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. While appearing before Superior Judge Archibald to fight for the cancellation of her contract with Warner Brothers Pictures over the studio's failure to reinstate her after a bought with illness last November, actress Ann Dvorak took time out to meet five-year-old admirer Mary Jane Viall, daughter of the jury clerk. Ann Dvorak holds her arm around five-year-old Mary Jane while smiling and talking to the young girl. Photograph appears with the article, "Court Hears Dvorak Plea," Los Angeles Times, 05 Apr 1936: 8. Text from newspaper caption: Busy as she was yesterday in her suit to cancel her contract with Warner Brothers' Pictures, Ann Dvorak, film actress, found time to greet Mary Jane Viall, daughter of Mrs. Betty Viall, jury clerk of the court. Text from negative sleeve: 4836 - Ann Dvorak - actress Mary Jane Viall (daughter of Betty Viall, jury clerk) Civil Action (Warner Brother contract) [stamped:] April 15 1936 Handwritten on negative: Ann Dvorak Mary Jane Viall
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14076 ark:/21198/zz002j7kx1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles Contract negotiations--California--Los Angeles Viall, Mary Jane, b. 1931 Dvorak, Ann, 1912-1979
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