Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: People and Actresses--American--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Actress Marsha Hunt, at right, poses for the camera with sister Marjorie.
Date:: [between 1932-1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Helen Fortescue Reynolds sits on chair. Reynolds was an American actress who appeared in films during the late 1930s and 1940s. She was also known by Helene Whitney, Helene Reynolds, and Joyce Gardner.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Helen Fortescue Reynolds sits on chair. Reynolds was an American actress who appeared in films during the late 1930s and 1940s. She was also known as Helene Whitney, Helene Reynolds, and Joyce Gardner.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Helen Fortescue Reynolds sits on chair. Reynolds was an American actress who appeared in films during the late 1930s and 1940s. She was also known by Helene Whitney, Helene Reynolds, and Joyce Gardner.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actor Paul Muni and his wife Bella at the 1937 Academy Awards. That year, Paul Muni's costar in "The Good Earth" Luisa Rainer won Best Actress for her role.
Date:: [circa March 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Phyllis Brooks at an airfield wearing a fur-lined coat and a fedora, with an airplane visible in the background. Brooks was originally known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl," and dated leading men such as Carey Grant and Howard Hughes before marrying a close friend of President John F. Kennedy, Congressman Torbert Macdonald.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Clara Bow poses on a pushcart laden with luggage, apparently about to embark on a journey on the Santa Fe Railway.
Date:: [between 1925-1940?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, holds the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women while Minnie Barton watches. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. A group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also in attendance were Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford, and Chief Davis. 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.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Gloria Swanson, silent film actress, holds the burning mortgage to the Bide-A-Wee home for women while Minnie Barton watches. Swanson helped Minnie Barton, home founder, pay the mortgage by sending $100 a month for several years. A group gathered to burn the mortgage in celebration of completing payment on the home set up by Barton to help working mothers. Also in attendance were Mary Brill, president of the Big Sister League, Superior Judge Georgia Bullock, Mrs. Robert Ladd Gifford, and Chief Davis. 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.
Date:: January 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mae West (August 17, 1893–November 22, 1980) sitting in court during questioning about profits earned from her role in the movie "She Done Him Wrong." Writer Mark Linden accused West of failing to provide half of the profits she earned from selling his play to Paramount in order to produce the film. The judge ruled that West did not owe the writer any of the additional money she received as salary for her role as an actress. West was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter.
Date:: February 20, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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