Multi-tiered wedding cake for Martha O'Driscoll, California, 1943
Gift in Memory of Martha O'Driscoll
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Photograph. Multi-tiered wedding cake with cake topper figurines that look like Martha O'Driscoll and first husband Richard Adams. Printed caption on photo front: "Printed in the United States of America - Copyright 1943, Universal Pictures Co., Inc. - Permission granted for newspaper and magazine reproductions." Reverse: "MO'D P79. Universal. And with trimmings! Perfect likenesses of Martha O'Driscoll and her groom, LT. Commander Ricahrd Adams, U.S.N., adorned the huge cake at thier wedding ceremony in Beverly Hills recently. Couple honeymooned in San Francisco, where his ship was based, then Martha returned for special appearances with her latest Universal picture, 'Crazy House'." Beverly Hills, California. 1943
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1943
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Martha O'Driscoll was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 4, 1922. She was an American film actress from 1937 until 1947. She toured with Errol Flynn and other entertainers in the USO in the early 1940s, performing for the troops in the Aleutians in 1943 and later in the South Pacific. She married her first husband, Richard Adams, in 1943. They were divorced in 1947, and later that year she married Arthur Appleton. O'Driscoll was under contract to Universal Studios during World War II. Collection includes over 200 photographs related to O'Driscoll's time overseas; four certificates awarded to her for her service, and many newspaper clippings detailing her life in the public eye.
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Beverly Hills
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34.067
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-118.383
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Weddings--California
Cakes--United States