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Title: Norma Shearer testifies for sister
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Photograph included in the Exhibit: All Rise! Hollywood & the Herald Go to Court.
MGM star Norma Shearer appears in divorce court to testify for her sister Athole, who was too ill to attend the proceedings in person. The resulting divorce ended Athole's twelve-year union with director Howard Hawks. Photograph dated December 6, 1940.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00112809
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1763
CARL0005232876
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33894
Subject: Shearer, Norma,--1902-1983
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Trials (Divorce)--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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