Movieland Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo  Update: This is Lawrence Gray in an undated photo. This week’s mystery guest was chosen by Daily Mirror reader Mike Hawks.

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 Evelyn Nesbit! There’s a new photo on the jump!

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: This is Lawrence Gray in a photo stamped Feb. 14, 1925. Mary Mallory says Gray’s mystery companion Mildred Harris and the film is “Dressmaker From Paris,” 1925 For Tuesday, our mystery guest has a mystery companion and what appears to be a hotel room key. Please congratulate Mary Mallory and Jenny M. for identifying him. Los Angeles Times file photo This Lawrence Gray with his future wife, Maria Luisa Figueroa, at the Ambassador, in a photo stamped Aug. 5, 1935. Here’s our mystery guest and a mystery companion (how do you like the spectacular collar on her dress?) And look! Just to his right, he’s got a straw hat. Very jaunty! Please congratulate Eve Golden for identifying him.  Los Angeles Times file photo This is Gray and Figueroa, who were married in Mexico, in a photo at the monastery at Tepoztlan. His address was 2025 N. Highland. The photo was published Aug. 8, 1935. For Thursday, our mystery guest has a mystery companion. Please congratulate Sue for identifying him. Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Lawrence Gray in an undated photo. Thanks to Mike Hawks for being this week’s mystery photo host! Here’s Friday’s picture of our mystery guest!

Comments

[Jenny M]

Buster Crabbe

[MichaelRyerson]

Bruce Cabot. Before the big monkey.

[fibber mcgee]

My guess is Billy Haines.

[Mary Mallory]

It can't be Neil Hamilton, can it?

[Julie Merholz]

Richard Arlen

[margie]

Chester Morris

[Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender]

Mr. Heston must be holding a place for Rosalind Cash. I know I would.

[Eve]

He looks kinda David Manners-y and kinda Grant Withers-y, but I don't think he is either.

[Rob]

Randolph Scott ??

[Cynthia K.]

Ralph Bellamy.

[Mark Heimback-Nielsen]

King Vidor?

[Steve Tee]

David Wayne, by any chance?

[David S.]

Scott Brady.

[Anne Papineau]

He's a nicely dressed chap.

[Lynne Levine]

Wallace Reid?

[Suzy Q]

Ralph Graves

[Mark Heimback-Nielsen]

Is it Hugh O'Connell?

[Periwinkle]

Harry Benham? If not, an amazing resemblance.

[Stacia]

Who is Mary Mallory and why is she so awesome? I hope she makes a living using that amazing knowledge of hers. That's not sarcasm, by the way, it would genuinely make me happy to know someone earns a living by identifying photos of old movie stars.

[pete nowell]

ralph graves

[Rick Scott]

Let's go for the truly obscure...Ralph Forbes with Constance Talmadge as Tuesday's companion.

[Anna]

Randolph Scott

[rick]

don't know who he is but is the woman Margaret Hamilton aka the Wicked Witch of the West?

[Rinky Dink]

Is the lady in the amazing collar Fanny Brice?

[Steven Moshlak]

Frank Overton?