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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's mystery star: Noreen Nash!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Here's another picture of our mystery star. Please congratulate Steven Bibb and Dewey Webb for identifying her!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Here's another picture of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Jeff Hanna for identifying her!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Here's our mystery woman with (not much of) a mystery companion. Please congratulate Jane Ellen Wayne, Mike Hawks, Anne Papineau, Claire Lockhart, Rance Ryan, Carmen, Cinnamon Carter, "Laura" fan Waldo Lydecker and Mary Mallory and co-worker Sue for identifying her. (And Zabadu, whom I overlooked earlier!)
Update: This is actress and author Noreen Nash. Please congratulate Sue
Willahan for identifying her. (Sue explains that her mother went to
school with Nash).
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's mystery star: John Loder!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Noreen Nash, June 22, 1955.
Here's another picture of our mystery gal!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Noreen Nash and William Bendix in "The Life of Riley," Aug. 8, 1959. "Riley is surprised when 'Pat Davidson' turns out to be a beautiful girl and worries about how to break the news to his wife that 'Pat" will ride in his carpool."
So far I seem to have stumped everybody. I never know how hard the mystery guests are going to be until I post them. Today, she has a mystery companion!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Robert Evans, Lynne Frederick Sellers, left, novelist Noreen Nash Siegel and her husband, Dr. Lee Siegel, staff physician at 20th Century Fox, Nov. 9, 1980.
Here's our mystery woman with a couple of mystery guests. I can't believe I have stumped everybody but evidently I have. I never know how difficult the mystery photos are going to be until I post them.
Update: As nearly everyone has guessed, this is John Loder. Above, a photo published Oct. 5, 1928, with a story saying that he was making his U.S. screen debut in a talking picture for Paramount, "Half an Hour." which was released as "The Doctor's Secret."
John Loder, 90; Debonair Star of '30s, '40s
January 20, 1989
By BURT A. FOLKART, Times Staff Writer
John Loder, the aristocratic
and debonair romantic star of films that began with early American
silents and extended over more than three decades, has died at the age
of 90.
The New York Times said in its Thursday editions that he
died somewhere in England late last month. Further details were not
available.
Born John Lowe in York, England, Loder's off-screen
persona was often as fascinating as the tweedy, pipe-smoking gentlemen
of leisure he normally portrayed on the screen.
The third of his five wives was Hedy Lamarr, and newspaper clippings of the 1930s and '40s dwell more on his marriages and social activities than they do his films.
Born the son of a British general, he attended Eton and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before serving as a lieutenant with the 15th Hussars in North Africa, France and Turkey during World War I. He was a prisoner of war for a time and titled his 1977 autobiography "Hollywood Hussar."
In 1926 he played a subordinate role to German starlet Marlene Dietrich in a dance scene in Alexander Korda's "Madame Wants No Children."
By
the early 1930s he was making pictures in both Hollywood and Europe and
appeared in Paramount's early talkie, "The Doctor's Secret" in 1929.
He
continued to make films in both his adopted land (he became a citizen
of the United States in 1947) and his native England until 1970, when
he was seen in "Cause for Alarm," his first on-screen role in a decade.
That was his final credit.
In all he appeared in more than 60
films. He probably will best be remembered for his work as the eldest
son in "How Green Was My Valley," opposite Lamarr in "Dishonored Lady" and in the lachrymose classic "Now Voyager" which starred Bette Davis.
His other pictures included the 1937 version of "King Solomon's Mines," Alfred Hitchcock's "Sabotage," "Lorna Doone," "Gideon of Scotland Yard" and "Passage to Marseilles."
Loder's fifth and last wife was Julia Lagomarsino, widow of an Argentine cattle rancher. For a time they made their home in both Argentina and England.
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's mystery star: Lois Wilson!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Merle Oberon and John Loder in "Thunder in the East," June 9, 1935.
Here's our mystery fellow with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Jany, "Laura" fan Waldo Lydecker, Mary Mallory, Megan Bailey and Jeff Hanna for correctly identifying him!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: John Loder and his wife Micheline Cheirel, Nov. 30, 1940.
