Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes. 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. Photograph caption dated February 12, 1932, reads "Mrs. Hancock Banning, right, president of the Assistance league, and Mary Pickford, a member of the board of directors, are shown having tea and chatting over plans for the Assistance league exchange which is furnishing employment for a large number of women who otherwise would be idle."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979 Banning, Hancock,--1892-1982--Family Assistance League of Southern California.--Anne Banning Auxiliary Motion picture actors and actresses--United States Women--California--Los Angeles Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles Group portraits Portrait photographs Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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