Vice-president Charles Curtis, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Shortridge at a Motion-Picture Academy banquet, Los Angeles, 1931

Item Overview

Title

Vice-president Charles Curtis, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Shortridge at a Motion-Picture Academy banquet, Los Angeles, 1931

Date Created

November 10, 1931

Date

1931-11-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Vice-president Charles Curtis is seated at the end of a banquet table at the Biltmore and appears to be writing on a piece of a paper. Beside him is Senator Samuel Shortridge. Behind him leaning on a piano is Louis B. Mayer, a film producer and studio executive at MGM. The two other standing men are unidentified. Reported in,"Award Dinner To Set Mark: Motion-Picture Banquet Attracting Thousands Vice-President Curtis to Be Guest of Honor Gov. Rolph to Come to Greet National Official," Los Angeles Times, 08 Nov. 1931: A2.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L. B. Myers, Sam Shortridge, Chas Curtis
Text from negative sleeve: Curtis, Charles. V.P.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Shortridge, Samuel Morgan, b. 1861
Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.049037

Latitude

-118.253628

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Banquets--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles
Vice presidents--United States