Here's another pictures of our mystery guest with a mysterious companion. Please congratulate Don Danard, Donna Hill, Dewey Webb, Eve Golden and co-worker Mel, Carmen, Sue, Claire Lockhart, Grant Lockhart (are you guys related?), Nancy Price, William, Roget-L.A., LC, Michael Ryerson and Cinnamon Carter for identifying him.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: John Loder and Hedy Lamarr, right, at the baptism of their daughter Denise, held by Bette Davis, with the Rev. J. Herbert Smith at All Saints Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, April 9, 1946.
And another picture of our mystery guest with some mystery companions. Please congratulate Mike Hawks, Barbara Klein, Candy C and Ann Turpin for correctly identifying him.
Los Angeles Times file photo
An undated photo of John Loder and his "better half" thanks to The Times' art department.
Update: As many people guessed, this is Lois Wilson. Above, a publicity still from "The Covered Wagon," July 16, 1924.
Lois Wilson; Star of Early Silent Movies
March 9, 1988
By PAUL FELDMAN, Times Staff Writer
Early
screen star Lois Wilson, who acted in many important silent Paramount
productions, including the 1923 Western epic, "The Covered Wagon," has
died at age 93, it was reported Tuesday.
Miss Wilson, who succumbed to pneumonia in Reno, came to Hollywood in 1915 after winning a statewide beauty contest in Alabama.
She
soon wangled a small part in "The Dumb Girl of Portici," which starred
legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova, and went on to act in more than 100
silent and sound films over the next 33 years.
Her best known
roles included Molly Wingate in "The Covered Wagon" and Daisy Buchanan
in the 1926 version of "The Great Gatsby," for which she won the
Photoplay magazine best performance award.
In other features, Miss Wilson acted opposite such stars as Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert.
After
retiring in 1941--except for a bit part in the forgettable 1949 comedy
"The Girl from Jones Beach," starring Ronald Reagan--Miss Wilson turned
to the Broadway stage, road company productions, including "The Women"
for 57 weeks, and, eventually, television.
Among the network soap operas in which she played featured character roles were "The Guiding Light" and "The Edge of Night."
Although
she never wed, Miss Wilson, a 5-foot-5 brunette, was once described as
cultivating a screen image of the "soft, marrying kind of woman."
Selected
in 1924 by Paramount to represent the motion-picture industry at the
British Empire Exposition, studio officials termed her "a typical
example of the American girl in character, culture and beauty."
She
was also typical, for that era anyway, in fudging on her age. While
various studio publicity accounts have listed her year of birth as
anywhere from 1896 to 1902, her actual birthday was June 26, 1894,
according to officials at the Riverside Hospital for Skilled Care in
Reno, where Miss Wilson died March 3.
Born in Pittsburgh to an
English father and a Bostonian mother, Miss Wilson attended grammar and
high school in Birmingham, Ala., where her family moved when she was a
toddler.
Earning a teaching certificate at Alabama Normal
College, Miss Wilson briefly taught in rural schools before winning the
beauty contest and coming west to enter a contest to publicize the
newly founded Universal City.
Miss Wilson parlayed her role in
"The Dumb Girl of Portici" into a contract with Paramount and the role
of leading lady in a series of J. Warren Kerrigan films, including "The
Covered Wagon." Her other film credits included roles in Valentino's
"Monsieur Beaucaire," "Ruggles of Red Gap," "The Vanishing American,"
and her personal favorite, the 1921 "Miss Lulu Bett."
Miss
Wilson made her stage debut in Los Angeles in 1928 and moved to New
York a decade later, appearing on the Broadway stage in such plays as
"Farewell Summer," "Chicken Every Sunday," and, in the late 1960s, "I
Never Sang for My Father."
After retiring, Miss Wilson returned
to North Hollywood, where she shared a home with a sister. She later
moved near her niece, Sheila Fitzmaurice Shay, in Reno, according to
nephew George C. Lewis.
