Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Subject: Actresses--American--California / Date: 1935 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis holds a box with the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. The mortgage was set on fire by Gloria Swanson, silent film actress. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard. James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chief James Edgar Davis hands Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, the mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. The group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also pictured are Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, and Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford. Minnie Barton was the second woman to join the Los Angeles Police Department and also founded the Barton Home for girls in 1917. Gloria Swanson was an actress best known for her role as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard.James E. Davis James Edgar Davis was Los Angeles Chief of Police from 1926–1931 and from 1933-1939.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Marsha Hunt smiles as she receives a document from Judge Marshall McComb.
Date:: [between 1932-1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee holds her small dog by a train. Lee, originally named Rose Louise Hovick, worked in burlesque, starred in five Hollywood films, wrote for the New Yorker, and published two novels.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Possibly taken in relation to the investigation of actress Thelma Todd's death in December 1935. Todd's body was found in West's home where she was residing. Todd was a former co-star and close friend with Pitts and lover to West.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Possibly taken in relation to the investigation of actress Thelma Todd's death in December 1935. Todd was a former co-star and close friend with Pitts.
Date:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 28th Governor of California Frank Finley Merriam (back right) and actress/musician/politician Adele Arbo (back left) with five young women, presumably participants in a beauty contest. Contestants include (left to right); Sibyl D. Slinkard, Betty Meguire, Laura Kerr, Marjorie Owens, and Helen Gilbert. Photo may possibly have been taken at the San Bernadino Orange Show. Dates given for the photo are based on the dates of Merriam's tenure as Governor.
Date:: between June 2, 1934 and January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Evelyn Poe poses after her film contract with R.-K.-O. was approved by Superior Judge Wood.
Date:: July 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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