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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Parts of the note she is holding can be read. It states, “…if Miss Bruce were in town. She asked…address and telephone number and also stated she was in….and miss Bruce is in great danger. Miss Hall asked…in regard to a child and she stated ‘Yes, in regard to…’…(referring to SUSIE ANN GILBERT, daughter of Miss Bruce)…Mr. Moore states that Miss Hall was given to believe that this warning of a kidnap attempt of Miss Bruce’s child, SUSIE ANN GILBERT”. This photograph may be associated with the article, “Guarded From Kidnap Threat: BRUCE HOME UNDER GUARD Film Writer Tells How She Received Warning on Kidnaping Plot,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 1936: A3. Handwritten on negative: Virginia Bruce Gilbert. Text from negative sleeve: 3872—Virginia Bruce Gilbert (actress + wife of late John Gilbert actor), Officers-OLouis + Glavey. Atl. Kidnapping of baby daughter Susan Ann Gilbert 2/2/36 Mar 6 1936.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12904 ark:/21198/zz002hn0nn
Language
English
Subject
Correspondence Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles Rocking chairs Gilbert, Virginia Bruce, 1910-1987
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