Actor Monte Hawley at a garden party, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Actor Monte Hawley at a garden party, Los Angeles, 1940s
- Date Created
- [1940s?]
- Date
- 1940/1949
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
- Monte Hawley was one of the most successful African American actors of his time. He got his start in Chicago with the Lafayette Players. From there he moved to New York, where he was a successful stage actor before moving to Hollywood where he found work in motion pictures. Hawley was born in Chicago in 1901, and died in New York City in 1950.
- Description
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Monte Hawley is pictured at left. The woman and the other man in the photograph are unidentified.
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Names
- Hawley, Monte
- Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Lifestyle
People - African American actors
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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YRLSC_gordonphotos_0163
Collection 1867 Box 1 Folder 6 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025p6g8
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted