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. The late Mrs. Alexander was frustrated over several failed screen tests she had taken, which provoked a fight with her husband that culminated in two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. She died the following day at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Alexander's business manager Vernon D. Wood called to deliver the message to Mrs. Alexander's father. Photograph appears with the article, "Actor Tells Wife Death," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec 1935: A1. Ross fidgets with his hands, sitting beside his late wife's father, who holds a glove and looks worriedly into the camera. Text from newspaper caption: Dr. William Freile, left, who yesterday heard a Coroner's jury describe the death of his daughter, Aleta Alexander, as suicide. Show with him is Ross Alexander, screen actor, and husband of the dead woman. Text from negative sleeve: 4027 - Vernon D. Wood (Biz Mgr of Ross) Ross Alexander (actor husband) Dr Wm Friele (father) Chas W. Ostrom (police comm.) Det Lt Saunderson Inquest (Aleta Freile ie? Alexander shooting) 12-12-35 Handwritten on negative: L 2 R. Dr Wm Freile Ross Alexander 12 - 12 - 35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13031 ark:/21198/zz002hn51r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fathers--California--Los Angeles Actors--American--California--Los Angeles Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles Freile, William, (Doctor), 1872-1939 Alexander, Ross, 1907-1937
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