Joan Barry
Joan Barry was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States on May 24th, 1920 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 86, Joan Barry biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Joan Barry was an American actress best known for winning a paternity suit in California in 1943 against Charlie Chaplin after an affair between the two resulted in two terminated pregnancies and the subject of the suit, a live-born girl named Carol Ann.
Chaplin supported the girl financially until her 21st birthday.
Early life
Born Mary Louise Gribble on May 24, 1920,: 197 in Detroit, Michigan, to James Alfred Gribble and Gertrude Elizabeth McLaren. The Gribble family moved to New York City before June 1925. James Gribble worked as a machinist in Detroit, and as car salesman in New York. Another daughter, Agnes, was born in 1923. James died by suicide on December 10, 1927. Gertrude later married a man named John Barry. Barry went to California in 1938 to pursue an acting career.: 197
Personal life
Barry married Russell Seck, a railway clerk, in 1946. The couple had two sons, Russell and Stephen. The boys moved to Ohio with their father in 1952.
The following year, when she was 33, Time noted that Barry was "admitted to Patton State Hospital... after she was found walking the streets barefoot, carrying a pair of baby sandals and a child's ring, and murmuring: 'This is magic'." After her mother was committed, Carol Ann went to live with a legally appointed guardian and changed her name. She continued to receive monthly payments from Chaplin until her 21st birthday.
Barry died in New York City on October 1, 2007, at the age of 87.