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Performer Billye Beck posing beside a birdcage and wearing a revealing robe, Los Angeles, circa 1924

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Title: Performer Billye Beck posing beside a birdcage and wearing a revealing robe, Los Angeles, circa 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1922-1924]
1922/1924
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Beck was known as "Billye Beck" and "Billy Beck." Reported in "Biltmore Has Only New Presentation," Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 1924: B27 and in "Carroll Revue Has Two Screen Players," Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 1924: A9. The latter article states "Miss Billye Beck is now at the Christie studios with a two-year contract. She also was a former Orpheum star. She was here two years ago in an act with that organization and was taken ill with appendicitis. After the operation she remained here, and soon became identified with the movies, first at the Hal Roach studios."
Handwritten on negative: Billy Beck
Text from negative sleeve: Beck, Betty.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3693_G353
ark:/21198/z1gj59t4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Entertainers--California--Los Angeles
Beck, Billye
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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