Baby In The Limelight 1938

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Titles read: "BABY IN THE LIMELIGHT".

London.

Brief shots of Count Haugwitz-Reventlow and his Countess wife, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton, meeting the press on the deck of a cruise ship. Several shots of exterior of their home at Winfield House in Regents Park guarded by two policemen....

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21698
Sort Number:
38/051
Time in/Out:
01:36:18:00 / 01:36:37:00
Canister:
38/51
Film ID:
1658.26
Issue Date:
27/06/1938

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