But there was a public spanking on set for Diana Barrymore (21) if the sources are correct.
Source: https://mainstreamspanking.wordpress.com
[...]about Diana Barrymore, daughter of John and part of the closest thing America had to theatrical ‘royalty’.
In 1942, she was making her second film with star billing, Between Us Girls, alongside Robert Cummings, and the story goes that she was given to such hilarious pranks as hitting Cummings across the shins with a length of metal pipe. Cummings responded, we are told, in a way that was demonstrative but perhaps not unreasonable within the norms of the time: he ‘taught her decorum by turning her over his knee and giving her a business-like spanking before the assembled company’.
That was how the story went years later in 1947. And it was brought out again in 1952 as part of a retrospective of her chequered career: ‘he lost his temper, turned her across his knee and gave her one of the soundest paddlings a young woman ever received’ – though not one which could be said to have had any lasting salutary effect, given that the occasion of the article was her being fired from three stage plays in rapid succession for offensive ad-libbing!
