| |
Los Angeles Times file photo |
|
Our mystery guest has some (not) mysterious companions. Please congratulate Mike Hawks and Mary Mallory for identifying him and yesterday’s mystery companion.
|
| |
Los Angeles Times file photo |
|
[Update: This is identified on the back of the print as a 1912 Keystone comedy. From left, Carmen Phillips, Sidney Franklin, Hale Studebaker, Helen Holmes, Arthur Traveras, Bert Hahn, Ford Sterling, Nick Cogley and Dot Farley, published May 31, 1936. The film appears to be “On His Wedding Day,” although imdb gives different spellings (Bert Hunn, Arthur Tavares)) and identifies Chester Franklin rather than Sidney.
[No luck in finding the original story, alas. The photo looks like it was published in a rotogravure section that perhaps wasn’t microfilmed. What was a rotogravure section? From much of the 20th century, newspapers published Sunday supplements, called “rotogravure sections,” on better paper with higher quality photo reproduction.]
I couldn’t resist running one more photo of our mystery guest – he has so many mystery companions! All told, Mike Hawks, Mary Mallory, Joan, Sarah and Arye Michael Bender have identified him – and sundry companions who may or may not be mysterious.
|
|
This is Milton Sills and Ford Sterling from the 1923 version of THE SPOILERS.
Posted by: Mike Hawks | December 18, 2010 at 08:53 AM
Milton Sills and is that Ford Sterling taking his photograph?
Posted by: Mary mallory | December 18, 2010 at 09:13 AM
Is this from THE CRASH with Thelma? And if so, is that Wade Boteler taking Milton's photo? I love the still camera.
Posted by: Mary mallory | December 18, 2010 at 09:26 AM
howard hughes
Posted by: herb nichols | December 18, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Jean Hersholt?
Posted by: Anne Papineau | December 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Fat chance I could beat Mary and the Hawkman, but the top photo is Milton Sills and Ford Sterling.
Posted by: Joan | December 19, 2010 at 08:34 AM
hal roach
Posted by: herb nichols | December 19, 2010 at 10:05 AM
Oooo, ooo, lemme get one:
Ben Turpin.
Posted by: Native Angeleno | December 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM
It's Ralph Staub. The second picture is from "Keystone Hotel" (1935), and shows Hank Mann, Chester Conklin, Marie Prevost, Ralph Staub, Ford Sterling, and Ben Turpin.
Posted by: Sarah | December 19, 2010 at 10:18 AM
The first still looks to be from 'Greed'. Can easily ID Andy Clyde, Ben Turpin, and Ford Sterling in the second still. Others haven't left the tip of my tongue yet. They may remain there for all of eternity.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | December 19, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Is that Harry Gribbon between Ford and the woman in the veil? Leo White with the mustache? The minister looks familiar, but no name is coming.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | December 20, 2010 at 09:22 AM
Is it Ford Sterling?
Posted by: Mark Heimback-Nielsen | December 20, 2010 at 09:44 AM
Max Sennet?
Posted by: Gerald McCann | December 20, 2010 at 10:27 AM
The 2nd picture:
1. I know someone said this was Hank Mann, but I think it's Bert Roach, based entirely on the nose. I could be wrong. Those fabulous moustaches often throw me off.
2. Chester Conklin
3. Marie! After all the times people guessed Marie Prevost as the mystery guest, she finally makes an appearance.
4. Ralph Staub
5. Ford Sterling
6. Ben Turpin
This is a publicity shot from "Keystone Hotel" from 1935. Since you already posted the answer to this photo, though, I don't really know who you're looking for as far as the mystery guest goes.
Posted by: Stacia | December 21, 2010 at 02:56 AM
One of them looks like Snub Pollard...
Posted by: Barry O'Brien | December 21, 2010 at 07:28 AM
Re: ON HIS WEDDING DAY, all the imdb credits come from my book Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, and are correct. The 1936 Times photo caption (thanks to Sam Gill for bringing it to my attention years ago--he had a copy) mistakes Sidney for his older brother Chester Franklin, who it really is. (Chester then left Keystone as an assistant director and went to Universal-Sterling Comedies with Ford, where he brought his brother Sidney into movies as his assistant--both became famous directors.) "Hunn" and "Tavares" are the correct real spellings. (Arthur Tavares became and editor and one of his credits as editor was the Spanish-language version of DRACULA--he was bilingual.)
Posted by: Brent Walker | December 22, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Re the other photos:
Milton Sills and Ford Sterling in THE SPOILERS as Mike says....
KEYSTONE HOTEL (L-R): Hank Mann, Chester Conklin, Marie Prevost, Ralph Staub, Ford Sterling, Ben Turpin
Posted by: Brent Walker | December 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM