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Sixteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald fights for her right to stay married, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Sixteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald fights for her right to stay married, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 26, 1935
1935-09-26
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, "Angered by Annulment, Dancer Quits Film Role," Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep 1935: A3.
After secretly marrying 31-year-old musician James Base and Hazel Fitzgerald, Anna's mother, petitioning the court to get the marriage annulled, Anna has resolved to leave California and move to New York.
A smiling Anna holds her coin purse.
Text from negative sleeve: 2305 - Anna (Hazel) Fitzgerald [stamped:] Sep 26 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Sixteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, whose mother caused the annulment of her marriage in Superior Court yesterday, who protests the annulment action. She announced after the court's action that she will quit dancing role in films.
Handwritten on negative: Anna (Hazel) Fitzgerald 9-25-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8723
ark:/21198/zz002dgnnb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Teenagers
Marriage--California--Los Angeles
Dancers--American--California--Los Angeles
Fitzgerald, Anna Hazel 1918-1982
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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