Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Owen Crump and Isabel Jewell announce their engagement, July 6, 1936.
You’re probably asking: Which one is the mystery guest? I’ll take answers on either person, but I picked these photos because of the fellow. It’s mostly because of that mustache.
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 reward is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's mystery star: Lina Romay!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Jewell and Crump. July 1936.
Here’s another picture of our mystery fellow. Several folks have identified our mystery woman (Mary Mallory, Michael Ryerson, Carmen and Steven Bibb) but nobody has identified our mysterious man with the mustache. I was about to say “he owns only one suit,” but the photo appears to be from the same session as picture No. 1. Our mystery woman has just added a hat and jacket.
 Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Crump and Jewell “swaying to swing rhythm” at the Cocoanut Grove, Aug. 30, 1936.
Here’s another photo of our mystery fellow. Please congratulate Eve Golden and Mary Mallory for identifying him. Dewey Webb and Megan Thom and Lee have identified our mystery woman.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Crump and Lucille Fairbanks, niece of Douglas Fairbanks, after their marriage in Santa Barbara, Oct. 12, 1940.
Uh-oh. Something seems to have happened to our mystery woman! This doesn't look good!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Crump and Fairbanks at the Beverly Hills Brown Derby, Feb. 2, 1941.
This is, as a few people guessed, Owen Crump. I'll be in court today so I won't be able to update this until tomorrow. More TK.
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Vincent Price?
Posted by: Mark Tee | October 20, 2009 at 07:50 PM
Akim Tamaroff.
Posted by: Anne Papineau | October 20, 2009 at 08:22 PM
Michael Whalen
Posted by: Alekszandr | October 21, 2009 at 01:43 AM
Leo Carillo?
Posted by: gerald mccann | October 21, 2009 at 08:05 AM
Today's photo is from your archives. I went there late yesterday after I submitted my answer, just to make sure I was right.
Posted by: Mary mallory | October 21, 2009 at 09:22 AM
Paul Marion and Isabel Jewell?
Posted by: Christine Bamberger | October 21, 2009 at 09:41 AM
I sent my answer in on Monday and I guess it got lost in the vortex. The lady is Isabel Jewell and perhaps the man is Edward Raquello.
Posted by: Mike Hawks | October 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Clark Gable ??????
Posted by: Amanda McCloy | October 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM
The man in the photo is Vincent Price
Posted by: rkrance | October 21, 2009 at 01:37 PM
I think it might be Paul Marion
Posted by: Thom B | October 21, 2009 at 04:19 PM
Paul Marion
Posted by: Kylie | October 21, 2009 at 05:20 PM
I believe the woman is Isabel Jewell
Posted by: Michael Christian | October 22, 2009 at 07:55 AM
It's his new wife Lucille Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks' niece.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | October 22, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Richard Martin
Posted by: Sonny King | October 22, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Angel Peralta
Posted by: Lana | October 22, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Our mystery man looks to me like Candy Candido, one-time bass player with "Candy and Coco," Gene Austin and Ted Fio Rito's orchestra, and later a voice actor on the Jimmy Durante radio show ("I'm feelin' mighty low!") and in Disney films.
Posted by: Randy Skretvedt | October 22, 2009 at 03:55 PM
Owen Crump
Posted by: Megan | October 22, 2009 at 05:16 PM
John Gilbert with daughter, Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Posted by: Joan Y. Compagno | October 22, 2009 at 07:09 PM