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Title: Most improved dresser
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1986
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 March 25, 1986 reads, "Escorted by Michael J. Fox, Whoopi Goldberg deserved the most improved dresser award for her figure-flattering black knit dress, worn with dainty petals." The 58th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on March 24, 1986. Goldberg was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Celie Johnson in the film "The Color Purple" and presented the award for Best Film Editing. Fox presented the award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration with Rebecca De Mornay.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082531
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b015_f3_i67
CARL0000081960
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25237
Subject: Goldberg, Whoopi,--1955-
Fox, Michael J.,--1961-
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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