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Title: "Ben Hur" sweeps awards
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: 1960
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.; A cut-out of Gary Cooper's head was placed on top of original image to change his facial expression.
Photograph caption dated April 5, 1960 reads, ""Ben Hur" Sweep - Director William Wyler, left; Mrs. Sam Zimbalist, second from left, wife of late producer, and actor Charlton Heston, right, all took top awards for work in film "Ben Hur." Gary Cooper and Susan Hayward made key presentations."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00086448
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d006_f6_i14
CARL0004795680
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43448
Subject: Hayward, Susan,--1917-1975
Zimbalist, Sam
Wyler, William,--1902-1981
Heston, Charlton
Cooper, Gary,--1901-1961
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Award presentations--California--Los Angeles
Awards--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Valley Times Collection photographs

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