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Title: I Love Lucy' stars sign $8,000,000 contract!
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: White, Ben
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 February 18, 1953 reads, "Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, stars of the 'I Love Lucy' television show and Herald-Express comic strip, beam their best $8,000,000 smiles today as they sign new TV contract which calls for that much money over a two and a half year period. Looking on are Harry Ackerman (left), CBS executive, and Harry W. Chesley Jr., of the sponsoring Philip Morris Co."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106643
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5029
CARL0005305509
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33917
Subject: Ball, Lucille,--1911-1989
Arnaz, Desi,--1917-1986
Philip Morris and Company--Employees
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc.--Employees
I love Lucy (Television program)
Entertainers--United States
Actors--United States
Actresses--United States
Contracts--California--Los Angeles
Couples--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Television programs--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Publicity photographs
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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