Miss Wilson was buried at Forest Lawn
Memorial-Park, Glendale, on Monday after a memorial service at the
Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills.
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's mystery star: Toni Gerry!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Lois Wilson and Holmes Herbert in "Another Scandal," Sept. 18, 1924.
Here's another photo of our mystery guest ... with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Donna Hill, Dewey Webb, Anne Papineau, Eve Golden, Mike Hawks, Carmen, Mary Mallory, Cinnamon Carter, Dru Duniway and Sandy Reed for identifying her!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Lois Wilson and Leo Carrillo in "Obey the Law," Feb. 10, 1933.
Here's our mystery woman with another mystery companion. Please congratulate Anne Frye for identifying her!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Lois Wilson and Jimmy Dunn at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in an undated photo.
Here's our mystery woman with another mystery companion. Please congratulate Alekszandr, Eric Yockey, Juliet, Barbara, "L.A. Confidential" fan Rolo Tomasi, Margaret, Claire Lockhart, Mary Mallory, William and Sue for identifying her.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Lois Wilson and a mystery companion Sept. 11, 1979
A solid majority wants to know the name of our mystery woman. She is Toni Gerry. Above, a 1958 publicity photo from "Broken Arrow."
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
Update: Gerry in a publicity photo for "Boots Malone" with William Holden.
Here's another picture of our mystery guest!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Gerry in a 1956 publicity photo for "Day of Triumph."
Here's another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Lee Ann Bailey for correctly identifying her!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Dorothy Ames, Gerry and Liberace in 1955. Gerry is wearing $1 million worth of jewelry as a publicity stunt for the premiere of the famous 1950s TV show "The Millionaire." Here's to John Beresford Tipton!
Here's our mystery guest with some mystery companions.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Gerry in a 1956 episode of George Sanders Mystery Theatre titled "The Call."
Memory Play
One-Woman Drama Tells of Love, the Holocaust and Survival in Biographical 'Hanna Speaks'
May 6, 1988
By MIKE WYMA, Mike Wyma is a frequent contributor to Valley View.
Toni Gerry; Veteran Actress Appeared in 150 TV Shows
August 1, 1991
Toni Gerry, an actress who once said "my credits read like a TV
Guide for the 1950s," has died after a long struggle with bone cancer.
Her husband, Hal Stiller, said this week that Miss Gerry was 65 when she died July 25 in a Los Angeles hospital.
Born
in Utah where she became stage-struck after playing "Snow White" in a
high school play, she began her professional career when agent Paul
Kohner discovered her in 1949 at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Her
first credits came in the infancy of TV in such landmark series as
"Hallmark Hall of Fame" and "Lux Video Theatre." In all she played
leads or supporting parts in more than 150 shows, among them "The
Millionaire," "The Loretta Young Show," "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars,"
"Wanted Dead or Alive," "National Velvet," "Mr. and Mrs. North," "Sea
Hunt" and more.
Her dozen feature films include "Lust for Life" (as Johanna), "Boots Malone" and "Bullet for Joey."
Most
recently she had been on stage locally in "Hanna Speaks," a one-woman
show she also wrote based on the true story of two Jewish lovers
separated by World War II.
Besides her husband, she is survived by her daughter, Lisa, and a sister.
When
it comes to stories of love and heartbreak--and, miraculously, love
once more--it's hard to match Hanna Kohner's. "I have been very lucky,"
she marvels. And yet, few people have endured so much misfortune.
Her
story--separated from her first love by the rumblings of World War II,
widowed from the second by the Holocaust, and nearly dying herself,
only to be reunited with her first love--is told in "Hanna Speaks," a
play running Sunday afternoons through May 29 at the Chamber Theatre in
Studio City.
It is a one-woman show starring actress Toni Gerry,
who also wrote the script. The director is Mike Road, who said the
play's structure is unusual yet simple.
Gerry talks to the
audience, Road explained, "but it's not an audience she's talking to,
it's relatives and friends. Someone says, 'What happened to you in
Europe 40 or 50 years ago?' so she tells them."
