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Title
Funeral for Ernie Kovacs
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Billy Wilder, left, and Jack Lemmon entering Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills to serve as pallbearers for Ernie Kovacs, who was killed while going home from a party given earlier by Wilder for the adopted baby of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Berle.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00022275
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 11202-Wilder, Billy.
CARL0000027209
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9329
Subject
Kovacs, Ernie,--1919-1962--Death and burial
Wilder, Billy,--1906-2002
Lemmon, Jack
Church of the Good Shepherd (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Beverly Hills
Funeral service--California--Beverly Hills
Celebrities--Death
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Catholic churches--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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