(1936) Tags: RKO
Davis v. RKO Radio Pictures
Plaintiff claims to have been represented in the picture Bunker Bean in a libelous manner as an “object of public hatred, derision, ridicule, contempt and obloquy, individually and professionally.”
The allegations to the effect that defendants have produced and shown in motion picture theaters a picture known as “Bunker Bean,” wherein “plaintiff’s name `Cassandra’ or `Casandra’ a living person, is used” to present the plaintiff as “an illiterate, unkempt, slovenly, neglectful and low grade person; and as a cheat, faker, swindler, and surrounded with all the bunkum of witchery”; and that she was further represented as “a person of low and degraded morality and character and in a manner which did tend to hold her up to public ridicule and contempt.”