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Title
Most important prop
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1959
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated January 2, 1959 reads "One of the most important props in 'Auntie Mame,' is the longitudinal cigaret (sic) holder which the zany Auntie manipulates throughout the hilarious film at the Chinese Theater. Here at a pre-opening shindig Rosalind Russell demonstrates the holder's proper uses to UPI's Hollywood correspondent Vernon Scott (right) and Valley Times drama editor Len Boyd." Grauman's Chinese Theater, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument is located at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00141633
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d050_f16_i17
CARL0005733287
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/70460
Subject
Russell, Rosalind
Scott, Vernon,--1923-2002
Valley Times (Firm)--Employees
United Press International--Employees
Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Editors--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
Journalists--United States
Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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