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Title
Mary Pickford
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1947
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.
Photograph caption dated July 30, 1947 reads "Testifies at trial of film director's $1,653,750 damage suit, says movie profits are unpredictable." Pickford testifying at the breach of contract trial in which LaCava claimed she hired him to direct a film.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106810
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1009
CARL0005336665
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31763
Subject
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979--Trials, litigation, etc
La Cava, Gregory,--1892-1952--Trials, litigation, etc
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Trials--California--Los Angeles
Contracts for work and labor--United States
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Microphones
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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