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Title: A gal's best pal: her tiger
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Dean, Gordon
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph article dated February 5, 1962 partially reads, "Looking at the top photo, the one showing Valley actress Paula Lane with her pet tiger, brings to mind... HER PET TIGER??!!... brings to mind the old, old gag (circa Joe Miller) about the guy who told his friend: 'I chust cross-bred un lion mit un canary.' 'Und vat did you get, Charlie?' 'Vell, I ain't shure but ven it speaks, py golly, I tink I better listen!' Vell, the luscious Miss Lane - who really, honest-to-goodness, has a pet tiger - has crossed her beauty with talent and wants to do more acting than the modeling she's now famous for (see other photos)." Note: Photograph caption reads, "As Miss Lane and her tiger's trainer got the nervous animal into position for this picture, the trainer cautioned Valley Times TODAY photog Gordon Dean: 'This cat and strangers don't always get along, so hurry and get your shot.' 'Tie that thing to an anvil,' Dean called from the next yard. 'I got the shot 10 minutes ago!'"; See image #00130729 for additional photo in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00130728
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d036_f2_i10
CARL0005520076
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/64901
Subject: Models (Persons)--California--San Fernando Valley
Women--California--San Fernando Valley
Tigers as pets--California--San Fernando Valley
Tiger--California--San Fernando Valley
Actresses--United States
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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