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Four-year-old child actress Darla Hood with studio contract and pen, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Four-year-old child actress Darla Hood with studio contract and pen, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 22, 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.
A young girl, 4-year-old Darla Hood, stands on top of a wooden table, wearing matching outfit of a light-colored coat, hat, and shoes. Her scarf is polka-dotted. On one arm she carries what appears to be her contract, and on the other an ink pen. A door is seen in the background. Hood had just signed a contract to be the lead in a series of movies produced by Hal Roach Studios, Inc.
Related to article, "Four-Year-Old Girl to Become Leading Lady" [Los Angeles Times, October 23, 1935]
Handwritten on nitrate negative: Darla Hood, 10-22-35
Text from newspaper caption: Leading Lady, A leading lady's role at the age of 4 years was the prospect of little Darla Hood yesterday when Judge Wood approved contract for film work. Her father is [a]banker Leedey, Okla. ["Four-Year-Old Girl to Become Leading Lady," Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 1935
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2613-- Darla Hood - 4 yrs, 10-22-35, contract approval, [STAMPED:] OCT 29 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9112
ark:/21198/zz002dh42r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Child actors--California--Los Angeles
Contract negotiations--California--Los Angeles
Hood, Darla, 1931-1979
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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