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Witness Dorothy Dunbar (Dorothy Wells Lawson) with Mr. and Mrs. Lou Smith, Los Angeles, 1939

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Title: Witness Dorothy Dunbar (Dorothy Wells Lawson) with Mr. and Mrs. Lou Smith, Los Angeles, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: January 13, 1939
1939-01-13
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Promoters Get Aid at Trial," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan 1939: A10.
Dorothy Wells Lawson has been called to testify in Superior Judge Frank M. Smith's court. C. Ray Gilliland and Ralph Goetz have been accused of swindling Mrs. Jeanne Haskell out of $20,000.
Mr. Sterling, actress Dorothy Dunbar, and Mrs. Sterling stand close together beside a stair rail.
Text from newspaper caption: Dorothy Wells Lawson, center, known in films as Dorothy Dunbar, who testified in Gilliland and Goetz case, is shown with Mr. and Mrs. Lou Sterling, also witnesses.
Text from negative sleeve: 15301 - L.to.R. Mrs Lou Sterling Dorothy Wells Lawson (actress aka Dorothy Dunbar) Lou Sterling (all defense witnesses in Jeanne Haskell swindle case) 1-11-39 [stamped:] Jan 13 1939
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14725
ark:/21198/zz002j8c98
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Sterling, Lou, (Mrs.)
Dunbar, Dorothy 1902-1992
Sterling, Lou
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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