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Title: Josephine, most famous monkey
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Shown from left to right: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, and Josephine, the most famous monkey in motion pictures. Josephine is celebrating her 35th birthday and her 21st year as a screen character. Josephine's birthday came up while she was curling her tail around the neck of Maria Montez in Walter Wanger's "Arabian Nights" at Universal, so Miss Montez and her co-stars cut a cake in her honor. Photo dated: December 5, 1942.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046158
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7066.
CARL0000050276
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16341
Subject: Montez, Mari´a,--1912-1951
Hall, Jon,--1915-1979
Sabu,--1924-1963
Birthdays--California--Los Angeles
Monkeys--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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