Tough Girls 1947

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Issue Title PATHE PICTORIAL LOOKS AT THE MODERN WOMAN

Harrow, Middlesex.

Various shots of two women fighting in a garden. They are both wearing jumpers and trousers. The wrestling women are introduced as Terry Blackmore and Peggy Hughes, film stunt girls.

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44277
Sort Number:
NP 159
Time in/Out:
01:41:47:00 / 01:42:13:00
Canister:
NP 159
Film ID:
1341.26
Issue Date:
29/09/1947

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