Wallace Beery Adopts Baby Girl — San Pedro News Pilot 25 November 1939 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

San Pedro News Pilot, Volume 12, Number 226, 25 November 1939 — Wallace Beery Adopts Baby Girl [ARTICLE]

Wallace Beery Adopts Baby Girl

HOLLYWOOD. UP) Wallace Beery’s adopted family has been doubled. The actor proudly presented to studio associates today chubby little Phyllis Ann Beery, seven months of age. for whom he said he would sign final adoption papers within two weeks. Beery said the child’s father was dead but that he had an agreement with its mother, a Los Angeles woman, that the baby would be returned to her at any time she desired. “Carol Ann, my eight-year-old adopted daughter, chose Phyllis Ann's name for her,” the actor grinned;