Barbara Hutton and Count Kurt Reventlow split up, London, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Barbara Hutton and Count Kurt Reventlow split up, London, 1938

Date Created

1938

Date

1938

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A photograph of a picture of a smiling Barbara sitting next to Count Reventlow. Another woman partially obscured by the frame of the picture leans forward to talk to the Count.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Each Year Brings New Grist of News and Here Are Things That 1938 Brought," Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec 1938: 8.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: The year 1938 was a year of war jitters and jitterbugs, world-shaking events such as a nation losing its identity and such trivia as the Lambeth Walk. In between there were many other happenings, which, though not great news events, held the attention of the public for a time and gave character to 1938. This page presents an array of such events. Starting at top left-hand corner and going across the page row by row are pictures which should refresh the money on the following stories: Peter Levine kidnaping murder-Barbara Hutton's break with her Danish Count-Hedy Lamarr's leap to film fame-Paul Wright's trial for murder-Andrea Luckenbach's marriage to butter-and-eggs salesman-all Europe buys gas masks-Greta Garbo's and Leopold Stokowski's Riviera interlude-vanishing of Samoan Clipper-Mayor Hague's rule over Jersey City-the up or down hair-do tempest - John Roosevelt's marriage - Woody Hockaday's antics - King and Queen of England visit Paris - James Cash kidnaping murder-Orson Welles Martian invasion scare-Prince Gustaf of Sweden visits America-Philip La Follette's third party-Governor O'Daniel's Texas campaign-Barbara Carrol, figure in strange murder tangle-Father Divine falls heir to Crum Elbow, estate next Roosevelt's-daughter born to Dutch princess.
Text from negative sleeve: 15381 - (divorce) Danish Nobleman Count + Countess Haugwitz Von Reventlow - (Haugwitz (Von?) Reventlow) (former Barbara Hutton) (used in events of 1938 montage) Woolworth heiress [stamped:] Jan 19 1939
Handwritten on negative: 94-3E

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hutton, Barbara
von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, Kurt, (Count)

Location

London (England)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Divorce--England--London
Socialites--England--London
Nobility--Denmark