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Virginia Bruce Gilbert contemplates the attempted kidnapping of her child, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Virginia Bruce Gilbert contemplates the attempted kidnapping of her child, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 26, 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.
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.
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.
Handwritten on negative: Virginia Bruce Gilbert.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12904
ark:/21198/zz002hn0nn
Language: English
Subject: Rocking chairs
Correspondence
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Gilbert, Virginia Bruce, 1910-1987
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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