Barbara Hunter, aviatrix, screenwriter, and film editor, leaving the Los Angeles County jail after an attempted suicide, Los Angeles, 1939

Item Overview

Title

Barbara Hunter, aviatrix, screenwriter, and film editor, leaving the Los Angeles County jail after an attempted suicide, Los Angeles, 1939

Date Created

October 19, 1939

Date

1939-10-19

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph related to "Cameraman's Wife Released Following Slashing of Wrists," Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct 1939: A1.
Barbara Hunter, also known as Barbara Hunter Dietz, is shown in a room with jail bars to her left. She wears a floppy hat and a herringbone overcoat over a plaid dress. She carries a handkerchief in her right hand and a clutch purse is looped over a left finger while holding her hat with her left hand. Bandages can be seen on her left wrist. She is smiling and looking down and away from the camera.
Barbara Hunter was married to the cameraman William Dietz. She was once a secretary for Thomas Edison, and later was a screenwriter and a film editor. She was one of the first 100 women in the US to get a flying license. She attempted suicide in October 1939.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 17538. [stamp] OCT 23 1939. Attempted Suicide. Barbara Hunter Dietz. -once secretary to Thomas Edison - got pilot license - Wife of Cameraman William Dietz. 10-19-39.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hunter, Barbara, approximately 1899-

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture editors--California--Los Angeles County
Secretaries--United States
Suicidal behavior--California--Los Angeles