Movie Star Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Renzo Cesana in a publicity photo for "The Continental" radio show, Feb. 5, 1951. Update: Don't be afraid, darling. It's only Renzo Cesana! 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: LeRoy Prinz!   Los Angeles Times file photo Update, Renzo Cesana, Jan. 28, 1952. Here's another picture of our elegant mystery guest. Please congratulate Mike Hawks, Herb Nichols, Laura fan Waldo Lydecker (who even quoted some dialogue!) and Richard Heft for identifying him! Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Renzo Cesana with Ingrid Bergman in Roberto Rossellini's "Stromboli." Cesana was hired as a writer for the film, then pressed into service as a dialogue coach and finally was cast as a priest. Here's our mystery guest with a (not very) mysterious companion. Please congratulate Flo Myers and Dewey Webb for identifying him!  Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Renzo Cesana, March 20, 1952. Here's another photo of our mystery guest, with the background painted out by The Times' art department. That's some outfit, eh? Please congratulate Megan, Earl Boebert, "Dr. Fudd,"  Diane Ely, D Celle, Nick Santa Maria, Allison Berntsen, Rogét-L.A. and Mary Mallory for identifying him!   Los Angeles Times file photo Renzo Cesana, Sept. 21, 1961. Please congratulate Barry O'Brien for identifying him!

Comments

[Mary Mallory]

Fritz Lang.

[dDewey Webb]

Rare screen test shot of Halston as FDR in Sunrise at Campobello?

[Greg Clancey]

Ralph Lynn

[Steven Bibb]

Duke York, and I am only saying him due to the monocle.

[Arye Michael Bender]

If I could see his hair, I'd say it was the incomparable Sam Jaffe.

[Mike Hawks]

How about Ezio Pinza.

[Mike Hawks]

O.K. How about Renzo Cesana.

[herb nichols]

renzo cesana

[Sandy]

Never saw him dressed anything like that, but it looks like Hugh Brannum, aka "Mr. Green Jeans."

[Antonio Triana]

Picture definitely shot in L.A.; could it be Señor Wences?

[waldo lydecker]

"Don't be afraid my dear, it's only a man's apartment!" Played directly to the camera, these were the words with which RENZO CESANA greeted his TV audience in the early 50's for his show, The Continental. It was seen locally on KNBH (Ch.4) and briefly on CBS-TV. He did act in features and T V usually playing .... an Italian!

[Karen]

Conrad Veidt

[Richard Heft]

Renzo Cesana. Even if I'm wrong, I don't care. How often do I get to invoke Renzo Cesana?

[Phoebe]

Milton Berle?

[Carmen]

Max Schreck

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

I feel that I should know this man but it is with little confidence that I suggest it could be John Litel.

[James Curtis]

Looks like Lucien Prival.

[dDewey Webb]

Renzo Cesana, "The Continental"!

[Flo Myers]

Renzo Cesana

[Arye Michael Bender]

What a dapper chap, in the old world style. Looks like he could have fathered Danny Kaye. Not saying he did...

[Cynthia K.]

Ernst Deutsch.

[Mary mallory]

Adolfo Celi.

[gerald mccann]

Sam Jaffe?

[Mary Mallory]

Renzo Cesana.

[Rogét-L.A.]

Renzo Cesana! He looked so familiar, but I just couldn't place him. I knew he was Italian, and then I remembered I recognized him from episodes of "Bewitched" and "That Girl".