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Sept. 13, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo 


Here’s this week’s mystery fellow with a (not) mysterious companion.

Update: I've been completely occupied with an upcoming story about the 1910 Times bombing so I haven't had a chance to post the names of everyone who has recognized our mystery guest so far. There's a lot of folks:

Dewey Webb, Carmen, Pat in Michigan, Mike Hawks, Periwinkle, Margie, Lee Ann Thom and Megan, Steve Stoliar, Herb Nichols, Julie Merholz, Barbara Klein, Lana, James Curtis, Gregory Moore, Cold in PHX, Michael Ryerson, Zabadu, Mary Mallory, Fibber McGee, Rotter, William, Grammy Flo, Eve, Anne Papineau, Richard Wegenscheide, Waldo Lydecker (where you been?), Dr. Fudd, Space Hanlon, Jenny M, Candy C, RJ, Dan Bazarian, Mark Heimback-Nielsen, Pamela Porter, Don Young, Rosalyn, Sue, Claire Lockhart, Arye Michael Bender, Roget-L.A., LC, Rick, Randy Skretvedt, Sandy, Steven Moshlak, Cathy and Stacia.

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 or Saturday. There's no need to submit your guess five times. Once is enough. The only reward is bragging rights. 

Last week’s mystery guest was Jean Negulesco!


There’s a new photo on the jump!

Sept. 14, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Here’s another photo of our mystery guest with a mystery companion. Aren’t her eyes haunting? Just about everyone identified our mystery fellow, far too many to list. Among the more amusing observations was Dewey Webb’s “it's gonna be Louise Beavers & Aline MacMahon all over again.”


Sept. 15, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Here’s our mystery guest with some very mysterious companions. I sometimes think The Times’ art department painted out and tilted photos just for something to do because, as in this case, it was entirely unnecessary. 

Sept. 16, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Here’s our mystery guest with another mystery companion.

Sept. 17, 2010, Mystery Photo  
Los Angeles Times file photo

For Friday, our mystery guest goes gunning for retouching fiends in The Times’ art department.
 
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Comments (62)

Jimmy Lydon w/ Liz (it's gonna be Louise Beavers & Aline MacMahon all over again)

James Lydon with Elizabeth Taylor - movie is Cynthia

Howard Taylor

That is Jimmy Lydon and Liz Taylor.

Sure looks like Jimmy Lydon with the young Elizabeth Taylor. He was Henry Aldrich and very well known.

James (Jimmy) Lydon with Elizabeth Taylor

Is it Jimmy Lydon and Elizabeth Taylor?

Jimmy Lydon and Elizabeth Taylor (co-stars of "Life With Father").

jimmy lydon

Jimmy Lydon and Elizabeth Taylor

Jimmy Lydon (with Elizabeth Taylor)

Jimmy Lydon

Looks like Jimmy "Henry Aldrich" Lydon to me.

Jimmy Lydon with Elizabeth Taylor?

Oh, it's Elizabeth Taylor. That was easy. Can't identify her "(not) mysterious companion," though. Usually it's the easy ones that I have a hard time with. ;-)

Jimmy Lydon wooing a beautiful young Elizabeth Taylor.

Jimmy Lydon.

Jimmy Lydon.

Jimmy Lydon and LIFE WITH FATHER?

Looks like Jimmy Lydon and Elizabeth Taylor.

Jimmy Lydon and Liz Taylor

Jimmy Lyndon

Jimmy Lydon and Liz Taylor

Jimmy Lydon?

James Lydon?

 

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