Hanna Bloch was
15 and Walter Kohner 20 when they met while ice skating in their native
Czechoslovakia. The year was 1935, and the two gradually fell in love.
By 1938 they were engaged, but as Jews they saw trouble ahead.
Anti-Semitism was spreading throughout Europe.
Tried to Follow
Walter
had a brother in the United States who would sponsor his immigration,
and he left to start a new life. Hanna tried to follow, but she was
stopped by Hitler's invasion of her homeland and, later, his invasion
of Holland, where she had fled.
Separated from her family,
sinking into poverty, Hanna kept up a correspondence with Walter. But
by 1942, their letters grew less frequent. Occupied Amsterdam was rife
with talk of deportation of Jews to concentration camps. In this
climate of desperation Hanna fell in love with Carl Benjamin, a young
German Jew, and married him.
They were together two years, much
of it in detention camps, before being sent separately to Auschwitz,
where Benjamin was killed. Hanna survived, in part because friends
performed an abortion on her. They knew that as part of the "final
solution," the Nazis gave the extermination of pregnant Jews a high
priority.
Walter, meanwhile, was a U.S. soldier stationed in
Luxembourg. He still yearned for Hanna and, through a combination of
persistence and luck, found her in 1945. They married, moved to Los
Angeles and had a daughter. Today the couple lives in Bel-Air. Hanna is
68, Walter is 73. They attended a recent performance of "Hanna Speaks."
Feelings Return
Hanna said that watching the play brought back all the feelings of the war years.
"The
time that's passed doesn't make any difference," she said. "It's always
been my life and it always will be. I remember it very well."
Director
Road said the play differs from other one-person shows, such as Hal
Holbrook's portrayal of Mark Twain, James Whitmore's Harry Truman or
Henry Fonda's Clarence Darrow.
"This is a narrative," Road said.
"This is a memory piece. To take something that's memory and present it
as drama is a very different kind of form."
Both Road and Gerry
acted on television in the 1950s and early '60s. After appearing in "77
Sunset Strip," "The Roaring '20s," and other shows, Road branched into
voice-over work in cartoons and commercials.
"I was directing all the time in theater," he said, adding that the stage is his first love.
Gerry,
who said her credits "read like a TV Guide for the '50s," appeared in
"Schlitz Playhouse of Stars," "Wanted Dead or Alive," "Perry Mason" and
others.
"When my daughter was born in 1962, I decided to become
a full-time mother," Gerry said. "Then when she was old enough, I
wanted to act again. But at my age good parts are hard to come by. I
was looking for a project, and I thought of Hanna's story."
The
common thread in the lives of Toni Gerry and Hanna Kohner was Hanna's
brother-in-law, Paul Kohner, one of Hollywood's most successful agents.
Over the years his Kohner Agency represented Ingmar Bergman, Max Von
Sydow, Charles Bronson, Debra Winger, Liv Ullmann and others.
Paul
Kohner came to Los Angeles from Czechoslovakia in 1921 to work for Carl
Laemmle, then president of Universal Pictures. The two had met at a
Czech health spa, where Laemmle was a guest and Kohner a cub reporter
for a Czech entertainment newspaper.
Kohner provided the
sponsorship affidavit needed by his brother Walter in 1938 to immigrate
to the United States. He also was Gerry's first agent, signing her
after seeing her perform at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1949. Paul Kohner
died this year at 85.
'Hanna and Walter'
A third
Kohner brother, Frederick, author of the books that led to the "Gidget"
movies, also figures in the story. Before his death in 1986, Frederick
helped Hanna and Walter write an account of their turbulent war years.
It was that book, "Hanna and Walter," published by 1984 and translated
into a half-dozen European languages, that Gerry thought of when she
needed an acting project.
"I adapted it to the stage," she said. "A lot of it is sections of Hanna talking that I took straight from the book."
