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. Dorothy Wilson and fiance Lewis R. Ranson stand smiling side by side as they are poised at the counter with their license and a pen. On February 29th, Dorothy Wilson and Lewis Ranson Foster applied for a marriage license, but claimed that they had been engaged since last Christmas and that Miss Wilson had not proposed marriage the previous day, as is a common tradition for women to perform on the rare date. Photograph appears with the article, "Actress To Wed Writer," Los Angeles Times, 01 Mar. 1936: 5. Handwritten on negative: Dorothy Wilson Lewis Ranson Foster Text from negative sleeve: 3923 - LtR- Lewis Ranson Foster (scenarist) x Dorothy Wilson (actress) Marriage License 2-29-36 [stamped:] Mar 12 1936 Text from newspaper caption: Dorothy Wilson, film actress, and Lewis R. Ransom, film writer, obtained a license to marry on February 29-the proverbial day when girls have the right to propose. However, Miss Wilson denies that Leap Year played any part in their romance.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12936 ark:/21198/zz002hn1rp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Marriage licenses--California--Los Angeles Wilson, Dorothy, 1909-1998 Foster, Lewis R., 1898-1974
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