Mystery Photo
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Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Our mystery person this week is Trixie Friganza, who died in 1955. Above, Friganza in "Canary Cottage, May 21, 1916. Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday ... or on Saturday if I have a hard time picking only five pictures -- sometimes it's difficult to choose. 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 mystery star: Marjorie Rambeau. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Friganza as the "Flapper Grandma" in "The Clinging Vine," Nov. 2, 1924. Here's our mystery gal with her fancy radio. Check out the horn on the speaker. Please congratulate Eve Golden and Mary Mallory for correctly identifying her! Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Friganza in "The Charmer," April 5, 1925. Here's another photo of our mystery gal. Please congratulate Bob Birchard and Nick Santa Maria for correctly identifying her. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Sophie Tucker visits Friganza, who is bedridden with arthritis, Dec. 15, 1952. Our mystery woman is ill and receives a visit from an old friend. Please congratulate Mike Hawks for correctly identifying our mystery gal. Los Angeles Times file photo Friganza celebrates her 82nd birthday, Nov. 30, 1953. |
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Fay Tincher?
Posted by: Anne Papineau | May 18, 2009 at 09:08 AM
Mae West
Posted by: Dewey Webb | May 18, 2009 at 11:17 AM
theda bara
Posted by: william | May 18, 2009 at 01:34 PM
marie provost?
Posted by: annie frye | May 18, 2009 at 02:37 PM
Paula Negri
Posted by: Harry Langmead | May 18, 2009 at 02:58 PM
Mabel Normand
Posted by: Annmarie | May 18, 2009 at 03:30 PM
On second thought, Alice Brady?
Posted by: Annmarie | May 18, 2009 at 03:44 PM
Ethel Barrymore
Posted by: Paul Cardinal | May 18, 2009 at 08:20 PM
Edith Taliaferro?
Posted by: Anne Papineau | May 19, 2009 at 07:12 AM
Jane Darwell
Posted by: Dewey Webb | May 19, 2009 at 09:32 AM
marie dressler
Posted by: william | May 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Lucille Benson
Posted by: January_Gal | May 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Trixie Friganza?
Posted by: Nick Santa Maria | May 19, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Trixie Friganza
Posted by: Bob Birchard | May 19, 2009 at 03:15 PM
sophie tucker?
Posted by: gerald mccann | May 20, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Larry: Trixie Friganza. Mike
Posted by: mike hawks | May 20, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Mary Garden?
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | May 20, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Re: most recent pic of the mystery gal. Still can't bring her name to mind, but the big blond on the left is indeed Sophie Tucker & looks like it was taken in the late '40s or early '50s.
Posted by: Carol Gwenn | May 21, 2009 at 09:53 AM
mystery gal's pal is Sophie Tucker
Posted by: Dewey Webb | May 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
The friend is Sophie Tucker.
Posted by: Claire Lockhart | May 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I still don't know main subject but I believe the 'old friend' who visits is Sophie Tucker.
Posted by: waldo lydecker | May 21, 2009 at 03:47 PM
Zeffie Tilbury ?
Posted by: Bill T | May 21, 2009 at 05:47 PM
I think it must be Sophie Tucker. I'd never seen an early photo. Bless her heart, "The last of the red hot mamas".
Posted by: annie frye | May 21, 2009 at 06:14 PM
Franklin Pangborn as a pallbearer? Now I am impressed.
Posted by: howard decker | May 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM