Movie Star Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: This is Sharon Lynn. Please congratulate Nick Santa Maria, Dewey Webb, Gregory Moore, Annie Frye, Mary Mallory and R. Ahuna for correctly identifying her. Nick, who was first, explains that he's a big Laurel and Hardy fan. This photo is from "Sunnyside Up," 1929. Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday. To keep the mystery photo from getting lost in the other entries, I move it from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday, etc., adding a photo every day. I have to approve all comments, so if your guess is posted immediately, that means you're wrong. (And if a wrong guess has already been submitted by someone else, there's no point in submitting it again). If you're right, you will have to wait until Friday. There's no need to submit your guess five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.  The answer to last week's photo: Pauline Garon. Check back next week for another mystery photo! Los Angeles Times file photo Here's another picture of our mystery woman. Isn't she great? Update: This is Sharon Lynn in "Happy Days." Los Angeles Times file photo OK, here's the mystery woman with a companion. Update: Frank Albertson and Sharon Lynn in "Wild Company."

Here are two more shots of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Nick Santa Maria and Dewey Webb for correctly identifying her. "Randolph Man," Eve Golden, Claire Lockhart, Dewey Webb and Carmen recognized her companion, above, as Frank Albertson. Update: Sharon Lynn in 1932. These photos were to publicize "The Big Broadcast," but they may just be fashion shots. Sharon Lynn, above, in "Turn on the Heat." Photograph by the Los Angeles Times Above, Sharon Lynn in 1942, when she was suing her neighbors in Malibu, charging that their home extended over her property. At left, The Times' obituary on Sharon Lynn, May 28, 1963. She was 53.

Comments

[Jany]

OLGA SAN JUAN

[Eve]

I'm completely flummoxed. Is she my great-aunt Syl? That's all I got left.

[herb nichols]

dixie lee

[Gregory Moore]

AHA! Sharon Lynn...star of that most shocking of Pre-Code musical numbers, "Turn On the Heat" from "Sunnyside Up"

[Dru Duniway]

Marjorie White

[January_Gal]

Constance Bennett

[Mary Mallory]

The still code makes the picture ON YOUR BACK (Fox, 1930), directed by Guthrie McClintic, but Frank Albertson is not listed in the cast in either the AFI Catalog or IMDB. The woman looks like Marion Shilling, she does not look like Irene Rich, Ilka chase, Charlotte Henry, or Rose Dione, the other women in the cast.

[annie frye]

How about Sharon Lynn?

[Victor H Brown, across the pond in England.]

All my second guesses have been used by others so I give up..I fancy this is so difficult because the young lady first appeared towards the end of the silent era.

[Sam]

Dorothy Christy

[Mary Mallory]

YOu were right, I did read the code wrong. It's actually WILD COMPANY (Fox, 1930), directed by Leo McCarey (McC-1). The stils say at the bottom, "...The jazz mad generation's challenge to tradition."

[Mary Mallory]

And it's Sharon Lynn (who was married to Benjamin Glazer) and Frank Albertson.

[Tony J]

Well, I haven't seen her listed above yet, and she did show up on a hunt for Mr. Albertson. Would the mystery lady be EVELYN VENEBLE?

[Rahuna]

Sharon Lynn.

[Joan Y. Compagno]

Juanita Quigley

[Joan Y. Compagno]

Fredi Washington

[Edward Cradduck]

It must be Frank's wife Grace; but how are we suppose to know what she looked like when she was twenty?

[Eve]

Darnit, I've SEEN "Sunnyside Up," and loved her "Turn on the Heat" number! I guess I didn't recognize her out of her hot eskimo outfit.

[Arye Michael Bender]

Thanks for 'Turn Up the Heat'. Definitely pre-code, and quite risque. Even though the world of 'Sunnyside Up' was waiting for Busby Berkeley to up the stakes, I could see his ideas a birthing.

Big time fun!