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Film, Video [Fashion show in pool--Ira Gershwin--home movie]

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Title

  • [Fashion show in pool--Ira Gershwin--home movie]

Summary

  • Footage of Emily Paley, Ira Gershwin, Lou Paley, Edward G. Robinson, Gladys Lloyd Robinson, and George A. Pallay comically runway modeling in the backyard garden of the Gershwin home and posing poolside wearing a variety of fashion and swim accessories. Edward G. Robinson Jr., approximately five years old, joins the adults for a group modeling shot. Ira Gershwin, wearing a top hat, humorously enters the pool with a cane. Emily Paley sits with unidentified friends.

Created / Published

  • [1938?]

Headings

  • -  Gershwin, Ira,--1896-1983--Friends and associates
  • -  Gershwin, Leonore,--1900-1991--Friends and associates
  • -  Paley, Emily,--1897-1990,--depicted
  • -  Gershwin, Ira,--1896-1983,--depicted
  • -  Paley, Lou,--depicted
  • -  Robinson, Edward G.,--1893-1973,--depicted
  • -  Robinson, Gladys Lloyd,--1895-1971,--depicted
  • -  Robinson, Edward G.,--1933-1974,--depicted
  • -  Pallay, George A.,--depicted
  • -  Fashion shows--California--Beverly Hills
  • -  Backyard gardens--California--Beverly Hills
  • -  Swimming pools--California--Beverly Hills

Genre

  • Amateur films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Appearing: Emily Paley, Ira Gershwin, Lou Paley, Edward G. Robinson, Gladys Lloyd Robinson, Edward G. Robinson Jr., George A. Pallay, and others.
  • -  Filmed at 1019 N. Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills, California, in about 1938.
  • -  Date printed on original Kodachrome container is May 1938; date from original Kodachrome container of other home movie seemingly filmed the same day, [Lee, Lou, Em and Eddie in garden--Ira Gershwin--home movies] (LCCN 2024603415), is September 7, 1937.
  • -  Sources used: original containers; Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trust archive, 1895-2012 ILS record (LCCN 2018571963); Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trust Archive finding aid; [Gershwins, 1936-1939--Ira Gershwin--home movies] DVD-R with identification; Los Angeles evening citizen news, June 12, 1937, p. 19, viewed August 22, 2024 via Newspapers.com; Los Angeles times, April 7, 1940, p. 69, viewed August 22, 2024 via Newspapers.com; Gershwin in New York WWW site, viewed August 22, 2024.
  • -  Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trust archive, 1895-2012.
  • -  Moving image material transferred to LC NAVCC Moving Image Section from the LC Music Division, 2011-04-05.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 1 min., 22 sec.) : si., col.

Source Collection

  • Gershwin Trust Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024603402

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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