Peggy McDonald, Hollywood hairstylist, attends the funeral of close friend Jean Harlow. June 9, 1937.
Item Overview
- Title
- Peggy McDonald, Hollywood hairstylist, attends the funeral of close friend Jean Harlow. June 9, 1937.
- Date Created
- June 9, 1937
- Date
- 1937-07-09
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Peggy McDonald attends the funeral of actress Jean Harlow, who died of uremic poisoning at the age of 26. The funeral was held in the "Wee Kirk O' the Heather" chapel in the Forest Lawn Memorial cemetary in Glendale, California.Ms. McDonald befriended Harlow when they met on set, where McDonald worked as a hairdresser. She, along with three other women close to Harlow, dressed and styled the deceased actress for her funeral and subsequent burial.
- Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wee Kirk O' The Heather; McDonald, Jeanette; McDonald, PeggyAdditional note: Harlow funeral
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- McDonald, Peggy
- Location
- Glendale (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
People
Funeral rites & ceremonies--California--Glendale
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00288r14
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .