Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
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[Update: This is Hugh Herbert, but the rest of the people in the photo are unidentified. Please congratulate Dewey Webb, Mary Mallory, Carmen, Rotter, Mark Heimback-Nielsen, Eve, Cold in Phoenix, Roget-L.A., Herb Nichols, Sarah, Julie Merholz, Randy Skretvedt, Mike Hawks, Benito, Norma Desmond and Stacia for identifying him!] Our mystery folks are making a mystery cocktail! Notice the little risers being used to lift the table! |
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Hugh Herbert
Posted by: Dewey Webb | January 27, 2011 at 07:57 AM
It's Hugh Herbert, the first honorary mayor of Studio City! Woo Hoo!
Posted by: Mary mallory | January 27, 2011 at 07:59 AM
Hugh Herbert, Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1935
Posted by: Carmen | January 27, 2011 at 08:29 AM
Hugh Herbert
Posted by: Rotter | January 27, 2011 at 09:12 AM
Well the man with the glass is Hugh Hubert but he drank in a lot of films so narrowing it down to which one might take a bit :) The pajamas are probably a great clue.
Posted by: Mark Heimback-Nielsen | January 27, 2011 at 09:15 AM
He's Hugh Herbert (woo-hoo! woo-hoo!)--is that from Dames?
Posted by: Eve | January 27, 2011 at 09:28 AM
The guy making the cocktail looks like Hugh Hebert.
Posted by: Cold in PHX | January 27, 2011 at 09:40 AM
I mean, Hugh Herbert.
Posted by: Cold in PHX | January 27, 2011 at 09:44 AM
Hugh Herbert, as stated previously. The movie is "Love Begins At Twenty"
Directed by Frank McDonald.
Posted by: Rotter | January 27, 2011 at 09:45 AM
Hugh Herbert is the actor pouring the cocktail. The film could be either "Eternally Yours" (1939) or "Private Affairs" (1940).
Posted by: Rogét-L.A. | January 27, 2011 at 09:52 AM
Noel Coward in "The Scoundrel"?
Posted by: Pat in Michigan | January 27, 2011 at 09:53 AM
hugh herbert in ?
Posted by: herb nichols | January 27, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Hugh Herbert in Dames?
Posted by: Sarah | January 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Looks veddy British to this Midwestern farm boy. Maybe the 1930s. Perhaps a Scotch and soda?
Posted by: Fibber McGee | January 27, 2011 at 10:56 AM
The mystery cocktail maker is Hugh Herbert.
Posted by: Julie Merholz | January 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM
The gentleman making himself a drink is comedian Hugh Herbert. He's prominent in Warner Brothers films from about 1933-38, Universal films in the '40s, and Columbia shorts from the late '40s to early '50s. I love that blimp over the camera!
Posted by: Randy Skretvedt | January 27, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Just got back from vacation. The man is Hugh Herbert, probably the late 1930's.
Posted by: MIKE HAWKS | January 27, 2011 at 11:32 AM
Hugh Herbert, wealthy collector of snuff boxes and dames, in Gold Diggers of 1935? PS Flashy robe, dude
Posted by: benito | January 27, 2011 at 02:11 PM
could it possibly be...hugh herbert?
Posted by: normadesmond | January 27, 2011 at 06:27 PM
I rarely get a chance to check in before the answers are posted, but yes, this is my arch nemesis Hugh "Mumblypants" Herbert. I don't think we get to see that shelf very well in the film -- at least I never noticed it before -- and it is absolutely gorgeous.
Posted by: Stacia | January 28, 2011 at 01:45 AM
Hugh Herbert had perhaps the funniest hands in the movies. He was one of the first character actors I came to recognize and love as a kid. Always looked forward to seeing him 'woo-hoo-hoo'.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | January 28, 2011 at 10:30 AM
BTW: The wider version of those table risers, after about 1940, became known as Alan-Ladds, for obvious reasons.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | January 28, 2011 at 06:31 PM