Relationship 662: Earl W. Baldwin & Mildred Estella Lamb

Relationship Record 662

Male/Husband} Baldwin, Earl W.

Family History} Olson

Female/Wife} Lamb, Mildred Estella

Relationship Type} Marriage

Marriage: Date} Exa 28 Mar 1927

Place} Redwood City, San Mateo, California

Ended: On Date} Exa 9 Oct 1970
By} Death of husband

Source 1}	2267=Marriage
Source 2}	1271=City directy
Source 3}	988 = City directy
Source 4}	1342=1940 USA cen
Source 5}	548 = Birth record
Source 6}	2270=1950 USA cen
Source 7}	1275=Newspaper
Source 8}	536 = Death record
Source 9}	552 = S.S. record
Source 10}	2271=Obituary
Source 11}	7777=Obituary
Source 12}	1894=Cemetery rec

1st Household No.} 564 = Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Photographs} None

Last Updated
by} Karen Hancock

Date Updated} 29 Aug 2026
Date Created} 31 Jan 2001

Notes: Earl Webster Baldwin, 21, married Mildred Estella Lamb, 18, on 21 Mar 1927 in her parents home on Arch Street, Redwood City, San Mateo, California. Earl was a screen writer for MGM Studios in Culver City, Mildred had just finished touring with her sister Hazel Lamb. The couple planned to reside in Hollywood. For awhile, they lived east of Los Angeles, in the Covina area, then moved to the San Fernando Valley area where they lived for over thirty years.

No census record can be found for the couple in the 1930 USA census. In 1935, Earl was working as a screen writer, and they were living at 4039 Cromwell Ave., Los Angeles. In 1939, they were living at 4245 Clybourn Ave., San Fernando, Los Angeles. Earl was a writer for Warner Bros.

In the 1940 U.S. census, Earl W. Baldwin, 38, and Mildred E. Baldwin, 36, were living at 5251 Woodman, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA. Earl was a scenario writer, had completed 2 years of high school, had an income of over $5,000, They owned their home, which was a new home, having being built in 1939, with 3,929 sq. ft. They had one daughter, Phyllis, 5. Also in the household was Helen Steffen, a servant, and Ivah Daty, a nurse.

In the 1950 U.S. census, Earl W. Baldwin, 46, and Mildred E., 44, were living at 4343 Sutton, Apt. 13, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. He was a writer for a movie studio. Their two girls were Phyllis E., 15, and Suzaanne M., 9.

About 1966, Earl was stricken with pancreatic problems, and stopped writing. In 1969, with the help of treatment through a home health care agency, he began writing again. At that time he and his wife were living at 1523½ Dickens St., Sherman Oaks. After a morning walk, he would dictate stories to his wife to be typed up by a commercial secretary.

Earl died 9 Oct 1970 at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, where he had lived for the past year and a half. Mildred died 5 Feb 1983 in Panorama City. They are buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.

Children:

Total # of Children} 2

Seq. # of Primary}

1st Child}	Baldwin, Phyllis Ella
2nd Child}	Baldwin, Suzanne Mildred

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