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Title: "Magnificent Obsession" premiere
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated April 21, 1954 reads, "It was a proud moment for Mrs. Kay Olsen (center), attending premiere with her son, Rock Hudson and Betty Abbott. The son has important stardom role in the film with Jane Wyman. To the delight of his mother, Hudson was cheered by sidewalk fans gathered to see celebrities arrive." The premiere is at the Westwood Village Theater.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00128095
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 12258
CARL0005503028
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34396
Subject: Hudson, Rock,--1925-1985
Hudson, Rock,--1925-1985--Family
Village Theater (Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Magnificent obsession (Motion picture : 1954)
Motion picture premieres--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Motion picture theaters--California--Westwood (Los Angeles)
Corsages--California--Los Angeles
Fur coats
Microphones
Mothers and sons--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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