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Title: Shooting Star: Vaudeville and Hollywood Celebrities Beat a Path to the Door of KC Photographer Orval Hixon
Description: Kansas City photographer Orval Hixon had his studio just off the lobby of the Baltimore Hotel at 11th and Baltimore streets. "He photographed hundreds of performers from 1915 to 1930." The article includes photos of the photographer himself, Baby Rose Marie (1930); dancer Ann Alcova (ca. 1920); Al Jolson (1920); Marilyn Miller (1918); Marie Dressler (1919); Charles "Buddy" Rogers (1928); Sessue Hayakawa (1920); and cover photo of Joan Crawford (1924).
Date: 2007-01-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Joan Crawford
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Joan Crawford; photo autographed.
Date: 1939
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joan Crawford
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Joan Crawford; photo autographed.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joan Crawford
Description: Group portrait of N. Emerson Paton, Joan Crawford, and unidentified man.
Date: 1960-05-25
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joan Crawford
Description: Biographical sketch of Joan Crawford (1906-1977), a movie actress starting in 1925 with silent pictures, growing up in Kansas City. Description of her life and career, moving to Kansas City in 1917 from Oklahoma, attending the Scarritt School and Saint Agnes school before working at and attending the Rockingham Academy in Kansas City and Stephens College in Columbia while developing as an actress and dancer. Description of her successful movie career through the 1930s and decline with family troubles documented in the book and movie, "Mommie Dearest."
Date: 1989
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Past Lives: Still Intact
Description: 1920s dance hall stage for such luminaries as a pre-Hollywood Joan Crawford, before waning interest for live music in the Great Depression.
Date: 1979-11
Object Type: Magazine Article