Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Film producer John W. Considine, Jr., Los Angeles, ca. 1920s (?)

Description:: Hollywood film producer John W. Considine, Jr. poses for a photograph, seated with his arms folded.
Date Created:: [circa 1920s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Director Robert Vignola testifying in court, Los Angeles, 1930

Description:: Motion picture director Robert Vignola testifies in court, likely for a civil case involving the estate of Rudolph Valentino.
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Lester F. Scott, 1930 or 1935

Description:: Lester F. Scott [movie producer?] seated, wearing a double-breasted suit and smoking a pipe
Date Created:: [1930 or 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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 Created:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Louis B. Mayer pitches a baseball in front of a crowd of spectators, Los Angeles, 1930s

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 Created:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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 Created:: July 29, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Film magnates Leo F. Forbstein, Hal Wallis, W. M. Koenig, Sam Bischoff, and Herman Politz engage in some reckless golfing, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Herman Politz lies on his back holding a golf tee with a ball on top between his teeth. Leo Forbstein, Hal Wallis, and Sam Bischoff stand over him, golf clubs poised, as a crowd of people watch behind them.
Date Created:: February 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Director Roland West and Actress ZaSu Pitts, circa 1935

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 Created:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Director Roland West and Actress ZaSu Pitts, circa 1935

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 Created:: [circa 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Attorney Jerry Giesler, director Busby Berkeley, circa 1935

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people. Giesler was Berkeley’s lawyer.
Date Created:: [December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Busby Berkeley, mother, and lawyer Jerry Giesler in courtroom for Berkeley's vehicular manslaughter trial, Los Angeles, California, 1935

Description:: Possible motion hearing
Date Created:: [1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Busby Berkeley in court, circa 1935

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people.
Date Created:: [December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Busby Berkeley, mother, and lawyer Jerry Giesler in courtroom for Berkeley's vehicular manslaughter trial, Los Angeles, California, 1935

Description:: Possible motion hearing
Date Created:: [1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Attorney Milton Cohen, director Busby Berkeley, attorney Jerry Giesler, circa 1935

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people. Cohen and Giesler were Berkeley’s lawyers.
Date Created:: [December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dr. Paul Koretz, Louis B. Mayer, and Michael Balcon meet, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Michael Balcon hopes to return to England and produce films as good as those with American backgrounds, if not better. Representative lawyer of M.G.M. and Fox Paul Koretz observes that Hollywood became famous for motion pictures while Vienna, Austria, became famous for its' composers.
Date Created:: March 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Captain Wesley White demonstrates polo strategies to Charlie Farrell, Frank Borzage, and Johnny Mack Brown, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Captain White leans over the table wearing a white V-neck sweater and clenching a pipe between his lips. Borzage, Farrell, and Brown adjust the miniature horses and polo players.
Date Created:: May 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Choreographer and film director Busby Berkeley being carried into his manslaughter trial on a stretcher, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Choreographer and film director Busby Berkeley being carried into his manslaughter trial on a stretcher. Busby was on trial for manslaughter after he was involved in a car crash where two women, Ada von Briesen and Peggy Daley, died.
Date Created:: September 29, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Lieutenant Colonel Frank J. Baum, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Portrait photo of Frank J. Baum sitting in military uniform.
Date Created:: November 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Attorney Jerry Giesler, director Busby Berkeley, and attorney Milton Cohen, circa 1935

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people.
Date Created:: [circa December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Attorney Jerry Giesler, director Busby Berkeley, and attorney Milton Cohen, circa 1935

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people.
Date Created:: [December, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Attorney Milton Cohen and director Busby Berkeley, circa 1935

Description:: Photo likely related to trials and court appearances following Berkeley’s 1935 traffic accident that resulted in the death of three people.
Date Created:: [December, 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

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 Created:: 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

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 Created:: 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

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 Created:: December 18, 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

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 Created:: [December 26, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

James A. Timony, producer, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph of James A. Timony leaning on a desk. He is wearing a hat and a tuxedo, and is holding a coat under his right arm. Behind him there is a calendar displaying the days of December 1935.
Date Created:: December 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

James A. Timony denies producing an indecent show, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Vice Raiders Pounce on Hollywood Farce: JIM TIMONY, ARRAIGNED, DENIES SHOW’S INDECENY,” Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 1936: A8.
Date Created:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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 Created:: April 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Howard Hughes in court during the inquest for the traffic death of Gabe S. Meyer, Los Angeles, 1940

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 Created:: July 15, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Film stars Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Carole Lombard, and producer Louis B. Mayer walking to Jean Harlow's funeral service, Los Angeles, 1937

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 Created:: June 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Film star Myrna Loy with film producer husband Arthur Hornblower Jr. walking to Jean Harlow's funeral service, Los Angeles, 1937

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 Created:: June 9, 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

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 Created:: September 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Herbert J. Yates, founder and president of Republic Pictures, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

Herbert J. Yates, founder and president of Republic Pictures, with three unknown men, Los Angeles, 1940s

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 Created:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Herbert J. Yates, founder and president of Republic Pictures, Los Angeles, 1940s

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

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