Josephine Mendes, recently divorced actress, measuring her small feet with a ruler, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Josephine Mendes, recently divorced actress, measuring her small feet with a ruler, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: September 18, 1935
Date: 1935-09-18
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of Josephine Mendes sitting on a table measuring her feet with a ruler. There is a typewriter and some boxes in the background.
This photograph appears with the article, “Cinderella Film Girl Freed: DECEPTION TALE WINS ACTRESS ANNULMENT,” Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep 1935: A3.
Caption: Newspaper caption: Josephine Mendes, claimant of Hollywood’s smallest feet, is shown here as she appeared in court yesterday to win annulment of her marriage to Joseph Y. Fernandez, with who she eloped to Mexico last March. Her shoes are size 1 B width.
Text from negative sleeve: 2174-Josephine Mendes, actress, smallest feet, Divorce, 9-17-35, [Stamped:] Sep 19, 1935.
Handwritten on negative: Josephine Mendes, 9-17-35.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8632
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dgjht
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