Child performers Marilyn and Carolyn Crumley, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Child performers Marilyn and Carolyn Crumley, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

August 1935

Date

1935-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A photograph of a portrait of Carolyn and Marilyn, who wear the same dresses, hair bows, and have their hair styled in the same manner.
Marilyn and Carolyn are just two of the 800 Meglin Kiddies who have made stage appearances this year at the Orpheum Theater, the Million Dollar Theater, and many have been included in several motion picture productions.
Photograph appears with the article, "Many Stage Jobs Found By Children," Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug 1935: D7.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Carolyn and Marilyn Crumley, two Famous Meglin Kiddies who recently appeared at the Orpheum Theater and who were featured with 125 classmates in the Technicolor short "Reg'lar Kids," under the direction of Ralph Straub.
Handwritten on negative: Carolyn + Marilyn Crumley.
Text from negative sleeve: 1890 - Carolyn + Marilyn Crumley (Copy) Megglin Kiddies [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Crumley, Marilyn, b. 1925
Crumley, Carolyn, b. 1922 or 24
Meglin Kiddies

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Entertainers--California--Los Angeles
Sisters--American--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles