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Title: Sinatra at premiere of 'Porgy and Bess
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
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 was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated July 16, 1959 reads, ""Frank Sinatra escorts Dorothy Towne Webb to the premiere-charity supper. He later was one of the auctioneers of benefit items which brought fabulous prices. Proceeds go to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital."" Sinatra and Webb, formerly married to actor Jack Webb are pictured at the premiere of ""Porgy and Bess"" at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00164209
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 9085
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/141007
Subject: Sinatra, Frank,--1915-1998
Porgy and Bess (Motion picture)
Motion picture actors and actresses
Singers
Motion picture premieres
Evening gowns
Tuxedos
Pearls
Carthay Circle Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Carthay (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960

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