Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated May 20, 1936 reads, "Mary Miles Minter, who reigned as the blonde queen of silent films, is shown in these candid camera studies listening to testimony at the trial of a suit in which her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, and her sister, Margaret Shelby Fillmore, seek to regain more than $236,000 invested from Miss Minter's earnings. The mother and sister are suing a brokerage house and Leslie B. Henry, investment broker, who was sent to San Quentin prison. Witnesses for the brokerage firm told of elaborate entertainment given Mrs. Shelby and her family after they were considered 'sewed up tightly for the house.' Attorneys say they're going to bring into the case the unsolved mystery murder of William Desmond Taylor, ace film director, and close friend of Miss Minter in the days when he guided her career on the screen."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Minter, Mary Miles,--1902-1984 Minter, Mary Miles,--1902-1984--Trials, litigation, etc Minter, Mary Miles,--1902-1984--Family--Trials, litigation, etc Trials (Embezzlement)--California--Los Angeles Embezzlement--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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