trouble now. No question it would cause trouble now. I think even people are even more sensitive about it now than they were then. At the time he was going to trial in the paternity suit involving Joan Berry, just as the trial was getting underway, he married Una O'Neill, the daughter of Eugene O'Neill. And she was 18 years old and he was 53.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Well, it would cause trouble now. No question it would cause trouble now. I think even people are even more sensitive about it now than they were then. At the time he was going to trial in the paternity suit involving Joan Berry, just as the trial was getting underway, he married Una O'Neill, the daughter of Eugene O'Neill. And she was 18 years old and he was 53.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Well, it would cause trouble now. No question it would cause trouble now. I think even people are even more sensitive about it now than they were then. At the time he was going to trial in the paternity suit involving Joan Berry, just as the trial was getting underway, he married Una O'Neill, the daughter of Eugene O'Neill. And she was 18 years old and he was 53.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

so the His marriage seemed to confirm everything that the the Hearst Press and the Los Angeles Times Press and the Chicago Tribune Press all the right-wing newspaper chains were printing about him that he was a roue that he was a degenerate blah blah blah blah As it happened. He was married to uno Neil for the rest of his life very happily they had eight children together and

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

so the His marriage seemed to confirm everything that the the Hearst Press and the Los Angeles Times Press and the Chicago Tribune Press all the right-wing newspaper chains were printing about him that he was a roue that he was a degenerate blah blah blah blah As it happened. He was married to uno Neil for the rest of his life very happily they had eight children together and

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

so the His marriage seemed to confirm everything that the the Hearst Press and the Los Angeles Times Press and the Chicago Tribune Press all the right-wing newspaper chains were printing about him that he was a roue that he was a degenerate blah blah blah blah As it happened. He was married to uno Neil for the rest of his life very happily they had eight children together and

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

But it seemed to confirm to the public at large that he was what the prosecution said he was.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

But it seemed to confirm to the public at large that he was what the prosecution said he was.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

But it seemed to confirm to the public at large that he was what the prosecution said he was.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Hedda Hopper loathed Chaplin for reasons both political and sexual. Hedda Hopper was extremely conservative. Hedda Hopper was one of the founders of the right-wing motion picture group that fomented the House Un-American Activities Committee. And she had also been abandoned by an older Rue husband as a young woman who left her high and dry with a young son.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Hedda Hopper loathed Chaplin for reasons both political and sexual. Hedda Hopper was extremely conservative. Hedda Hopper was one of the founders of the right-wing motion picture group that fomented the House Un-American Activities Committee. And she had also been abandoned by an older Rue husband as a young woman who left her high and dry with a young son.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Hedda Hopper loathed Chaplin for reasons both political and sexual. Hedda Hopper was extremely conservative. Hedda Hopper was one of the founders of the right-wing motion picture group that fomented the House Un-American Activities Committee. And she had also been abandoned by an older Rue husband as a young woman who left her high and dry with a young son.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Her young son became William Hopper who played Paul Drake on the Perry Mason TV series. So this chaplain rang all these alarm bells in her head for reasons both political and sexual. And Hedda Hopper, this was a story Hedda Hopper had been waiting for her entire journalistic career.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Her young son became William Hopper who played Paul Drake on the Perry Mason TV series. So this chaplain rang all these alarm bells in her head for reasons both political and sexual. And Hedda Hopper, this was a story Hedda Hopper had been waiting for her entire journalistic career.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Her young son became William Hopper who played Paul Drake on the Perry Mason TV series. So this chaplain rang all these alarm bells in her head for reasons both political and sexual. And Hedda Hopper, this was a story Hedda Hopper had been waiting for her entire journalistic career.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

So she called another friend of hers who was a columnist for the New York Daily News based in Hollywood and they got interviews with Joan Barry and they they began Flooding the Prince with interviews with Joan Barry about how she'd been used Cast aside impregnated etc. Etc by Charlie Chaplin the feds got interested and he was prosecuted on the Mann Act

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

So she called another friend of hers who was a columnist for the New York Daily News based in Hollywood and they got interviews with Joan Barry and they they began Flooding the Prince with interviews with Joan Barry about how she'd been used Cast aside impregnated etc. Etc by Charlie Chaplin the feds got interested and he was prosecuted on the Mann Act

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

So she called another friend of hers who was a columnist for the New York Daily News based in Hollywood and they got interviews with Joan Barry and they they began Flooding the Prince with interviews with Joan Barry about how she'd been used Cast aside impregnated etc. Etc by Charlie Chaplin the feds got interested and he was prosecuted on the Mann Act

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

The Mann Act involved transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes and was originally passed decades before to stamp out prostitution. Well, the chaplain hired Jerry Giesler as his defender, his defense attorney, and the jury deliberated for an hour and found him not guilty. Well, that was the end of the Mann Act prosecution. And then came the paternity suit.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

The Mann Act involved transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes and was originally passed decades before to stamp out prostitution. Well, the chaplain hired Jerry Giesler as his defender, his defense attorney, and the jury deliberated for an hour and found him not guilty. Well, that was the end of the Mann Act prosecution. And then came the paternity suit.