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Title: Vilma Aknay sues Ernest Vajda, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: November 1934
1934-11
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.
Vilma sits with her hands folded under her chin and her purse on the table in front of her.
Photograph appears with the article, "Film Party Inquiry Today," Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov 1934: A1.
A $250,000 breach-of-promise suit filed against Hungarian Ernest Vajda by Aknay. Characters in relation to the suit who are being sought by the jury include witnesses Sari Fedak, Barbara Vajda, and Ernst Lubitsch.
Handwritten on negative: Vilma Akney
Text from newspaper caption: Vilma Aknay
Text from negative sleeve: AKNAY, VILMA ACTRESS
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11000
ark:/21198/zz002h8z3z
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actresses--Hungarian--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Aknay, Vilma, b. 1890 or 91
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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