Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Item Overview
- Title
- Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935
- Date Created
- December 18, 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- West testifies at grand jury hearings to determine Todd’s cause of death. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nance was Los Angeles Country Coroner 1921-1945. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
- Caption
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Text from archival nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Nance, Frank, coroner
Text from original nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Nance, Frank, Coroner.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Coroner Frank Nance, Roland West, 12,521
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Subjects
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Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
People
Grand juries
Legal
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles - Names
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Todd, Thelma, 1905-1935
Nance, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1875-1950
West, Roland, 1885-1952 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
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uclamss_1387_12521-02
12521 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002552c2
- 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
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- 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 .