Los Angeles Times file photo
Here's our last mystery star of 2008!
|
Los Angeles Times file photo
|
Lots of guesses, but
none of them were correct. Our mystery guest has more than 30 credits
on imdb and figured in the investigation of a famous murder case.
Update:
Please congratulate William (westpv) for correctly identifying our
mystery woman as Jewel Carmen. Very impressive! I'll keep posting photos to see who
else recognizes her.
Update: Sam (sammathtchr) also recognized her. Congratulations! |
|
Los Angeles Times file photo
|
Here's another photo of our mystery woman, now with a mystery co-star!
Update: This is Kenneth Harlan in a scene from "Nobody." |
Photograph by the Los Angeles Times
|
And here's our mystery gal a few years later. I think her sunglasses are great.
|
Photograph by the Los Angeles Times
|
And here she is in 1939. Our mystery woman is Jewel Carmen. She figured in the Thelma Todd case because she was married to Roland West and owned the buildings where Todd operated her restaurant, including the garage where Todd's body was found. Carmen told investigators that Todd had heart disease and believed she only had a few years to live.
|
|
Mary Miles Minter?
Marion Davies?
Posted by: zabadu | December 29, 2008 at 09:33 AM
Peg Entwhistle?
Posted by: AJ | December 29, 2008 at 06:13 PM
Olive Thomas?
Posted by: zabadu | December 29, 2008 at 06:14 PM
Also think it is Mary Miles Minter.
Although, with that amount of retouching, it could have been Lassie.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | December 29, 2008 at 06:14 PM
Mary Pickford
Posted by: Sam | December 29, 2008 at 06:14 PM
Myrna Loy
Posted by: Nancy | December 29, 2008 at 06:39 PM
Claire Windsor
Posted by: Ingred | December 29, 2008 at 09:45 PM
Mary Astor
Posted by: Mary A. | December 30, 2008 at 06:23 AM
Edna Purviance?
Posted by: pat | December 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Mildred Davis
Posted by: Nick Santa Maria | December 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Edna Cook
Posted by: Nancy | December 30, 2008 at 07:37 PM
Mabel Normand
Posted by: Pamela Porter | December 30, 2008 at 07:49 PM
Virginia Rappe.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | December 30, 2008 at 08:28 PM
The heavy retouching renders this difficult. Of the published guesses Mary Miles Minter seems by far the best one. The style of everything is late 1910s, early 1920s. The shot with her male co-star is from the 1910s. Could he possibly be Wallace Reid?
Posted by: Randolph Man | December 31, 2008 at 09:26 AM
Lionel Barrymore? I think I'm wrong this time...cant connect these two in any productions but he looks like Barrymore to me.
Posted by: william | December 31, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Mary Miles Minter
Posted by: Bob Duvall | December 31, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Looks a little like Madge Bellamy
Posted by: Steven Bibb | December 31, 2008 at 12:05 PM
How about Viola Dana?
Posted by: Cold in PHX | December 31, 2008 at 01:24 PM
The mystery costar looks like William Haines.
Posted by: pat | December 31, 2008 at 06:49 PM
I think it's Lillian Gish.
Posted by: PalmTreeKid | January 01, 2009 at 08:05 AM