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Attorney Milton Cohen, director Busby Berkeley, attorney Stanley Barnes at opening of civil suit against Berkeley, December 26, 1935

Description:
Opening day of civil trial arising from a traffic crash in 1935 caused by Berkeley that killed three people. Cohen and Barnes were Berkeley’s lawyers. Berkeley settled the civil suites several days later but faced several criminal trials that ended in deadlocked juries.
Date:
[December 26, 1935]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Attorney Milton Cohen, director Busby Berkeley, attorney Stanley Barnes at opening of civil suit against Berkeley, December 26, 1935

Coco Chanel and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
French fashion designer Coco Chanel during a March 1931 visit, with Polish-American film producer Samuel Goldwyn, interlocked at the arms. They appear to be standing in front of a small home. The cropped image of Coco Chanel's face appears with the article, "Style Creator Tells How To Become Chic," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 1931: A1.
Date:
March 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Coco Chanel and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Los Angeles, 1931

Coco Chanel and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
French fashion designer Coco Chanel during a March 1931 visit, with Polish-American film producer Samuel Goldwyn, interlocked at the arms. They appear to be standing in front of a small home. The cropped image of Coco Chanel's face appears with the article, "Style Creator Tells How To Become Chic," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 1931: A1.
Date:
March 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Coco Chanel and film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Los Angeles, 1931

Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

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
Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

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
Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

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
Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

Eddie Cantor and Samuel Goldwyn, defendants in a copyright lawsuit, Los Angeles, April 29, 1936

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
Eddie Cantor and Samuel Goldwyn, defendants in a copyright lawsuit, Los Angeles, April 29, 1936

Film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, with older woman.

Description:
Famous and influential motion picture producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, photographed with an older woman, possibly his mother Sarah.Jesse Louis Lasky was born in San Francisco, California in 1880. He began a career as a vaudeville performer in his 20s, which led him to business in Hollywood. In 1913, he founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with his sister's husband Samuel Goldwyn and close friend Cecil B. DeMille. This company later joined with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company to release films as Paramount Pictures.
Date:
1930s?
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, with older woman.

Vice-president Charles Curtis, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Shortridge at a Motion-Picture Academy banquet, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:
Vice-president Charles Curtis is seated at the end of a banquet table at the Biltmore and appears to be writing on a piece of a paper. Beside him is Senator Samuel Shortridge. Behind him leaning on a piano is Louis B. Mayer, a film producer and studio executive at MGM. The two other standing men are unidentified. Reported in,"Award Dinner To Set Mark: Motion-Picture Banquet Attracting Thousands Vice-President Curtis to Be Guest of Honor Gov. Rolph to Come to Greet National Official," Los Angeles Times, 08 Nov. 1931: A2.
Date:
November 10, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Vice-president Charles Curtis, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Shortridge at a Motion-Picture Academy banquet, Los Angeles, 1931

Vice-President Curtis and Assistant Secretary of Navy Jahncke being received for the Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Photograph of United States Vice-President Charles Curtis and Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy from 1929-1933 Ernest Lee Jahncke being received by the Reception Committee at Los Angeles for the 10th Olympic Games. The committee consisted of [not limited to] Col. William May Garland, Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter and Motion Picture producer Louis B. Mayer. They all wear badges on their lapels that read, "Reception."
Date:
July 29, 1932
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Vice-President Curtis and Assistant Secretary of Navy Jahncke being received for the Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1932

Vittorio Mussolini arrives at Union Air Terminal from Rome and is greeted by his host, producer Hal Roach, and the press, Los Angeles, September 25, 1937

Description:
Vittorio Mussolini (at microphone right), Italian film critic, producer and son of dictator Benito Mussolini, is greeted by the press upon his arrival at Union Air Terminal. Mussolini is spending about two weeks in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter to study motion-picture manufacture in Culver City and visit friends in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. His host for the visit is film producer Hal Roach (at microphone left). Police expected a protest or demonstration from anti-Fascists at the arrival, but none occurred
Date:
September 25, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Vittorio Mussolini arrives at Union Air Terminal from Rome and is greeted by his host, producer Hal Roach, and the press, Los Angeles, September 25, 1937