Image / Helen Wilkinson comforts Dorothy Mackaye during murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: Helen Wilkinson comforts Dorothy Mackaye during murder trial, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: May, 1927
1927-05
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dorothy Mackaye, left, sits beside Helen Wilkinson, right. Wilkinson holds Mackaye's hand on her lap.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Case Promises New Sensation," Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1927: A2.
Dorothy Mackaye was on trial for suspected murder of her late husband, actor Ray Raymond, in 1927.
Text from negative sleeve: MacKaye, Dorothy murder 1927
Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Mackaye Helen Wilkinson
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6172
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Wilkinson, Helen
Mackaye, Dorothy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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