Movie Star Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo  Our mystery guest is Vera Lewis, above, in a photo dated Aug. 27, 1916. Feb. 12, 1956: Lewis dies at the age of 82. June 14 1925: Elinor Glyn says Vera Lewis is the reincarnation of Empress Sophia Maria!

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: Bob “Bazooka” Burns! There’s a new photo on the jump!

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Vera Lewis in an undated photo. Here’s another photo of our mystery woman – looking very proper with a parasol. Please congratulate Nick Santa Maria, Lee Ann Bailey and Eve Golden for identifying her.  I’m always impressed by the knowledge of the Daily Mirror readers. Nice going! Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Vera Lewis in a 1927 photo. Here’s another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Carmen and Bronski for identifying her!   Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Vera Lewis in “Nancy Drew -- Detective,” 1938.  Here’s another picture of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Don Danard for identifying her! Los Angeles Times file photo Vera Lewis, left, with Mia Marvin and Jackie Searl in a photo stamped Aug. 23, 1934.

Comments

[Carmen]

A young Helen Broderick?

[MichaelRyerson]

a youthful Hope Emerson.

[Mary Mallory]

Flora Finch?

[Eve]

Day-um. Well, she's not Clara Kimball Young or Mary Garden, though she looks a bit like them; and the photo was taken ca. 1910s . . . Must put my thinking cap on.

[Mary Mallory]

Charlotte Greenwood.

[Sandy]

The expression, and the whole getup, call to mind Margaret Dumont, Groucho's recurring foil...
"It's a gala day for you."
"Well a gal a day's enough for me."

[Anne Papineau]

Madame Glyn?

[Anne Papineau]

Minerva Urecal??

[Gerald McCann]

Fanny Brice and Nicki Arnstein?

[Mike Hawks]

My guess is Mary Garden.

[Sharon]

I was sure it was Fanny Brice, but now that I look at the picture more, I am guessing Charlotte Green. If not, maybe it's Marjorie Main?

[Jeffrey Speicher]

Judith Anderson

[Mary Mallory]

Judith anderson.

[Mary Mallory]

Elinor Glyn.

[jane Ellen WAyne]

Agnes Moorhead

[Allison Francis]

Elinor Glyn?

[Dewey Webb]

Helen Westley

[Eve]

I find myself tickled no end that so many people remember the great Madame Glyn! I'm off to re-read "Three Weeks" (" . . . her lips were red, Red, RED!").

[Pat in Michigan]

Margaret Mann

[CatM]

Eleanor Lawson?

[Julie Merholz]

Isabel Randolph

[Mary Mallory]

Emily Fitzroy.

[Diane Warren]

Especially in the third photo, she looks like Tom Baker in drag!

[Janet Hoffmann]

Wild guess, Kathryn Sheldon

[Joan Y. Compagno]

Helen Menken