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Title: Gladys Jeffers petitions custody of Skippy, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1938
1938-12
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.
Mrs. Jeffers sits at a table turning the pages of a white notepad with only one black glove on her hand.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Couple Battle Over Dog Actor," Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov 1938: 12.
Asta, also known as "Skippy" is a six-year-old fox terrier known for his roles in the Thin Man film series. His parents, Alvie M. Jeffers and Gladys Jeffers, are caught in a custody battle for the dog, whose earnings are estimated up to nearly $12,000.
Handwritten on negative: Gladys Jeffers
Text from negative sleeve: 15024 - Gladys Jeffers wife of Alvie, owners of Asta from Thin Man movies "Asta" Divorce Case L.A. TIMES PHOTO BY GORDON WALLACE 11/22/38 [stamped:] Dec [?] 1938
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11753
ark:/21198/zz002h8kgb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Dogs--California--Los Angeles
Jeffers, Gladys
Thin man
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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