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. Photograph appears with the article, "Child Film Actors Hurt," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar 1936: A1. Alberta holds Dickie's face in her hands as the two sit side by side. Alberta wears a bandage over her left eye and Dickie has a bandage wrapped around his head. While in a car with their mothers driving to court for approval of a film contract when Dickie's mother Mrs. LaVerne Jones stopped at a stop sign located at Third and Figueroa Streets when William E. Bruner drove into their car, throwing the children to the floor of the car. Text from negative sleeve: 4414 - Alberta Dugan Dickie Jones child actors in accident on way to court for contract approvals Hurt in accident 3/17/36 [stamped:] Mar 19 1936 Handwritten on negative: Alberta Dugan Dickie Jones 3/17/36 Text from newspaper caption: Alberta Dugan played a new role yesterday when she bandaged the head of Dickie Jones following their injuries in a traffic accident. Both are film actors and were en route to court to seek judicial approval of motion-picture contracts.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13600 ark:/21198/zz002hntpr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles Child actors--California--Los Angeles Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles Dugan, Alberta, b. 1929 or 30 Jones, Dickie, 1927-2014
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