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Title
Ben-Hur' star and wife at premiere
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1959
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
Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated November 25, 1959 reads, "Charlton Heston and wife arrive for showing of $16,000,000 movie at Egyptian Theatre." The premiere is for "Ben-Hur."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00130302
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 12507
CARL0005531639
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34550
Subject
Heston, Charlton
Heston, Lydia Clarke
Chinese Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Motion picture premieres--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Photographers--United States
Couples--California--Los Angeles
Tuxedos
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960

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