Image / Actress Lorraine Eddy MacLean with friend Alice Niesley, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Actress Lorraine Eddy MacLean with friend Alice Niesley, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 18, 1936
1936-03-18
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.
Alice and Lorraine stand arm-in-arm, gazing into the distance.
Actress Lorraine Eddy MacLean was granted a divorce from husband Douglas MacLean after five years of marriage, claiming he was aloof and lacked affection.
Photograph appears with the article, "Marital Tie Cut by Wife of M'Lean," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar 1936: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 4417 - (actress Lorraine Eddy) Lorraine Mac Lean Alice Niesley (witness) Divorce from actor Douglas MacLean 3/17/36. [stamped:] Mar 19 1936
Handwritten on negative: L2R Lorraine Mac Lean Alice Niesley 3/17/36.
Text from newspaper caption: Unhappiness and nervousness caused by her screen actor-husband's indifference brought a divorce to Mrs. Lorraine Eddy MacLean, left, yesterday. Shown with her in Superior Court is her witness, Alice Niesley.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13605
ark:/21198/zz002hntvb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Actresses--American--California
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Friendship
Divorced women
Niesley, Alice, 1903-1975
MacLean, Lorraine Eddy, 1904-1972
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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