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Title: Buys boat for TV role
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: 1957
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 reads: "Actor Chill Wills, front right, shows friends new boat he purchased to get nautical mood for his role in new "Min and Bill" television series, based on Wallace Beery-Marie Dressler film classic. Trying out fiberglass 14-footer are Phyllis Dixon and, rear, from left, Ken Broyles, who sold Wills boat, and Jes Cavin who will appear with Wills in series". Photograph dated: April 19, 1957.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083288
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d002_f8_i19
CARL0004760350
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42502
Subject: Wills, Chill,--1902-1978
Actors--California--Los Angeles
Motorboats--California--Los Angeles
Valley Times Collection photographs

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