Witness Dorothy Dunbar (Dorothy Wells Lawson) with Mr. and Mrs. Lou Smith, Los Angeles, 1939

Item Overview

Title

Witness Dorothy Dunbar (Dorothy Wells Lawson) with Mr. and Mrs. Lou Smith, Los Angeles, 1939

Date Created

January 13, 1939

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Dorothy Wells Lawson has been called to testify in Superior Judge Frank M. Smith's court. C. Ray Gilliland and Ralph Goetz have been accused of swindling Mrs. Jeanne Haskell out of $20,000.
Mr. Sterling, actress Dorothy Dunbar, and Mrs. Sterling stand close together beside a stair rail.
Photograph appears with the article, "Promoters Get Aid at Trial," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan 1939: A10.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Dorothy Wells Lawson, center, known in films as Dorothy Dunbar, who testified in Gilliland and Goetz case, is shown with Mr. and Mrs. Lou Sterling, also witnesses.
Text from negative sleeve: 15301 - L.to.R. Mrs Lou Sterling Dorothy Wells Lawson (actress aka Dorothy Dunbar) Lou Sterling (all defense witnesses in Jeanne Haskell swindle case) 1-11-39 [stamped:] Jan 13 1939

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles

Names

Sterling, Lou
Dunbar, Dorothy 1902-1992
Sterling, Lou, (Mrs.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image