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Title
Worth Crouch, stuntman, riding his palomino, Thunder, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued
December 1938
1938-12
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.
Reported, with a different photo, in "GREAT WESTERN COMIC STARTS' IN 'TIMES' SUNDAY," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1938: 3.
Worth Nelson Crouch was a stuntman. He is known for his work on We've Never Been Licked (1943), Mystery Sea Raider (1940) and Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943). He died on location during filming of We've Never Been Licked (1943) in Calabasas.
Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times.
Text from negative sleeve: 15724- [stamp] FEB 21 1939. Worth Crouch-Stuntman + rodeo star. Times Red Rider- (+Palomino Stallion, Thunder)(Promotion for New Times Comic). 1938.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14855
ark:/21198/zz002j8hsf
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Stunt performers--California--Los Angeles
Crouch, Worth, 1915-1943
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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