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Title: Dorothy Lamour and husband testify in Kay Williams beating case
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated September 8, 1953 reads "Actress Dorothy Lamour and her husband, William Howard, both of whom came to actress Kay Willamss' aid after the alleged beating, arrive at the hearing. Miss Lamour had said previously that Miss Williams was 'in bad shape' after the incident." The caption refers to testimony in a preliminary hearing at a Costa Mesa courtroom against Adolph Spreckels II, heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune. Spreckels had been accused of beating his ex-wife, Kay Williams with her own shoe. Lamour was a close friend of Williams and had been the one to take Williams to the hospital. Spreckels was later found guilty of the beating and served a term of 30 days.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00106251
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5997
CARL0005225491
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30884
Subject: Lamour, Dorothy,--1914-1996
Lamour, Dorothy,--1914-1996--Trials, litigation, etc
Gable, Kathleen--Trials, litigation, etc
Witnesses--California--Costa Mesa
Courthouses--California--Costa Mesa
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Couples--California--Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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