Mrs. Mamita Coleman Hayes Formes, Los Angeles, 1936

Description: Possibly related to the article, "Jail match annulment suit filed," Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 1936: A3.
Mamita Hayes married Herbert Formes on October 26, 1932 while he was imprisoned at the Los Angeles County Jail (and on route to San Quentin Penitentiary). Hayes filed a petition for annulment in November 1932, a suit was later filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in February 1936.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4837- Mrs. Mamita Coleman Hayes Formes (Formes) / dancer / Divorce / [stamped:] Apr 15
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Mamita C. Hayes Formes

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Hayes, Mamita C. (Mamita Coleman) b. circa 1904
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Portrait photographs
Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Divorce--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14077
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7kzj
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