Louise Beavers, Leonard Reed, and Lee Gaines behind the Musart Theatre on the opening night of Two in a Bed, Los Angeles, 1940s

Title: Louise Beavers, Leonard Reed, and Lee Gaines behind the Musart Theatre on the opening night of Two in a Bed, Los Angeles, 1940s
Date Created: February 27, 1946
Date: 1946-02-27
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Summary: Jimmy Mundy was an arranger, composer, and jazz saxophonist. He worked with popular musicians such as Bennie Goodman, Count Bassie and Earl Hines.
Leonard Reed started his career as a dancer, became an all-around entertainer. Later he kept a booking office in Hollywood.
Otho Lee Gaines was born in Houston, Texas in 1914. He was a composer and vocalist, and a founding member of the Delta Rhythm Boys. He died in Helsinki, Finland in 1987.
Louise Beavers was a well known African American film and television actress. She was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority and in 1976 was posthumously inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.
Description: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
This event is covered in the article, by Wendell Green "'Two in a bed' smash hit; set for long run: spicy boudoir farce hilarious laff hit ," Los Angeles Sentinel, 28 Feb.: 1946: 18.
Crowd behind the Musart Theatre (1320 S. Figueroa) on the opening night of Two in a Bed, staring Louise Beavers and Mae Johnson. Louise Beavers is at center in front, holding a bouquet of flowers. Leonard Reed is to the right of Beavers. Directly behind Beavers is Lee Gaines (with moustache). Jimmy Mundy, facing away, is wearing a top hat of the right.

Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Names: Beavers, Louise, 1902-1962
Mundy, Jimmy
Reed, Leonard
Mundy, Dorothy, 1909-1947
Gaines, Lee, 1914-1987
Location: California--Los Angeles
Longitude: 34.039966
Latitude: -118.268493
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People; Tap dancers--United States
African American musicians
African American motion picture actors and actresses--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: Collection 1867 Box 2 Folder 5
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ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025pd82
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