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Description:: Film actor Clark Gable with his horse Beverly Hills at his ranch. Gable had been visiting the Federal Court in order to serve as a witness against Mrs. Violet Wells Norton and Jack L. Smith, who were charged with attempting to extort money from the actor.
Date:: [circa April 21, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Film actor Clark Gable speaking with his father W.H. Gable. Gable had been visiting the Federal Court in order to serve as a witness against Mrs. Violet Wells Norton and Jack L. Smith, who were charged with attempting to extort money from the actor.
Date:: [circa April 21, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A portrait of film actor Clark Gable. Gable had been visiting the Federal Court in order to serve as a witness against Mrs. Violet Wells Norton and Jack L. Smith, who were charged with attempting to extort money from the actor.
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Female wrestlers Clara Mortensen and Mrs. Dick Rutherford battling in the ring. Thousands of fans flocked to the Olympic Auditorium to watch the wrestling antics.
Date:: [circa June 13, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Peggy McDonald attends the funeral of actress Jean Harlow, who died of uremic poisoning at the age of 26. The funeral was held in the "Wee Kirk O' the Heather" chapel in the Forest Lawn Memorial cemetary in Glendale, California.Ms. McDonald befriended Harlow when they met on set, where McDonald worked as a hairdresser. She, along with three other women close to Harlow, dressed and styled the deceased actress for her funeral and subsequent burial.
Date:: June 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Female wrestlers Clara Mortensen and Mrs. Dick Rutherford battling in the ring. Thousands of fans flocked to the Olympic Auditorium to watch the wrestling antics.
Date:: [circa June 13, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York socialite Henry L. Satterlee. Satterlee was brought in for questioning as a suspect for the Inglewood Everett-Stephens murders. Albert Dyer, a crossing guard, later confessed to the crime.
Date:: [circa July 3, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Policeman milling around a shrine of flowers at film star Jean Harlow's home after her death. Harlow, known by many as "Baby," died suddenly of renal failure at age 26.
Date:: [circa June 9, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas, visiting Los Angeles during his campaign for President during the 1936 election. Landon was the Republican candidate against Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was running for re-election. Landon was defeated by a landslide.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society. Black Legion was an organization that had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and operated mainly in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. The organization targeted African-Americans and slayed Silas Coleman on May 25, 1935.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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