Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Resource Type: still image / Location: Beverly Hills (Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections / Subject: Lifestyle - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Bedroom in the house of actor John Gilbert, probably shortly after his death in 1936. The house was located at 1400 Tower Grove Road.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Tree-lined roadway on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Connie Kreinman, Naomi Jaffe, and Allan Bernard reading "The Book About Ships" on a couch. The children’s parents are members of the Beverly Hills Chapter of Hadassah. These three, along with several other members’ children, put on a play about the difference between good and bad food during the club’s Child Welfare Day held at the Beverly Hills Athletic Club. During the event, members paid an extra 9 cents for their lunches which went toward providing soup, salad, fruit, and milk for Palestine children.
Date:: March 2, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Exterior view of the house of actor John Gilbert in Beverly Hills taken from the cactus garden. Formerly located at 1400 Tower Grove Road, the house has been demolished.
Date:: January 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Tennis court on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Overlook on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Completely furnished miniature four-room old English house on 4-year-old Gloria Lloyd’s private estate, which was created by her parents, film comedian Harold Lloyd and Mildred Harris Lloyd, at the summit of the family’s sixteen acre home. In addition to the house, Gloria’s estate includes: a miniature stable for her pony and cart, a miniature wishing well and a slide, swing and sand pile.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View towards fountain, stairway and house on the sixteen-acre estate of film comedian Harold Lloyd and his wife, Mildred Harris Lloyd in Beverly Hills.
Date:: [1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Beverly Hills home of businessman and millionaire William F. Gettle, at 723 North Linden Drive. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of from his Arcadia ranch house during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: [circa May 10, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chess set on a table in the Beverly Hills house of actor John Gilbert, probably shortly after his death in 1936. The house was located at 1400 Tower Grove Road.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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