Walter Byron and four other actors posing with Mae Clarke, 1928

Description: Russell Gleason was James Gleason’s son. Leon Ames, also known as Leon Waycoff, later went on to be a founding member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
Six actors (five Americans, and the English actor Walter Byron) posing around an elegantly-set dining table. Clarke is in a reclining chair with tray tables holding her dining ware. Four of the male actors are offering her food; James [Jimmy] Gleason is listening to her forehead with a stethoscope.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Byron, Walter. Actor, 1928
Text from sleeve insert: L to R standing: Neil Hamilton, Walter Byron, Russell Gleason, Jimmy [James] Gleason, Leon Waycoff [Leon Ames]. Seated: Mae Clarke.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Ames, Leon, 1902-1993
Hamilton, Neil, 1899-1984
Gleason, James, 1886-1959
Gleason, Russell, 1908-1945
Byron, Walter, 1901-1972
Clarke, Mae, 1907-1992
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Actors--English--California--Los Angeles
Actors--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1302
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dbr1p
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