Image / Mrs. Mickey (Ava Gardner) Rooney wins divorce

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Title: Mrs. Mickey (Ava Gardner) Rooney wins divorce
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
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 May 20, 1943 reads, "Says young star 'just wasn't made for marriage.'" Gardner claimed in court that Rooney was something of a mamma's boy, and that he left her alone for long periods of time. She demanded no monetary awards, but did receive title to a car, furs and jewelry.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106700
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9416
CARL0005328965
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31737
Subject: Gardner, Ava,--1922-1990
Gardner, Ava,--1922-1990--Divorce
Rooney, Mickey--Divorce
Trials (Divorce)--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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