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Title
America's sweetheart receives award
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1960
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born silent film actress, famously known as "America's sweetheart," co-founder of American Artists film studio, and one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Photograph caption dated December 12, 1960 reads "The Beverly Hills B'nai B'rith, which annually gives a man of the year award, presented this year's plaque to former film star Mary Pickford. Miss Pickford is shown with the plaque and with actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., left, and Arthur Stebbins, who made the presentation." The plaque reads 'Mary Pickford, woman of the year, 1960.'
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00106826
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1009
CARL0005337637
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/31800
Subject
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979--Awards
Fairbanks, Douglas,--Jr.,--1909-2000
B'nai B'rith
Awards--California--Beverly Hills
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Women--California--Beverly Hills
Men--California--Beverly Hills
Plaques, plaquettes--California--Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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