Barbara Payton in Court
Barbara Payton in Court
Clip: 500420_1_1
Year Shot: 1960
(Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1498
Original Film: HFR-DFS-16-035
HD: N/A
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Timecode: 01:21:12 - 01:22:29
TLS/MSs former actress BARBARA PAYTON sitting beside two African-American women in court. MSs Barbara Payton -- showing plain signs of years of alcohol abuse -- sitting in chair in courtroom. During a well-publicized self-induced descent from Hollywood fame, fortune & glory, Ms Payton had many skirmishes with the law on charges ranging from prostitution to public drunkenness. She died in 1967. MS sign-- "Division 27 Municipal Court" -- pan right to open courtroom doors. MS newsreel cameraman filming with short-reel wind-up 35mm camera.