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Update: This is Creighton Hale in a photo dated Feb. 17, 1924. He died in 1965.
Aug. 12, 1923: Newcomer Creighton Hale is making a picture with "Ernest" [Ernst] Lubitsch. [ProQuest shows that The Times frequently misspelled his name].
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: Milton Sills!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Creighton Hale and Irving Cummings in an unidentified photo dated March 4, 1924.
Here’s our mystery fellow with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Carmen, Mike Hawks, Nick Santa Maria and newcomer Vidor Fan for identifying him.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Jun 16, 1929: Creighton Hale in a publicity photo for “Paris Bound,” a play produced at the Hollywood Music Box.
Here’s another photo of our mystery star!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Creighton Hale, Kent Smith and Ann Sheridan in “The Sentence,” later changed to “Nora Prentiss,” April 9, 1947.
Our mystery fellow and some mystery companions. Please congratulate Mary Mallory for identifying him. And special congratulations to Mike Hawks for identifying Tuesday’s mystery companion.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Creighton Hale and his Boston terrier in an undated photo. Please congratulate Dewey Webb, Don Danard, Jenny M., Michael Ryerson, Gregory Moore, Stacia, Thom B and Alexa Foreman for identifying him.
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Creighton Hale - Happy Thanksgiving Week to all!
Posted by: Carmen | November 23, 2009 at 09:09 AM
DICK POWELL
Posted by: Paul Cardinal | November 23, 2009 at 09:12 AM
Wallace Reid
Posted by: Barbara Klein | November 23, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Fred MacMurray
Posted by: william | November 23, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Douglas MacLean.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | November 23, 2009 at 09:19 AM
For some reason, the photo reminds me of Bob Cummings.
Posted by: zabadu | November 23, 2009 at 09:26 AM
He's got Neil Hamilton's hair.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | November 23, 2009 at 09:50 AM
The man is Creighton Hale.
Posted by: Mike Hawks | November 23, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Creighton Hale.
Posted by: Nick Santa Maria | November 23, 2009 at 10:10 AM
He's so far away it's hard to tell--is he Donald Keith?
Posted by: Eve | November 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Looks like Donald Keith
Posted by: Virginia Jauregui | November 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM
BTW: The photo retouch master makes it look like the mystery guest's head is in a guillotine. Hard to play a sax when your head is about to roll.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | November 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I'm going to guess Creighton Hale.
Posted by: Vidor Fan | November 23, 2009 at 04:31 PM
al jolson
Posted by: JM GREEN | November 23, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Ben Lyon.
Posted by: Mary mallory | November 23, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Wow, he looks completely different in Photo 2. I am kinda stumped, but will wildly guess Harrison Ford? (No, not the current one, the 1920s one!)
Posted by: Eve | November 24, 2009 at 09:32 AM
The angle doesn't allow for detection of a famous cleft, but Tuesday's mystery companion could be the young, yet to be debonaire, Archie Leach (when he still was Archie Leach).
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | November 24, 2009 at 09:54 AM
man on right charley chase?
Posted by: JM GREEN | November 24, 2009 at 12:56 PM
George K. Arthur
Posted by: Pat in Michigan | November 24, 2009 at 01:21 PM
William Boyd
Posted by: gerald mccann | November 24, 2009 at 05:12 PM
Darn, he looks so familiar it's driving me crazy, but I cannot pin him down. He'd be in his 40s in the 1920s, by the looks of him, but darned if I can put a name to him. I'll feel a right prat on Friday, I'm sure. "Oh--HIM!"
Posted by: Eve | November 25, 2009 at 09:20 AM
It's Creighton Hale. Now I have to work on what movie is the second one. Melbourne Spurr is one of my favorite still photographers from that era. VidorFan is my coworker Sue, who helped me guess a previous MSMP.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | November 25, 2009 at 09:35 AM
Just a hunch with photo #2, is this a candid of Hale with director Irving Cummings on the set of RIDERS UP?
Posted by: Mike Hawks | November 25, 2009 at 09:58 AM
Neil Hamilton
Posted by: Paul Cardinal | November 25, 2009 at 10:06 AM
We have today's photo in the Hollywood Museum Collection. I think Monday's photo is promoting the WAMPAS Frolic Ball, because it looks like he's wearing the same suit and has the same saxophone as he poses with other people and the poster.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | November 25, 2009 at 12:05 PM