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Title
Actress Li Lihua with Cecil B. DeMille and Edith Head
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
1956
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 caption dated July 20, 1956 reads, "Welcome DeMille Star -- Li li-hwa, "movie queen of Asia" and free China's top box office attraction, has been signed to a contract by the noted producer C.B. DeMille. With them (wearing dark glasses) is Edith Head, Paramount costume designer who is quite interested in Miss Li's Far East wardrobe."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00085553
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d004_f31_i11
CARL0004769828
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42955
Subject
Li, Lihua
Head, Edith
DeMille, Cecil B.--(Cecil Blount),--1881-1959
Fashion designers--United States
Costumes
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--China
Valley Times Collection photographs

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