Movieland Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo    As nearly everyone realized, this is Evelyn Nesbit, the subject of a recent Paul Coates column.

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 is Madge Bellamy! There’s another photo on the jump!

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: This is Evelyn Nesbit and ex-husband Jack Clifford in a photo marked June 24, 1917. Here’s Tuesday’s photo of our mystery guest with a mystery companion. And it turns out she’s not much of a mystery. Nearly everybody has identified her! Please congratulate Steve Stoliar, CatM, Mary Mallory, Evelyn, Eve Golden, Anne Papineau, Mark Heimback-Nielsen, Mike Hawks, Gregory Moore, Arye Michael Bender, Virginia Hollender, Benito, Virginia Jauregui, Jenny M, Ronald Emmis, Sarah, Anna, Sue, Pete Nowell and Dennis Gilliam.   Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Evelyn Nesbit and former husband Harry K. Thaw in a photo marked June 9, 1926. For Wednesday, we have our mystery guest with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Stacia, Claire Lockhart, Pamela Porter and Dewey Webb for identifying her and congratulate Mary Mallory and Sarah for identifying Tuesday's mystery companion. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Evelyn Nesbit and Joan Collins on the set of "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" in a photo marked July 24, 1955. "Miss Nesbit is confined to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital suffering from severe gastric attack," according to the caption information. And for Thursday, our mystery guest has a mystery companion – although I suppose just about everyone is going to identify this picture. I’m pleased that the Daily Mirror has such literate readers! Please congratulate Mark, Randy Skretvedt, La Peregrina, Patricia van Hartesveldt and Carol Gwenn for identifying her. And congratulate Gregory Moore and Randy Skretvedt for identifying Wednesday's mystery companion. Photograph by Ed Lundberg / Los Angeles Times Update: Evelyn Nesbit is "shown working over bust she created. She has booth at the ceramics show at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium," according to the caption information, dated July 30, 1954. For Friday, here’s our mystery guest with some of her artwork! Please congratulate Julie Merholz, Cold in PHX and Rick Scott for identifying our mystery woman. And congratulate Mary Mallory, Carol Gwenn, Mike Hawks, Arye Michael Bender,  Steven Moshlak and Randy Skretvedt  for identifying her mystery companion. Photograph by George R. Fry / Los Angeles Times The sparsely attended funeral of Evelyn Nesbit at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Brentwood, Jan. 20, 1967.

Comments

[Steve Stoliar]

Is it Evelyn Nesbit?

[Anne Papineau]

Elizabeth McGovern?

[CatM]

Evelyn Nesbit?

[Mary Mallory]

Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw?

[fibber mcgee]

Well, the tiger's name is Larry....

[evelyn]

evelyn nesbit

[Eve]

Ah! The delectible Evelyn Nesbit, with one "t!"

[Anne Papineau]

She looks just like Evelyn Nesbit but that seems too easy.

[Mark Heimback-Nielsen]

Is it Evelyn Nesbit?

[Barbara Klein]

Jane Novak

[william]

Claudia Cardinale

[Mike Hawks]

The lady looks like Evelyn Nesbit.

[benito]

Barbara LaMarr?

[Gregory Moore]

Evelyn Nesbittt?

[Anne Papineau]

Joan Collins portrayed Eveyln in the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing.

Is it a retro-styled Joan??

[Gerald McCann]

Helen Hayes!

[Arye Michael Bender]

She's the girl in the red velvet swing, Evelyn Nesbit. Have no idea who the tiger is.

And there's no truth in the rumor that she was seeing Ray Milland. He would have been way to young for her.

[Diane Ely]

Adrienne Barbeau?

[Virginia Hollender]

Evelyn Nesbitt

[benito]

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. She was tough but her kimono and the rug gave her away. Joan Collins played her in The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing, shown recently on cable.

[virginia jauregui]

Is it Evelyn Nesbitt?

[Jenny M]

Evelyn Nesbit

[Ronald Emmis]

Hey, folks, that can be only one woman:

Evelyn Nesbit, the "girl in the red swing."

Her lover, Harry K. Thaw, shot Stanford White over her. And he almost completely got away with the killing.

Ronald Emmis

[RJ]

Valerie Allen ?

[Sarah]

Evelyn Nesbit!