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Hollywood fashion designer Edith Head working on a wedding gown for Dick Tracy comic strip's Gravel Gertie, 1946

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Title: Hollywood fashion designer Edith Head working on a wedding gown for Dick Tracy comic strip's Gravel Gertie, 1946
Date Created and/or Issued: August 17, 1946
1946-08-17
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: SNIP, SNIP-- Edith Head is rushing a wedding gown for Gravel Gertie in anticipation of her marriage to B.O. Plenty. Here the Hollywood fashion designer uses Times Reporter Kendis Rochlen for fitting as she rushes gown.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b1_42453
ark:/21198/zz0002qq9c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Arts
Gertie, Gravel (Fictitious character)
Women in the motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles County
Women costume designers--California--Los Angeles
Reporters and reporting--California
Rochlen, Kendis
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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