Movie Star Mystery Photo

 

Los Angeles Times file photo Noreen Nash in "The Red Stallion," 1947.  Los Angeles Times file photo Noreen Nash, Dec. 27, 1957 Update: This is actress and author Noreen Nash. Please congratulate Sue Willahan for identifying her. (Sue explains that her mother went to school with Nash). 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: John Loder!     Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Noreen Nash, June 22, 1955.  Here's another picture of our mystery gal! Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Noreen Nash and William Bendix in "The Life of Riley," Aug. 8, 1959. "Riley is surprised when 'Pat Davidson' turns out to be a beautiful girl and worries about how to break the news to his wife that 'Pat" will ride in his carpool." So far I seem to have stumped everybody. I never know how hard the mystery guests are going to be until I post them. Today, she has a mystery companion! Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Robert Evans, Lynne Frederick Sellers, left, novelist Noreen Nash Siegel and her husband, Dr. Lee Siegel, staff physician at 20th Century Fox, Nov. 9, 1980. Here's our mystery woman with a couple of mystery guests. I can't believe I have stumped everybody but evidently I have. I never know how difficult the mystery photos are going to be until I post them. Los Angeles Times file photo Noreen Nash in "Lineup," Nov. 23, 1956.

Comments

[bjth]

(A very young) Eleanor Parker?

[Nick Santa Maria]

Elyse Knox?

[Sue]

Jeanne Crain

[Sue]

Barbara Britton

[Eve]

Co-worker Mel (I gave up) says "Betty Jane Rhodes?"

And we both agree she really DOES look like Barbara Britton!

[Donna Hill]

Wildly tossing out a guess, Lucille Bremer?

[Eve]

Is it the hairdryer be-bonked Rita Johnson?

[Victor Huntrods Brown, from across the pond in England]

She seems awfully familiar but this is still a wild guess...Alexis Smith.

[Arye Michael Bender]

A rifle shot in the dark, Gail Davis (Annie Oakley)?

[Claire Lockhart]

Young Marie McDonald

[Nick Santa Maria]

Lois Collier?

[annie frye]

Joan Vohs?

[China Gal]

The eyes in the first picture remind me of Donna Reed

[Eve]

Veronica Hurst?

[Eve]

Mel says, "Maris Wrixon?"

[rick]

eleanor parker

[LC]

Is it Dennie Moore?

[Sue]

Rhonda Fleming

[Donna Hill]

Mystery companion is William Bendix. I am still clueless about who she may be!

[zabadu]

Well, the mystery companion today is William Bendix, right?

[Jim D.]

I don't know who your mystery star is but her companion is William Bendix.

[Eve]

Mel says, "Lola Albright?"

[william]

gloria blondell

[Arye Michael Bender]

Am guessing the sweater girl is Gloria Withers. That because she is standing next to the befuddled, Chester A. Riley. She's too sexy to be Chester's wife Peg, and about the right age to be his daughter.

William Bendix, a great noir killer, was also superb in working class comedy. Another actor who was old when he was young.

[Dewey Webb]

Riley looks as baffled as the rest of us. Could she be the even lesser-known sister of Toni Gerry?