The troubles stemmed from his affair with an aspirant actress named Joan Barry, with whom he was involved intermittently between June 1941 and the autumn of 1942.
==== Pravne težave in Oona O'Neill ====V sredini štiridesetih let se je Chaplin zapletel v vrsto sojenj, ki so mu vzeli večji del časa in so močno vplivali na njegovo javno podobo.