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Title: Ray Bourbon enters court
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Wearing a black and white nylon dress, false eyelashes, heavy perfume and 5 o'clock shadow, Ray (or Rae) Bourbon enters Beverly Hills Municipal Court on August 1, 1956, to deny he (or she) was guilty of impersonating a woman. He produced a certificate from a Mexican doctor changing his sex. The entertainer and 14 dogs live in a Venice trailer court.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00055342
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9718.
CARL0000057240
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19715
Subject: Bourbon, Rae
Beverly Hills Courthouse (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Courts--California--Beverly Hills
Actors and actresses
Female impersonators--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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