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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

Description:: Louis B. Mayer, film producer and studio executive at MGM, pitches a baseball in front of a crowd of spectators. Mayer served as studio boss at MGM and produced films with stars like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Katharine Hepburn.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Howard Hughes in court during the inquest for the traffic death of Gabe S. Meyer. Hughes struck Gabe S. Meyer with his automobile. Meyer died from the injuries sustained. A jury found the pedestrian's death accidental and exonerated Hughes.
Date:: July 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Herbert John Yates (second from right, smoking cigarette), founder and president of Republic Pictures, standing with three unknown men. Yates was head of Republic Pictures from 1935-1959
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Herbert John Yates, founder and president of Republic Pictures. Yates led Republic from 1935-1959
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Herbert John Yates, founder and president of Republic Pictures. Yates led Republic from 1935-1959
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Film stars Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, and producer Louis B. Mayer walking to Jean Harlow's funeral service. Harlow, known by many as "Baby," died suddenly of renal failure at age 26.
Date:: June 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Film star Myrna Loy and her producer husband Arthur Hornblower Jr. walking to Jean Harlow's funeral service. Harlow, known by many as "Baby," died suddenly of renal failure at age 26.
Date:: June 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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

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