Title supplied by cataloger. 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 dated August 6, 1940. Photograph caption dated September 25, 1940 reads "Junior Auxiliary of the Jewish Home for the Aged. Miss Lien Deyers, Danish actress and life member of auxiliary, Mrs. Sam Katz, Mis Mary Pickford, Vera Kalman, wife of Emmerich Kalman, composer." Miss Pickford welcomed several hundred new members to the auxiliary during a garden party at her home in Beverly Hills, Pickfair.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979 Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979--Homes and haunts Deyers, Lien,--1910- Ka´lma´n, Vera Pickfair Mansion (Beverly Hills, Calif.) Jewish Home for the Aging of Los Angeles.--Junior Auxiliary Motion picture actors and actresses--United States Motion picture actors and actresses--Denmark Women--California--Beverly Hills Parties--California--Beverly Hills Dwellings--California--Beverly Hills Beverly Hills (Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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