Director Roland West testifying at grand jury investigation into death of actress Thelma Todd, circa 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Director Roland West testifying at grand jury investigation into death of actress Thelma Todd, circa 1935
- Date Created
- [December, 1935 - January, 1936]
- Date
- 1935-12/1936-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
- Caption
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Text from archival nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Priester, Harvey; Schafer, R.H.W.; Whitehead, Mae
Text from original nitrate sleeve: West, Roland; Priester, Harvey; Schafer, R.H.W.; Whitehead, Mae
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Roland West, 12542
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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West, Roland, 1885-1952
Todd, Thelma, 1905-1935 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Entertainment
Grand juries
Legal
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002552k5
- 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 .