Subject: 3 selected / Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Entertainer Eddie Cantor (left) and producer Samuel Goldwyn, defendants (along with Jack Robbins, music publisher) in a copyright suit brought by James J. Donnelly, a Hollywood composer. Donnelly is claiming $100,000 in damages because he wasn't given credit for the use of the song "When My Ship Comes In" in a recent picture.Note: image is mislabeled in the system as 9358, it should be 9258
Date:: April 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: West testifies at grand jury hearings to determine Todd’s cause of death. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nance was Los Angeles Country Coroner 1921-1945. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
Date:: December 18, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people. Giesler was Berkeley’s lawyer.
Date:: [December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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