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Title: Ol' Archie now a thespian
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
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: Photograph caption dated September 19, 1959 reads, "Archie Moore, world light heavyweight boxing champion, is shown in a scene from a screen test which won him a starring role in Samuel Goldwyn Jr.'s upcoming production, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Moore will play the famed Mark Twain character of 'Jim,' Huck's devoted companion and runaway slave, in the story to be directed by Michael Curtiz."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00054020
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d063_f19_i30
CARL0000057725
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41486
Subject: Moore, Archie,--1913-1998
Boxers (Sports)
African American boxers
Actors
Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies
Men
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time Period: 1950-1959

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