Clara Phillips, accused murderer, photographed on film set, Los Angeles, 1922

Title: Clara Phillips, accused murderer, photographed on film set, Los Angeles, 1922
Date Created: July 14, 1922
Date: 1922-07-14
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Clara Phillips, (2nd from right seated) is group photograph taken on the set of a movie.
Clara Phillips, 28, murdered Alberta Meadows, 19, on July12, 1922. Philips believed Meadows was having an affair with Philips' husband. She was convicted of the murder and sent to San Quentin Prison. Phillips was paroled in 1935.
This photograph appears with the article, “Accused Woman Appeared on Local Revue Stage and as Bathing Beauty in Films: ACCUSED .. GIRL .. ONCE .. FILM .. ACTRESS; Beauty Earned Envy of Her Associates," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jul. 1922: I5.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Was Santa Monica Bathing Girl. Mrs. Clara Phillips, held on an indictment for murder, is shown in this group of film players and bathing girls seated second from the right. Mrs. Phillips's figure is that with a man's hand on her shoulder. Wycliff Hill is the man in the center with the checked cap."
Text from negative sleeve, Philips (sic), Clara

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11254
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h9869
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