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Title
Actress Phyllis Brooks at an airfield, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued
[1937?]
1937
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Actress Phyllis Brooks at an airfield wearing a fur-lined coat and a fedora, with an airplane visible in the background. Brooks was originally known as the "Ipana Toothpaste Girl," and dated leading men such as Carey Grant and Howard Hughes before marrying a close friend of President John F. Kennedy, Congressman Torbert Macdonald.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Brooks, Phyllis
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Brooks, Phyllis
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00288htn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Actresses--American--California
Entertainment
Transportation
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
People
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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