Motion picture actress Lila Lee's stolen jewelry.
Item Overview
- Title
- Motion picture actress Lila Lee's stolen jewelry.
- Date Created
- February 16, 1934
- Date
- 1934-02-16
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Jewelry stolen from motion picture actress Lila Lee by her former chauffeur, Robert Lewis. Lewis entered into Lee's home via a key he knew to be hidden on the back porch and stole the jewelry, worth a total of $10,000 (in 1934 dollars). Lewis was apprehended while trying to sell a ruby and platinum ring at a pawn shop for $3. When Lee was notified that her former chauffeur was in custody and her jewelry had been recovered, she was on set and had no knowledge the theft had taken place. February 16, 1934.
- Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: Lila Lee's Stolen Jewels.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002543gn
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .