Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: As many readers realized, this is Milton Sills. Although there’s no caption information on the back, the photo is evidently from “The Sea Hawk.”
Sept. 16, 1930: The Times reports the death of Milton Sills.
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: Jane Frazee!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Milton Sills and Gertrude Olmstead in “Puppets,” Aug. 22, 1926.
Here’s another photo of our mystery star with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Eve Golden, Joan Myers, Mary Mallory, Mike Hawks (who says "this one is too easy") and Donna Hill for identifying him.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Milton Sills and Mary Astor in “The Runaway Enchantress” or “The Sea Tiger,” April 3, 1927.
Here’s our mystery guest with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Don Danard, Rick Scott, Carmen and Suzy Q for identifying him.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Milton Sills and Corinne Griffith in “Single Wives.”
Here’s our mystery fellow with another mystery companion. Please congratulate Stacia, Laura Aikens and Christa for identifying him and Jeff Hanna, Michael Ryerson, Mike Hawks, Carmen and Don Danard for identifying yesterday's mystery companion.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill in “The Barker,” Jan. 6, 1929. | |
Wallace Reid
Posted by: Carmen | November 16, 2009 at 09:10 AM
Francis X. Bushman?
Posted by: Barry O'Brien | November 16, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Brandon Hurst
Posted by: william | November 16, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Looks very much like Cecil Parker to me.
Posted by: Victor H Brown, across the pond in England. | November 16, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Noble Johnson
Posted by: Claire Lockhart | November 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM
After one rash guess I'll try Vincent Price.
Posted by: Victor H Brown, across the pond in England. | November 16, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Oooh! Milton Sills from one of my favorite silent films, The Sea Hawk!
Posted by: Donna Hill | November 16, 2009 at 01:45 PM
Mitchell Lewis?
Posted by: rick | November 16, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Paul Henreid.
Posted by: Karen | November 16, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Despite the period look of the pic, I'm going much more contemporary: Gary Oldman?
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | November 16, 2009 at 05:15 PM
Conrad Veidt?
Posted by: gerald mccann | November 17, 2009 at 07:50 AM
Edward Everett Horton
Posted by: Cynthia K. | November 17, 2009 at 09:42 AM
I know it can't be, but he looks like Bill Engvall. A relative, perhaps?
Posted by: Rogét-L.A. | November 17, 2009 at 09:48 AM
John Barrymore
Posted by: Lana | November 17, 2009 at 09:57 AM
Monte Blue.
Posted by: Megan | November 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM
William S. Hart
Posted by: Joan Compagno-Wright | November 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM
William Boyd
Posted by: JOHN C MARSHALL | November 17, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Dustin Farnum
Posted by: Greg Clancey | November 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Guessing at Milton Sills
Posted by: juile | November 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Dick Powell?
Posted by: Sharon | November 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Edgar Everett Horton?
Posted by: Rosalyn | November 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Milton Sills
Posted by: Suzy Q | November 17, 2009 at 03:38 PM
I would have gotten this yesterday, first thing, but I only just had the time to look at it.
Posted by: Suzy Q | November 17, 2009 at 03:40 PM
Milton Sills
Posted by: CARMEN | November 17, 2009 at 03:59 PM
How about Milton Sills?
Posted by: Rick Scott | November 17, 2009 at 04:48 PM