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Title: Lamour as witness
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated December 10, 1953 reads, "Actress Dorothy Lamour helped actress Kay Williams after alleged beating, ready to testify in her behalf." Adolph Spreckles II was accused of beating wife Kay Williams so severely that she was hospitalized for ten days. The trial took place at the Santa Ana courthouse.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106253
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5997
CARL0005276829
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31281
Subject: Lamour, Dorothy,--1914-1996
Gable, Kathleen--Trials, litigation, etc
Old Orange County Courthouse (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Witnesses--California--Santa Ana
Wife abuse--California--Santa Ana
Women--California--Santa Ana
Trials--California--Santa Ana
Santa Ana (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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