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Mary Astor and her husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe arrive with baby Marylyn, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: Mary Astor and her husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe arrive with baby Marylyn, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1932
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Standing on the deck of the ship, Dr. Thorpe stands beside Mary, holding baby Marylyn wrapped in a white blanket.
Mary Astor and Dr. Thorpe's daughter "Marylyn" gets her name from a combination of Mary and Franklyn. She was born in Honolulu on June 15th, and is successfully gaining weight.
Photograph appears with the article, "Tiny Miss Likes California," Los Angeles Times, 09 July 1932: A12.
Text from negative sleeve: THORPE, FRANKLYN DR. 1925
Text from newspaper caption: Southland Sunshine Makes Her Sleepy Miss Astor, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe and their daughter, Marylyn, born in Hawaii June 15, arrive aboard Lassco flagship, City of Los Angeles.
Handwritten on negative: Dr. Franklyn Thorpe Mary Astor Marlyn Thorpe
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3786
ark:/21198/zz002cpfxv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--American--California--Los Angeles
Families--American--California--Los Angeles
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Blankets
Infants--California--Los Angeles
Thorpe, Marylyn Hauoli, b. 1932
Thorpe, Franklyn, 1892-1977
Los Angeles Steamship Company
Astor, Mary, 1906-1987
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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