Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: This week’s mystery star is Sally Eilers, shown in a photo dated Dec. 14, 1929.
 Jan. 7, 1978: Sally Eilers dies at the age of 69. In case you’re wondering, I don’t intentionally have a Hoot Gibson theme going—It just worked out that way. 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: John Carroll!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Sally Eilers and Hugh Trevor in “Dry Martini.” Here’s a photo of our mystery woman with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Agnieszka, Steven Bibb and Mary Mallory for identifying her!  Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Sally Eilers in a photo dated March 26, 1937, possibly from “We Have Our Moments.” Here’s another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Lee Ann Bailey for identifying her!  Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Sally Eilers returns to the screen in “Stage to Tucson in a photo dated Feb. 11, 1951. Here’s another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Mike Hawks for identifying her – and Tuesday’s mystery companion!  Photograph by Bill Beebe / Los Angeles Times
Sally Eilers in a photo dated Nov. 9, 1962, during her divorce from TV director Hollingsworth Morse. | |
Ruby Keeler?
Posted by: Gerald McCann | January 18, 2010 at 09:09 AM
Marie Prevost
Posted by: Carmen | January 18, 2010 at 09:38 AM
Karen Morley
Posted by: Jenny M | January 18, 2010 at 09:41 AM
Sally Eilers?
Posted by: Agnieszka | January 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM
A young Sally Eilers
Posted by: Steven Bibb | January 18, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Jessie Royce Landis
Posted by: Dewey Webb | January 18, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Sue Carol?
Posted by: Nick Santa Maria | January 18, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Lillian Roth?
Posted by: Nick Santa Maria | January 18, 2010 at 01:32 PM
Nancy Carroll?
Posted by: Jeff Hanna | January 18, 2010 at 06:13 PM
Sally Eilers.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | January 19, 2010 at 12:55 AM
A Keeler sister (Helen, Gertrude, Margie)??
Posted by: zabadu | January 19, 2010 at 07:49 AM
Bebe Daniels?
Posted by: Gerald McCann | January 19, 2010 at 08:19 AM
Patsy Ruth Miller?
Posted by: Suzy Q | January 19, 2010 at 09:59 AM
Lila Lee? - second day, second guess.
Posted by: Carmen | January 19, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Doris Rankin?
Posted by: Flo Myers | January 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Viola Dana?
Posted by: Suzy Q | January 19, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Marceline Day
Posted by: Suzy Q | January 19, 2010 at 03:54 PM
Aileen Pringle
Posted by: Joan Y. Compagno | January 19, 2010 at 07:08 PM
She looks so familiar, like someone I saw in that Kevin Brownlow-David Gill documentary Hollywood years ago. But can't remember the name. Maybe it's Mary Astor.
Posted by: Cold in Phx | January 19, 2010 at 10:21 PM
Is it Sally Eilers?
Posted by: Lee Ann Bailey | January 20, 2010 at 09:09 AM
Sorry I am late, just got back from a short vacation. It is Sally Eilers.
Posted by: Mike Hawks | January 20, 2010 at 09:46 AM
Olivia de Havilland
Posted by: Sandy | January 20, 2010 at 11:37 AM
After looking at the photo from Tuesday I believe the actor with Sally is Hugh Trevor.
Posted by: Mike Hawks | January 20, 2010 at 11:52 AM
Janet Gaynor?
Posted by: Deb | January 21, 2010 at 09:10 AM
Jo Van Fleet?
Posted by: Rogét-L.A. | January 21, 2010 at 10:00 AM