Movie Star Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: This is Lillian Bond  in a 1925 photo.  She died in 1991. Please congratulate Mike Hawks and Mary Mallory for identifying her!   Dec. 20, 1930: MGM signs Lillian Bond.

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 stars: Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson! On the jump, a new photo!

Los Angeles Times file photo March 13, 1935: Lillian Bond and her mother, Harriett.  Here’s a photo of our mystery woman with a mystery companion. Los Angeles Times file photo June 29, 1935: “Lillian Bond, star of stage and screen, and Sydney Smith, New York broker-socialite, were married at Del Monte Lodge, Pebble Beach, Calif., on Friday afternoon, June 28.” Here’s our mystery woman with another mystery guest. She’s turning out to be a toughie. Los Angeles Times file photo Dec. 1, 1941: Lillian Bond in a publicity photo for “Springtime for Henry,” a play that also starred Edward Everett Horton.  Here’s our mystery woman. Please congratulate Mike Hawks for identifying her!   Los Angeles Times file photo Feb. 4, 1958: Lillian Bond and Adam Kennedy in “The Californians.”

Comments

[Carmen]

Mary Astor

[Aunt Flo]

Ethel Barrymore? Gads, look at those spit curls!

[Dewey Webb]

Billie Dove

[Cold in PHX]

Bebe Daniels?

[Mary Mallory]

Lila Lee.

[Carmen]

Marie Prevost

[Rogét-L.A.]

Virginia Patton?

[Janet Hoffmann]

Nancy Carroll

[Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender]

A young Loretta (Young) with battle-ax?

[Jeff]

It's Mrs. Bogart--Mayo Methot.

[Gerald McCann]

Billie Dove?

[Dewey Webb]

Frances Farmer's mother's twin sister w/ adopted daughter

[Mary Mallory]

Doris Kenyon.

[Eve]

Nope, I'm still stumped, after three photos.

[Mary Mallory]

Ann Hovey.

[Dennis Gilliam]

Perhaps silent star Colleen Moore, who built the great castle doll house now in Chicago.

[jane Ellen WAyne]

Virginia Cherrill

[Cold in PHX]

She's starting to look like Rita Hayworth.

[Mary Mallory]

Jean Rogers.

[Robert Howe]

My guess would be Ann Sheridan.

[Nick Santa Maria]

Betty Furness?

[Native Angeleno]

She's your best find yet, Larry. (Yum.)

[Stacia]

I knew I would kick myself for not figuring her out -- she was in "The Old Dark House", one of my favorite wacky pre-code kinda-horror films.