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Title
Boost benefit premiere of Movieland Wax Museum
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
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.
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.; Movieland Wax Museum operated from May 4, 1962 until October 31, 2005.
Photograph caption dated May 1, 1962 reads "William T. Kirk, Mary Pickford and George Bagnall (left to right) represent Motion Picture Relief Fund, which will benefit from premiere on Friday."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106835
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1009
CARL0005337321
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31778
Subject
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979
Motion Picture Relief Fund, inc
Movieland Wax Museum (Buena Park, Calif.)
Museums--California--Buena Park
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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