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Description:: Lawsuit involved theatrical agent Leo Morrison suing the actor George Brent for unpaid commissions. Morrison lost the case, May 22, 1935.
Date:: May 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Alfred C. Read had an extra-marital affair with actress Claire Windsor. His wife, Marian Read, sued Windsor for "balm" and ultimately divorced her husband.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A cropped version of this image appears with the article "Judge to Read Love Letters: Flaming Missives Issue in Fawcett Balm Case, Said to be from Mrs. Binney to Plaintiff's Husband, Court Will Decide Whether Jury Should See Them," Los Angeles Times, 20 Jul. 1920: A3. In the summer of 1929, June Fawcett sued Harriet Binney for $100,000 for causing alienation of affection. Binney was "asserted to have stolen the love of June Fawcett's husband Clyde. Love letters between Binney and Clyde Fawcett became corroborating evidence in the proceedings.
Date:: July 19, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In July 1935, Robert E. Thomas, an actor, claimed that he was the cast-off son of May Yohe and Putnam Bradley Strong, who was wealthy and socially prominent. Thomas had been adopted by E. R. Thomas, an apartment manager in Hollywood. In this letter, the writer, L. L. Levings, writing from Portland, Oregon, states that he has documenting that a wife of Strong had a child on September 1, 1908 and was divorced on April 25, 1910.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Text from negative sleeve: 6568. Marilyn Cantor. Traffic suit. (17 y.o. daughter of Eddie Cantor). 12/13/38. [stamped:] Jan [day illegible] 1939, L.A. Times photo by Gordon Wallace.
Date:: December 13, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Wallace, Gordon Charles, 1909-1992
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Portrait photograph of Millicent Sunday at the time that she was sued for alienation of affection by Olive Day. Ms. Sunday is seated on a chair in a garden or yard. She was the ex-wife of Billy Sunday, Jr., the son of evangelist Billy Sunday. Reported, with a different photograph taken the same day, in "DAMAGES ASKED OF MRS. SUNDAY: Alienation of George E. Day's Affections Charged Woman Seeks $50,000 in Suit Filed Yesterday Defendant Was Evangelist's Daughter-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1928: B6.
Date:: January 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Millicent Sunday at the time that she was sued for alienation of affection by Olive Day. Ms. Sunday is seated on a chair in a garden or yard. She was the ex-wife of Billy Sunday, Jr., the son of evangelist Billy Sunday. Reported, with a different photograph taken the same day, in "DAMAGES ASKED OF MRS. SUNDAY: Alienation of George E. Day's Affections Charged Woman Seeks $50,000 in Suit Filed Yesterday Defendant Was Evangelist's Daughter-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1928: B6.
Date:: January 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Millicent Sunday at the time that she was sued for alienation of affection by Olive Day. Ms. Sunday is seated on a chair in a garden or yard. She was the ex-wife of Billy Sunday, Jr., the son of evangelist Billy Sunday. Photograph (cropped to the face and flipped) appears with the article "DAMAGES ASKED OF MRS. SUNDAY: Alienation of George E. Day's Affections Charged Woman Seeks $50,000 in Suit Filed Yesterday Defendant Was Evangelist's Daughter-in-Law," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1928: B6.
Date:: January 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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