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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Paul Calvert photograph
Creator:
Calvert, Paul M.
Identifier/Call Number: 2531
Physical Description:
0.03 Linear Feet
1 folder
Date: 1926
Abstract: Collection consists of one group photograph of silent picture personalities taken at Norma Talmadge's beach house in Playa
del Rey in 1926 with an accompanying identification list and letter from Paul Calvert, studio electrician for Warner Bros.
Studios.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
Collection consists of one group photograph of silent picture personalities taken at Norma Talmadge's beach house in Playa
del Rey in 1926 with an accompanying identification list and letter from Paul Calvert, studio electrician for Warner Bros.
Studios. The photograph includes such notable people as Roscoe Arbuckle, Jack Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Pola Negri, Louella
Parsons, Claire Windsor, and Dorothy Dalton.
Originally part of the Ethel Barrymore Memorial Theatre Arts Collection at the University of Southern California Library
100 Series, and was labeled 100-12 .
Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) was an American silent film actress and producer best known for
Smilin' Through (1922). Talmadge's career reached its peak in the early 1920s, and she retired from acting in the early 1930s after being
unable to adapt to the new "talkies" and becoming bored with filmmaking.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Paul Calvert
[Box/folder no. or item name], Paul Calvert photograph, Collection no. 2531, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Actors -- Photographs
Actresses -- Photographs
Silent films -- United States -- Archival resources
Calvert, Paul M. -- Archives
Talmadge, Norma, 1894-1957