Title supplied by cataloger. Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born silent film actress, famously known as "America's sweetheart," co-founder of American Artists film studio, and one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Buddy Rogers was an actor and a jazz musician.; Malcolm Boyd is an American Episcopal priest and author. In the 1940s, he was on the rise in Hollywood and became a junior producer. Boyd went on to become an ordained Episcopalian priest and was prominent in the American Civil Rights and the anti-Vietnam War movements. In 1977 Boyd came out of the closet, becoming the most prominent homosexual clergy person to do so. Photograph caption dated May 7, 1950 reads "Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers are shown here with Malcolm (Mal) Boyd, their TV-radio production partner, who is leaving secular life and will immediately begin theological studies, according to an announcement made today. Boyd has been admitted as a postulant for holy orders in the Protestant Episcopal church."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;16 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979 Rogers, Buddy,--1904-1999 Boyd, Malcolm,--1923-2015 American Broadcasting Company Motion picture actors and actresses--United States Television producers and directors--United States Clergy--California--Los Angeles Jazz musicians--United States Women--California--Los Angeles Couples--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Microphones Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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