"Hanna
Speaks" runs 53 minutes, not including the intermission. A production
of the Meridian Theatre and Academy, the play opened in the 37-seat
Chamber Theatre on April 3. Audience response, said Gerry, has been
emotionally charged.
"We emphasize the love story, but it's
still a Holocaust story. Some of it--like when Hanna is sitting alone
in an attic in Holland, wearing the sealskin coat her mother gave her
and wondering how all this separation came to pass--it's really quite
powerful."
Labor Camps
Hanna said that in addition
to her first husband, family members killed at Auschwitz included her
mother, father and several aunts and uncles. Hanna spent only one month
in the infamous death camp but was imprisoned at other sites, called
transit or labor camps, for much of the war.
She said she might
have avoided the ordeal if she and Walter had married in 1938, when he
had the papers necessary to leave Czechoslovakia and she did not.
"We
talked about it, of course, but for him to go to America with a new
wife and no job and not a penny to his name, it seemed too much. At
that time he was an actor. What prospects does an actor have? We
thought I could get out later. We all were blind to a certain extent.
By the time we realized it, it was too late."
Jews desperate to
leave Europe before and during World War II faced two
obstacles--immigration quotas imposed by nations such as the United
States, and the frequent refusal of German occupying forces to grant
exit permits. There was a randomness, a "craziness," said Hanna, to the
fate of people like herself.
A stroke forced Walter Kohner to
retire last year from his job as an agent at his brother's business.
Although the stroke did not impair him physically, it affected his
ability to put thoughts into words. He said he does speech therapy
exercises daily and is improving.
While the play is about Hanna,
and much of the suffering was hers, Walter is responsible for the
storybook ending. Although Hanna had given up any thought that they
would be together, Walter had not. When he found her in Amsterdam in
April, 1945, after the Germans had withdrawn, seven years had passed.
Asked why he hadn't married someone else in the meantime, Walter shrugged.
"I dated other girls," he said, "but it just wasn't the same."
Photograph by Gordon Wallace / the Los Angeles Times
Update: Our mystery star is Ana Bertha Lepe, shown above in 1953! Please congratulate Cinnamon Carter, Dewey Webb and Mary Mallory for correctly identifying her.
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
Update: As many people guessed, this is Susan Hampshire! Above, Hampshire in a publicity photo for "The Fighting Prince of Donegal," 1966.
Please congratulate Sue, Michael Christian, AJ, Virginia Jauregui and Susan Farrell for correctly identifying her!
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's mystery star: Paul Lukas!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Hampshire in "During One Night," 1962.
Here's our mystery woman. Please congratulate Anne Papineau, Julie, Joan Myers, CandyC and Dewey Webb for correctly identifying her!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Hampshire in "The Trygon Factor," 1969.
Here's our mystery woman with a disembodied hand holding a break-top revolver. (No, just The Times' art department heavily retouching the picture). Could that be an Enfield or is it some really ancient pistol you wouldn't dare fire with modern ammo? We'll have to dig through our file of firearm reference photos. (Nope, not an Enfield. Looks more like a Harrington & Richardson .32).
Please congratulate Sue, Carmen, Barbara Klein, Claire Lockhart, Mike Hawks, Lisa Mateas, Margie MacDuff, LC, Bruce, Megan Bailey, Jeff Hanna and Carole for correctly identifying her!
Update: As many people guessed, this is Paul Lukas. Above, Lukas' obituary, Aug. 17, 1971.
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
Here's another picture of our mystery guest. Please congratulate "Laura" fan Waldo Lydecker, who correctly identified him.
Photograph by the Los Angeles Times
Lukas and Deputy Dist. Atty. Percy Hammon discuss the conspiracy trial of Vilma Aknay and Sari Fedak over a lawsuit against playwright Ernest Vajda.
Here's another photo of our mystery star with a mystery companion! Please congratulate Alexa Foreman, Elsie, Carmen, Claire Lockhart, Joan Myers, Zooey, Nick Santa Maria, Bob Birchard, Lee Ann Bailey and Paul Cardinal for recognizing him!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Lukas greets Thomas Mann and his wife at Warner Bros., Oct. 5, 1943.
