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Title: Busby Berkeley in court
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Notation written on the verso, dated September 24, 1936 reads, ""Joe Scott, Busby Berkeley, Mother of Berkeley in Background."" Berkeley was on trial for manslaughter after he was involved in a car crash where two women, Ada von Briesen and Peggy Daley, died in September 1935. Two trials resulted in hung juries, and he was acquitted after a third trial.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00164149
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 1958
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/140829
Subject: Berkeley, Busby,--1895-1976
Berkeley, Busby,--1895-1976--Trials, litigation, etc
Motion picture producers and directors
Choreographers
Criminal defense lawyers--United States
Trials (Murder)
Courtrooms
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940

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