Image / [Betty Compson]

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Title: [Betty Compson]
Contributor: Hoover Art Company
Date Created and/or Issued: 192u
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2016-3464.
From the David Stoddard Atwood collection, T&D collection.
Bust-length portrait.
Kay Atwood;
Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in 1897 in Beaver, Utah. Began her career in vaudeville, playing the violin. Her work in films began in 1915; in 1921 set up her own production company. Continued to act up to 1948.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : prints ; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001603237CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Compson, Betty,, 1897-1974--Portraits
Women motion picture producers and directors--California--Los Angeles--Photographs
Actresses--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture producers & directors--California--Los Angeles
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Los Angeles

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