Many people have identified our mystery guest, including Eve Golden, Michael Ryerson and Tony Lucia. Who are his mystery companions?
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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
Update: Friganza as the "Flapper Grandma" in "The Clinging Vine," Nov. 2, 1924.
Here's our mystery gal with her fancy radio. Check out the horn on the speaker. Please congratulate Eve Golden and Mary Mallory for correctly identifying her!
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Friganza in "The Charmer," April 5, 1925.
Here's another photo of our mystery gal. Please congratulate Bob Birchard and Nick Santa Maria for correctly identifying her.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Sophie Tucker visits Friganza, who is bedridden with arthritis, Dec. 15, 1952.
Our mystery woman is ill and receives a visit from an old friend. Please congratulate Mike Hawks for correctly identifying our mystery gal.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Friganza celebrates her 82nd birthday, Nov. 30, 1953.
Update: Marjorie Rambeau in "Merely Mary Ann," 1915.
Here's a mini-mystery: The caption information on this undated photo says this is Rambeau with director Richard Wallace on a Corinne Griffith picture titled "Broadway Blues." Aha. This is from "Syncopatin' Sue," 1926.
Just
a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and
reveal the answer on Friday. 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. There's no need to submit your guess
five times. Once is enough. The only prize is bragging rights.
Update: Marjorie Rambeau in "The Night Duel," 1926. This was unidentified in The Times photos, so I didn't realize it was from a play when I posted it.
Look out! The dame's got a gun! Please congratulate Eve Golden and Carmen for correctly identifying our mystery woman.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Marjorie Rambeau and Franklin Pangborn in "In His Arms," a play, 1929.
Here's our mystery woman with a mystery companion -- OK, well he's not terribly mysterious, is he? Please congratulate Dewey Webb for recognizing our mystery gal.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Marjorie Rambeau in "Tugboat Annie Sails Again," 1940.
Yes, this is really her. Please congratulate Don Danard and Paul Cardinal for correctly identifying our mystery guest.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Marjorie Rambeau with George Raft in "Broadway," 1942.
OK, I said I would identify our mystery woman today. But I'm having so much fun with these old pictures I'm going to drag it out until tomorrow.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Marjorie Rambeau in "The Palm Springs Story," 1964. Notice the meticulous detail The Times' art department used to paint out Robin Hayes, 3. Look closely. The artist filled out the pattern in Rambeau's blouse.
Larry Harnisch. The leading Black Dahlia expert and a collaborator in the 1947project, Harnisch has been a copy editor at The Times since 1988. He has appeared on many TV shows discussing the Dahlia case, notably "James Ellroy's Feast of Death."
Join him for a spin through old Los Angeles in the Mirror's radio car. Keep your eyes open for Mickey Cohen and Tempest Storm. It's quite a ride.
The reporter's badge belonged to Sid Hughes (1908-1958), legendary reporter who worked at nearly every newspaper in Los Angeles.
Keith Thursby. Keith has been an editor at The Times in news, sports and design since 1986. The Rams moved to St. Louis on his first day as assistant sports editor of the paper's Orange County edition. He grew up in Norwalk and lives in Irvine.
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Larry Harnisch. The leading Black Dahlia expert and a collaborator in the 1947project, Harnisch has been a copy editor at The Times since 1988. He has appeared on many TV shows discussing the Dahlia case, notably "James Ellroy's Feast of Death."
Join him for a spin through old Los Angeles in the Mirror's radio car. Keep your eyes open for Mickey Cohen and Tempest Storm. It's quite a ride.
The reporter's badge belonged to Sid Hughes (1908-1958), legendary reporter who worked at nearly every newspaper in Los Angeles.
Keith Thursby. Keith has been an editor at The Times in news, sports and design since 1986. The Rams moved to St. Louis on his first day as assistant sports editor of the paper's Orange County edition. He grew up in Norwalk and lives in Irvine.