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Carmen Barnes during a visit to Judge McComb to obtain her acting contract, Los Angeles, 1931

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Title: Carmen Barnes during a visit to Judge McComb to obtain her acting contract, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: March 6, 1931
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Court First Stop on Road to Fame," Los Angeles Times, 07 Mar 1931: A6.
Carman sits forward and looks directly into the camera, leaning over the back of her chair.
The date from the negative sleeve and the date from the newspaper that the photo is pictured in differ.
The Nashville teenager appeared in Superior Judge McComb's court with her parents to have her contract sorted out to act for Paramount Pictures.
Text from negative sleeve: BARNES. CARMEN AUTHOR 1929
Text from newspaper caption: CARMEN BARNES ROXANNE CURTIS
Handwritten on negative: Carmen Barnes
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1158
ark:/21198/zz002dbk2s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Authors--American--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Contract negotiations--California--Los Angeles
Paramount Pictures
Barnes, Carman, 1912-1980
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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