Sixteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald fights for her right to stay married, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Sixteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald fights for her right to stay married, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: September 26, 1935
Date: 1935-09-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Angered by Annulment, Dancer Quits Film Role," Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep 1935: A3.
After secretly marrying 31-year-old musician James Base and Hazel Fitzgerald, Anna's mother, petitioning the court to get the marriage annulled, Anna has resolved to leave California and move to New York.
A smiling Anna holds her coin purse.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 2305 - Anna (Hazel) Fitzgerald [stamped:] Sep 26 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Sixteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, whose mother caused the annulment of her marriage in Superior Court yesterday, who protests the annulment action. She announced after the court's action that she will quit dancing role in films.
Handwritten on negative: Anna (Hazel) Fitzgerald 9-25-35

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Fitzgerald, Anna Hazel 1918-1982
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Teenagers
Marriage--California--Los Angeles
Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_8723
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dgnnb
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Rights Country: US
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