Subject: Divorced women - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce (left) with a broken arm sitting on a bench in the courthouse with two unknowns. Joyce was being sued for $20,000, but the judge ruled that they money was rightfully hers, it was an advance payment on her salary for appearing in the picture "Sky Rocket"
Date:: December 21, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Elsie Hinman Bush entering court during a divorce battle with her ex-husband, former Superior Court Judge Guy F. Bush. The couple was married on Christmas Day 1939 in Las Vegas then separated three days later. Judge Bush filed for divorce against his wife citing a charge of cruelty then Mrs. Bush counter-filed with the same charge; neither party described their charge. It was the 3rd marriage for Mrs. Bush and the 4th for Judge Bush.
Date:: March 4, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Mrs. Elsie Hinman Bush in court during a divorce battle with her ex-husband, former Superior Court Judge Guy F. Bush. The couple was married on Christmas Day 1939 in Las Vegas then separated three days later. Judge Bush filed for divorce against his wife citing a charge of cruelty then Mrs. Bush counter-filed with the same charge; neither party described their charge. It was the 3rd marriage for Mrs. Bush and the 4th for Judge Bush.
Date:: March 4, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of Clara Callahan Ates, ex-wife of comedian Roscoe Ates, famous for his stutter, accompanied by her daughter Dorothy Ates at a court hearing. Both women are dressed in dark coloured high necked outfits with lopsided hats as they attempt to recover Mrs. Ates' lost watch. Dorothy Ates was later cropped out of the picture used in the newspaper article.
Date:: Nov. 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Gale Sisters Grace Court," Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug 1935.
Date:: August 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mildred Herd Beebe claims that in the 452 weeks since she divorced her husband Richard L. Herd has never paid one installment of alimony.
Date:: July August 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Bernice Moran testifies that her husband Lee Moran would show up twelve hours after the time that he said he would be home by.
Date:: July 24, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Beatrice Keltz's sister Lillian corroborated her testimony against husband Maurice Keltz, whom she claims neglected her emotionally and would abandon her to go out and play card games. Beatrice was granted her divorce and a settlement of $980.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Witness in the 1931 double murder trial of David H. Clark and Herb Spencer, Lucille Fisher Zavitz has obtained a divorce from her abusive husband.
Date:: October 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Helen Ann Rork Light was born in Darien, Connecticut, the daughter of Samuel Edwin, Hollywood film producer for First National Studios, and Helen Ann Rork. She appeared in silent films, including The Notorious Lady (1927), The Blonde Saint (1926) and A Texas Steer (1927), with stars of the era, including Rudolph Valentino and Will Rogers, who also was her godfather. She was married to J. Paul Getty, Douglas Wilson of Memphis, San Francisco attorney Jay Ross, Joseph Mclnemey, and Dr. Rudolph Light, professor of neurosurgery at St. Catherine's College of Oxford and heir to the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co.
Date:: January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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