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. Alexander draws on a blackboard what appears to be a layout of his home and the scene of his wife's death, while Commissioner Ostrom watches. 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. Similar photograph appears with the article, "Actor Tells Wife Death," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec 1935: A1. Handwritten on negative: L2R Chas W. Ostrom Ross Alexander 12-12-35 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
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13034 ark:/21198/zz002hn549
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Widows Actors--American--California--Los Angeles Blackboards Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles Alexander, Ross, 1907-1937 Ostrom, Charles
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