Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
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[Update: Elisabeth Bergner: The German star, seen previously here as "Catherine the Great," displays her versatile genius in "Escape Me Never," at the Four Star, her art being hailed as more exquisite on the screen, even, than in the stage play, in which she appeared recently in New York, in a photo stamped June 16, 1935. |
[Update: The peasantry still flourishes! Elisabeth Bergner continues at the Four Star in the film version of the stage play "Escape Me Never," in a photo stamped June 30, 1935. ] And here she is for Tuesday!
[Update 3: BOSTON -- The time-honored procedure of makeup of the minstrel was reversed recently by Negro actor Canada Lee who made up in "whiteface" for his part as Daniel De Bosola in the revived Elizabethan drama "The Duchess of Malfi." Here, backstage at Boston's Shubert Theater, Canada Lee, made up in "whiteface" has his new face inspected by Elisabeth Bergner, female lead in the play, Sept. 30, 1946.] [Update 2: Please congratulate Dewey Webb, Lynne Levine and Lee Thom and Megan for identifying Wednesday's mystery companion and Claire Lockhart for identifying our mystery lady. ] [Update: Please congratulate Pamela Porter for identifying our mystery guest and her mystery companion!] For Wednesday, our mystery guest has a mystery companion! And here’s a closer look.
[Update: Elisabeth Bergner is scoring personal hit in "Two Mrs. Carrolls," now at the Biltmore Theater, in a photo published Jan. 28, 1946. ] And for Thursday, stripes! How about those shoulders?
[Update 2: Please congratulate Mary Mallory, Mike Hawks, Rick Scott and Dewey Webb for identifying our mystery lady and one of her mystery companions. Please congratulate Julie Merholz, Benito, Lynne Levin, Arye Michael Bender, Rick and Randy Skretvedt for identifying one of the mystery men. And congratulate Norma Desmond for identifying our mystery gal! ] [Update: Elisabeth Bergner (center) receives the Drama League's Delia Austrian Medal for distinguished performance in "The Two Ms. Carrolls," presented by the show's producer Reginald Denham (right), on behalf of the league. Victor Jory, male lead of the play, looks on (left). The award was made at the annual spring luncheon of the Drama League of New York at the Hotel Pierre, New York, May 9, 1944.] And for Friday, our mystery gal has two mystery companions! |
Elisabeth Bergner
Posted by: Dewey Webb | June 06, 2011 at 08:24 AM
Das ist Elisabeth Bergner?
Posted by: Eve | June 06, 2011 at 08:41 AM
Elisabeth Bergner?
Posted by: Steve Stoliar | June 06, 2011 at 08:44 AM
Elisabeth Bergner
Posted by: Steven Bibb | June 06, 2011 at 09:06 AM
Elizabeth Bergner?
Posted by: Anne Papineau | June 06, 2011 at 10:05 AM
The lady is Elizabeth Bergner.
Posted by: MIKE HAWKS | June 06, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Lilian Harvey? We have nothing on Ann Ainslee.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | June 06, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Jany Holt.
Posted by: Claire Lockhart | June 06, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Actually, Elisabeth Bergner, I meant to write.
Posted by: Anne Papineau | June 06, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Elizabeth Bergner?
Posted by: Gregory Moore | June 06, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Greta Nissen.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | June 06, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Elisabeth Bergner
Posted by: Jenny M | June 06, 2011 at 02:19 PM
Elizabeth Bergner.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | June 06, 2011 at 03:43 PM
Regarding White Cargo: I remember an oft quoted review from many years ago in which the critic stated that while playing Tondeleyo in White Cargo, Talullah Bankhead barged down the Nile and sank.
Posted by: gary martin | June 06, 2011 at 04:52 PM
Sorry, I confused my stories ...a sign of old age I am sure ...It was Bankhead as Cleopatra who sank. During White Cargo the actress playing Tondeleyo said: Me Tondeleyo, me go to such and such. To which reviewer Robert Benchley shouted out: "Me Benchley, me go home".
Posted by: gary martin | June 06, 2011 at 04:58 PM
We don't know how a shot (pardon the pun) from "Patty Hearst" got in here, but it sure looks like the Chicago Typewriter (machine gun) and hat from "Patty Hearst" starring Natasha Richardson, whom I adored as an actress. Happened to peruse VaVaVoom Traci Lords' book "Underneth It All" where she talks about making a movie with the real, not reel, Patty Hearst. They got along fine. "I didn't ask her about robbing banks and she didn't ask me about making porno films," she said. Walter Cronkhite's daughter Kathy played Hearst in another flick, as I recall.
Posted by: fibber mcgee | June 06, 2011 at 08:29 PM
Marlene Dietrich
Posted by: Gerald McCann | June 07, 2011 at 08:27 AM
Marlena Dietrich as played by Bernadette Peters in an imaginary casting? (Probably not)
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | June 07, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Olga Baclanova?
Posted by: hockeykevin | June 07, 2011 at 10:11 AM
Geraldine Page.
Posted by: Cynthia K. | June 07, 2011 at 11:39 AM
She looks like a European actress imported to Hollywood, like Anna Sten or Franciska Gaal, but I don't think she's either one....
Posted by: Randy Skretvedt | June 07, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Marlena Dietrich
Posted by: Sandy | June 07, 2011 at 02:41 PM
My friend John Aldrich in Phoenix says it's definitely Greta Nissen.
Posted by: Randy Skretvedt | June 07, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Don't know who guy is but looks amazingly like Godfrey Cambridge in Watermelon Man
Posted by: Dewey Webb | June 08, 2011 at 07:45 AM
Dewey's on point; the gentleman in the photo is definitely in "whiteface" (see his hand that is visible in the wider shot).
I still have no clue, but this adds a deeper element of mystery!
P~
Posted by: Pamela Porter | June 08, 2011 at 12:00 PM