Mae West in court during questioning about earnings from her role in the movie "She Done Him Wrong," Los Angeles, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Mae West in court during questioning about earnings from her role in the movie "She Done Him Wrong," Los Angeles, 1940
- Date Created
- February 20, 1940
- Date
- 1940-02-20
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Mae West (August 17, 1893–November 22, 1980) in court during questioning about profits earned from her role in the movie "She Done Him Wrong." Writer Mark Linden accused West of failing to provide half of the profits she earned from selling his play to Paramount in order to produce the film. The judge ruled that West did not owe the writer any of the additional money she received as salary for her role as an actress. West was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter.
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: West, Mae.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Mae West.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- West, Mae
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
People
Entertainment
Legal
Actresses--American--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0027zs57
- 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 .