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Description:: Prominent figures in the motion picture industry: Frank Lloyd, Joseph M. Schenck, George Jessel, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer and Jesse Lasky seated together at a banquet table
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme for the forty-eighth Rose Parade was "Romance in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: George "Spanky" McFarland saluting in costume on top of a desk. "Spanky" won fame in the productions of "The Little Rascals."
Date:: [1936?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. A.J. Woodward plays the piano while Mrs. James A. Beck and Mrs. Yvonne Chrarton stand nearby. There is a large basket of flowers on top of the piano
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actor Ben Lyon on the witness stand during a trial for 36-year-old war veteran Albert F. Holland. Holland's sanity was questioned after he wrote more than 150 love letters to Lyon's wife, actress Bebe Daniels, and claimed to have married her in Mexico. During the case, Holland ran most of his own defense, including a lengthy cross-examination of Lyon. The jury ultimately found Holland to be insane and committed him to the state hospital.
Date:: January 4, 1933
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:: American actor and director Slim Summerville (right) with an unknown man. Summerville made the transition between silent to sound films. He was best known for his work in silent comedies but he also acted in dramas, such as All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and directed over 50 short films.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: American actor and director Slim Summerville (right) with an unknown man. Summerville made the transition between silent to sound films. He was best known for his work in silent comedies but he also acted in dramas, such as All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and directed over 50 short films.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: American actor and director Slim Summerville (right) with an unknown man. Summerville made the transition between silent to sound films. He was best known for his work in silent comedies but he also acted in dramas, such as All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and directed over 50 short films.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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