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Title: Brunettes and redheads protest
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Alexandra Commercial Photo Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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 August 6, 1953 reads, ""Brunettes and Redheads Protest. Could be a publicity gag, but here three shapely pickets parade before Grauman's Chinese Theater, where 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' is showing, and a huge cutout of blonde Marilyn Monroe. Pickets, left to right are Avis Kimball, Lillian Pacino, and Evelyn Bernard."
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036777
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1993
CARL0000039639
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11780
Subject: Monroe, Marilyn,--1926-1962--Portraits
Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Gentlemen prefer blondes (Motion picture)
Demonstrations--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Signs and signboards--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Picketing--California--Los Angeles
Sidewalks--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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