Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Related to article, "Child Actors Seen in Recent Films," Los Angeles Times, October 13, 1935. A young girl, Mary Lou Weaver, sits in a reclined model pose facing left of the camera. Wearing a loose dance costume, she has her head tucked into her chest, with her hand on her chin. Weaver sits on a carpet with geometric designs, against a backdrop with what appears to be a rainbow or target. The young dancer was part of the Meglin Kiddies performing arts school, which was renowned for supplying Hollywood studios with a bevy of background child actors, singers, and dancers for their movies. The newspaper caption incorrectly names Weaver as Meglin Kiddie. Text from newspaper caption: Mary Lou Weaver, Six-year-old Meglin Kiddie who appears among eighteen young tap dancers in "Shipmates Forever," starring Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2562-- Mary Lou Weaver, child dancer, Copy, 10-13-35, [STAMPED:] OCT 2[?] Photograph caption: Mary Lou Weaver, 10-13-35
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_9022 ark:/21198/zz002dh0z8
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Youth People Dance--United States--1930-1940 Dancers Child actors--California--Los Angeles Arts Weaver, Mary Lou, 1929-2001
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