Genre: news photographs / Location: United States / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Estelle Alexander, an American from San Francisco, married French aristocrat François Marie Constant Amédée Robert de Broglie (known as Prince Robert de Broglie) in the early 1900s, after which she was known as (Princess) Estelle de Broglie. They had a daughter, Jassemonde Estelle Siglinde de Broglie. According to newspaper accounts, they gave concerts, with Estelle, a soprano, singing, and Robert conducting the orchestra. The marriage was eventually annulled. Estelle continued to live in France and visited the United States in 1929 intending to regain U.S. citizenship. She died at Auschwitz in 1944, and is identified as "Estelle Alexander 1872" on the Mémorial de la Shoah (Shoah Memorial) in Paris. In documents, her name is sometimes given as Estella Dolores Alexander. Photo appears with the article: "CHIEF ATTRACTION FAILS TO APPEAR: PRINCESS SIDESTEPS ON SHOW Mrs. Astor Has to Put on Fashion Event Without Piece de Resistance," Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 1929: 3. In an earlier article: "PRINCE BUILDS TIMEPIECES: Scion of French Nobility, Visiting Here, Heads Works for Manufacturing Electric Clocks," Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1926: A8, this photograph is mis-identified as the wife of Robert de Broglie's brother, Jacques de Broglie.
Date:: circa 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Stock photo of convicted murderess Clara Phillips from her days as a chorus girl. In 1922 she was convicted of the murder of Alberta Meadows.
Date:: [between 1915-1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Actor Craig Reynolds sitting with actress and singer Gertrude Niesen in an aircraft cabin. They are smiling and looking at each other. Reynolds has his arm around Niesen's shoulder. Behind them is an unidentified smiling man and a door labelled "LAVATORY."
Date:: [March, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Actor John Halliday stands with his wife, Eleanor Griffith, and baby, John Jr., in front of a sign printed with "TEAM".
Date:: circa May 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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.
Date:: September 20, 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Actress and singer Gertrude Niesen standing at a telephone, holding the receiver to her ear.
Date:: [March, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Actress and dancer Thelma Mills Wunder seated at table and smoking a cigarette.
Date:: [July 29, 1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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