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Update: This is Polly Walters! Congratulations to Mike Hawks and Mary Mallory (who not only identified Polly, but even named the photographer. Very impressive!) And thanks to Eve for suggesting her!
Here’s our mystery guest. Last week’s mystery woman was Diane Baker and the weekend mystery guest was Mary Astor, late in her career. I took a closer look at a photo from “Return to Peyton Place” and found another page of her notorious diary in The Times archives!
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Los Angeles Times file photo |
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Here’s another photo of our mystery gal. Please congratulate Mike Hawks for identifying her!
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Los Angeles Times file photo |
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Here’s another photo of our mystery gal. And a shout-out to Eve Golden for suggesting her (and that’s why Eve doesn’t get credit for identifying her!) |
Mary Carlisle
Posted by: Rance Ryan | November 17, 2010 at 10:25 AM
The lady is Polly Walters
Posted by: Mike Hawks | November 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Lee Patrick
Posted by: Robert S. Levinson | November 18, 2010 at 09:35 AM
These actresses from the 30s are always so made-up, I can't tell one from another. Somewhat true of actors, too.
Posted by: Greg Clancey | November 18, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Noel Francis.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | November 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Is it Rosemary Davies?
Posted by: Mark Heimback-Nielsen | November 18, 2010 at 01:08 PM
Mae Clarke? (No grapefruit please!!!)
Posted by: Steven Moshlak | November 18, 2010 at 01:26 PM
Mary Astor in Escape From Peyton Place (but seriously, whoever she is, she's a natural beauty!)
Posted by: Dewey Webb | November 18, 2010 at 02:47 PM
Busby Berkeley nymphet # 842A.
Posted by: Native Angeleno | November 19, 2010 at 09:30 AM
Is it Ona Munson? She played Belle Watling in GWTW.
Posted by: Sharon | November 19, 2010 at 09:53 AM
It's Polly Walters. I believe all three photos were taken by Elmer Fryer, and is the first photo possibly from EXPENSIVE WOMEN?
Posted by: Mary Mallory | November 19, 2010 at 10:32 AM
I'm kicking myself because I know I've seen her recently, but have no idea where. Could have been a blog, could have been YouTube, could have been TCM. The world will never know.
Posted by: Stacia | November 20, 2010 at 03:21 AM
Round 2 - Joan Blondell?
Posted by: Steven Moshlak | November 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM
She IS kinda obscure, but a genuinely wonderful deadpan comic actress. She was in a dozen or so early '30s Warner Bros. movies, usually playing bored-to-death, whiny switchboard girls or models, and stole every scene she was in.
Posted by: Eve | November 20, 2010 at 04:16 PM
DANGIT. I know where I saw her now: "Smart Money", which I watched earlier this year. Such a short career. I wonder why? She seems perfect for small parts in the background of 1930s WB films.
Posted by: Stacia | November 20, 2010 at 08:28 PM