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Caption dated February 6, 1956 reads, "History was made in Hollywood last Saturday when the five-day week came into operation and to commemorate the occasion Mickey Grant, a carpenter at Fox studios, built a coffin and had painter Jack Jancick paint it. From the set of 'Hilda Crane,' cameraman Joe MacDonald, head grip Frank Corey, director Philip Dunne, starts Jean Simmons and Guy Madison and head gaffer Les Everson assist in the ceremony."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Dunne, Philip,--1908-1992 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--Employees Motion picture actors and actresses--United States Camera operators--United States Coffins--California--Los Angeles Motion picture producers and directors--United States Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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