Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: People and Actresses--American--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Aspiring actresses (left to right) Evelyn Poe, Phyllis Brooks, and Helen Parrish pose together after their film contracts with R.-K.-O. are approved by Superior Judge Wood.
Date:: July 30, 1935
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Enterence for Santa Claus Lane was at Hollywood and Vine Blvds in Hollywood. E. J. Shurtz was chairman of Santa Claus Lane Committee and manager of the Broadway Hollywood. Strasburg was also in a leadership position on the committee.
Date:: November 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Leatrice Gilbert (aka Leatrice Joy Gilbert) at father John Gilbert's estate auction bidding on items with help of aunt Irene Ryan
Date:: August 24, 1936
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

Description:: Testimony may be related to civil suit filed in Los Angeles in December 1935 against Betty Healy due to her role in a fatal accident in Missouri in 1934. Betty Healy was formerly married to vaudeville actor and Three Stooges original employer Ted Healy.
Date:: [December, 1935?]
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Young actress Marsha Hunt prepares to blindfold magician Charles Hoffman for his blind automobile race against fellow prestidigitator L.O. Gunn down Hollywood Boulevard. The event was held in conjunction with the Third Annual Convention of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians.
Date:: July 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Actress Rosalind Keith in court waiting to have a divorce granted from Willison Clarence Mellor. Keith, also known by the last name Culli, was an actress who retired from films in 1944.
Date:: February 16, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mae West (August 17, 1893–November 22, 1980) sitting in court during questioning about profits earned from her role in the movie "She Done Him Wrong." Writer Mark Linden accused West of failing to provide half of the profits she earned from selling his play to Paramount in order to produce the film. The judge ruled that West did not owe the writer any of the additional money she received as salary for her role as an actress. West was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter.
Date:: February 20, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Silent era actress Miriam Cooper Walsh on the witness stand, probably related either to her 14-year-long alimony dispute with ex-husband Raoul Walsh, film director and producer, or a later tax case concerning those alimony payments
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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

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