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Title: Busby Berkeley suicide attempt
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated July 17, 1946 reads, ""Dance Director Busby Berkeley Treated for Slashed Wrists After Asserted Attempt to Take His Own Life."" Berkeley is shown in a police receiving hospital. He claimed he was despondent over the recent death of his mother.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00164158
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 1958
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/140846
Subject: Berkeley, Busby,--1895-1976
Motion picture producers and directors
Choreographers
Suicidal behavior
Hospitals
Nurses
Police
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950

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