Image / Jean Roberson divorces her unemployed husband, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Jean Roberson divorces her unemployed husband, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1936
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Actress Divorces Man She Avers "Wasn't Sap"," Los Angeles Times, 05 Feb 1936: A1.
Jean sits on the witness stand while the judge watches her from his bench.
Mrs. Roberson's former husband Lester K. Roberson ascertained that "only saps work" making Jean work to support herself and their baby, 2-year-old Robin Lee Roberson.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Jean Roberson 2-4-36
Text from negative sleeve: 3535 - Mrs Jean Roberson (actress) Divorcee 2-4-36 [stamped:] Feb 7 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12571
ark:/21198/zz002hmm5n
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California
Roberson, Jean
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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