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Title: Funeral for young actress killed on movie set
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
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 also used for articles dated August 1, September 30, and December 2, 1982, as well as May 30, 1987.
Photograph caption dated July 28, 1982 reads, "'Twilight Zone' director John Landis and wife Deborah place flowers on coffin of 6-year-old Renee Chen." Renee Shin-Yi Chen was fatally struck by a helicopter while working on the film. Her graveside funeral, shown here, took place at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094076
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b001_f3_i8
CARL0005031841
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30027
Subject: Chen, Renee Shin-Yi--Death and burial
Landis, John,--1950-
Landis, Deborah Nadoolman
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries (Glendale, Calif.)
Coffins--California--Glendale
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Glendale
Cemeteries--California--Glendale
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Motion picture producers' and directors' spouses--United States
Costumes
Glendale (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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