Actress Marian Nixon and her newly adopted son Christopher, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Actress Marian Nixon and her newly adopted son Christopher, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: April 23, 1936
Date: 1936-04-23
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: With a grin Marion balances Christopher on her lap, who shakes one of his toys about.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Film Couple Adopt Nevada Boy," Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr 1936: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4963 - Marion Nixon ACTRESS (Mrs Wm. Seiter) DIRECTOR + adopted son Christopher Nixon Seiter [stamped:] Apr 23 1936
Handwritten on negative: Marion Nixon
Text from newspaper caption: William Seiter, film director, and his wife, Marian Nixon, screen actress, are proud parents as their new son, Christopher Nixon Seiter, adopted last week in Las Vegas, Nev., has begun his rule of the household. Miss Nixon announced yesterday that she is leaving her screen career.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Nixon, Marian, 1904-1983
Seiter, Christopher Nixon, 1935-2003
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Infants--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California
Adoption--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14131
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7ntf
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Rights Country: US
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