Movie Star Mystery Photo

 

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Marjorie Rambeau in "Merely Mary Ann,"  1915. Here's a mini-mystery: The caption information on this undated photo says this is Rambeau with director Richard Wallace on a Corinne Griffith picture titled "Broadway Blues." Aha. This is from "Syncopatin' Sue," 1926.   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: Jack Mulhall. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Marjorie Rambeau in "The Night Duel," 1926. This was unidentified in The Times photos, so I didn't realize it was from a play when I posted it.  Look out! The dame's got a gun! Please congratulate Eve Golden and Carmen for correctly identifying our mystery woman. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Marjorie Rambeau and Franklin Pangborn in "In His Arms," a play, 1929. Here's our mystery woman with a mystery companion -- OK, well he's not terribly mysterious, is he? Please congratulate Dewey Webb for recognizing our mystery gal. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Marjorie Rambeau in "Tugboat Annie Sails Again," 1940. Yes, this is really her. Please congratulate Don Danard and Paul Cardinal for correctly identifying our mystery guest. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Marjorie Rambeau with George Raft in "Broadway," 1942. OK, I said I would identify our mystery woman today. But I'm having so much fun with these old pictures I'm going to drag it out until tomorrow. Los Angeles Times file photo Marjorie Rambeau in "The Palm Springs Story," 1964. Notice the meticulous detail The Times' art department used to paint out Robin Hayes, 3. Look closely. The artist filled out the pattern in Rambeau's blouse.

Comments

[Carol Gwenn]

Mary Garden?

[Eve]

Marjorie Rambeau? I can tell it was taken in the early- mid-1910s.

[Mary Mallory]

Everlyn Nesbit?

[Earl Boebert]

Margaret Dumont?

[Sandy R.]

Laurette Taylor

[Victor H Brown , from over the pond in England]

Could this be Marjorie Main before she matured into Ma Kettle?

[Carmen]

Marjorie Rambeau

[Mike Hawks]

Larry: How about Enid Bennett. Mike

[Sam]

Billie Dove

[annie frye]

Mary Miles Minter?

[Carol Gwenn]

A second stab: Alma Rubens?

[Anne Papineau]

Julian Eltinge?

[jany]

MARGARET SULLAVAN

[Arye Michael Bender]

Definitely a dowager with Franklin Pangborn, but which dowager...

[Mary Mallory]

Is that Tallulah Bankhead with Franklin Pangborn?

[herb nichols]

marion davies and franklin pangborn

[mike hawks]

Larry: How about Marjorie Rambeau with Franklin Pangborn. Mike

[Claire Lockhart]

He is a young Franklin Pangborn.

[Pat in Michigan]

Carmel Myers

[Eileen]

Marjorie Kane?

[Claire Lockhart]

Is it Alla Nazimova and Franklin Pangborn in the play The Marionettes?

[Mary Mallory]

Is that Marjorie Rambeau with Pangborn? They starred in "Her Man" together, but neither wears anything like that in the stills we have.

[Nancy Price]

Pert Kelton

[Andy in Maine]

Clara Bow, the "It Girl"

[patricia]

Betty Compson