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Title: Baroness Carla Suzanne Jenssen involved in courtroom drama, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 20, 1935
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.
Carla leans one elbow on the table, holding a sheet of paper between her fingers.
Photograph appears with the article, "Slap Dealt By Baroness," Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep 1935: A1.
Baroness Carla Jenssen was witnessed by a dozen people in Superior Judge McComb's court slapping her lawyer Robert Keltz across the face during a disagreement. She has gone to court suing R.-K.-O. Studios, Inc. for $750,000 for their use of several of her stories in motion pictures without her permission.
Text from newspaper caption: Baroness Carla Jenssen
Text from negative sleeve: 2242 - Baroness Carla Jenssen Danish writer Plagarism Suit vs. R.K.O. Studios 9-20-35 [stamped:] Sep 26 1935
Handwritten on negative: Baroness Carla Jenssen 9 - 20 -35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8675
ark:/21198/zz002dgm01
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Authors--Danish--California--Los Angeles
Jenssen, Carla Suzanne, Baroness, b. 1903 or 1904
RKO Pictures
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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