Movie Star Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo Above, Paramount dance director LeRoy Prinz with, from left, Esther Pressman, Beula McDonald, Bonita Barker, Kay Gordon, Dorothy Thompson and Dene Myles, April 15, 1935. Update: Our mystery guest is LeRoy Pnriz. 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: Laurie Mitchell! Randy Skretvedt  writes: I still say I'm correct, with the exception of LeRoy Prinz. Go look at your entry for Grace Bradley (July 25, 2009) and see the picture of the Paramount Protégés there. They are the same girls as in the first mystery picture. The second girl is unquestionably Ann Sheridan, the fourth is Gail Patrick (the girl you love to hate in "My Man Godfrey" and other films, later a successful television producer), and the girl at the very back is Wendy Barrie. Very well, then. See for yourself: Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Six LeRoy Prinz dancers were recently given contracts as stock actresses at Paramount studio because of their all-around beauty and ability to act. They are shown with Prinz, dance director. Left to right, bottom, Esther Pressman, Dene Myles; middle, Kay Gordon, Prinz, Beula McDonald; top, Dorothy Thompson and Bonita Barker, March 5, 1935. Here's another photo of our mystery guest with some mystery companions. Evidently there wasn't a photo in the world that couldn't be improved with a little tilting by The Times' art department. The cropped and tilted version. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Edward A. Prinz, right, with his son LeRoy. The dancers are, from left, Esther Pressman, Dene Myles, Bonita Barker, Dorothy Thompson, Kay Gordon and Beula McDonald, rehearsing for a sequence in "Rose of the Rancho" with Gladys Swarthout, Aug. 8, 1935.   Here's another photo of our mystery guest with even more mystery companions. Please congratulate Dewey Webb for identifying him! Los Angeles Times file photo Update: LeRoy Prinz with 12 dancers leaving Hollywood for a tour of the British Isles. Front, from left, Jean Dillon, Joan Matthews and Claudia Fargo. Middle, from left, Dorothy White, Harriet D'Busman, LeRoy Prinz and Bonita Barker. Back, from left, Sentha Williams, Jean Carmen, Althea Henley, Elizabeth Cook and Margaret Carthew, Dec. 31, 1935.   Here's another picture of our mystery guest with more mystery companions! Please congratulate Mike Hawks and Mary Mallory for identifying him! Photograph by Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 1945: LeRoy Prinz, studio director-producer, as he testified at trial of Herbert K. Sorrell, union leader, on contempt charge. Prinz said he was knocked down in film strike riot and when he got up saw Sorrell standing in mob with fists clenched. Please congratulate Jeff Hanna, Meara and James Curtis for identifying him!

Comments

[Anne Papineau]

Rita Hayworth!

[Mary Mallory]

Busby Berkeley.

[Laura Aikens Goeller]

DOROTHY LAMOUR

[Greg Clancey]

Which one are we trying to gues?

[william]

merle oberon

[KTOZ]

Angela Lansbury

[howard decker]

Ralph Faulkner (on the left).

[Randy Skretvedt]

I'll guess that these are the Paramount Protégées of 1935 --

1) Grace Bradley
2) Ann Sheridan
3) Gertrude Michael
4) Gail Patrick
5) Katherine DeMille
6) Wendy Barrie

My guess for the fencing instructor is Fred Cavens, who gave lessons to Errol Flynn and other swashbucklers of the '30s.

[Cold in PHX]

The WAMPAS baby stars circa 1930s.

[Rinky Dink]

Eddie Cantor.

[Lana]

Which one is the mystery star?

[Eileen]

Bette Davis.

[Dewey Webb]

Margo (third from right)

[Carmen]

Carla Laemmle

[Barry O'Brien]

Loretta Young?

[benito]

The fourth girl back looks just like Rita Cansino, later known as Rita Hayworth. She was a featured dancer on the doomed ship in Dante's Inferno. Her dad was her partner. The fifth girl back, whoever she is, is the real looker of the bunch. Wild guess: Merle Oberon? bc

[Dewey Webb]

Leroy Prinz

[Cold in PHX]

How 'bout the cast of Gold Diggers in Paris with their fencing instructor?

[gary martin]

I'm uncertain who we're looking at here, but in the first photo the woman at the head of the line is Lynn Bari. Make her the mystery star and I win!!!

[Lee Ann Bailey]

Is it Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra?

[Sue]

William Haines

[Nancy Price]

Busby Berkley

[Mike Hawks]

The man is LeRoy Prinz.

[Anne Papineau]

Dude on the far right looks like Joe Yule Sr.

[william]

Fred Cavens