Here’s another photo from the amazing collection of Steven Bibb!
[Update: This is Henry Armetta with John Garfield in “Dust Be My Destiny.”]
Just about everybody recognized one or both of our mystery guests (although Herb Nicholas threw me a curve by using the birth name of the chap on the left – went right past me). Bob Duncan was first, followed by Dewey Webb, Michael Ryerson, RJ, Richard Heft, Benito (half credit). Jenny M, Mike Hawks, William Stansel (half credit), Sarah (half credit), Mary Mallory, Gregory Moore (half credit), Gary Martin (half credit), Don Danard, Bob Hansen, (half credit) and Rick Scott.
Please congratulate Dan Nather for identifying our main mystery chap… Our mystery lady remains an enigma.
[Update: This is Henry Armetta with Catharine Doucet in “Wake Up and Dream,” 1934.]
And for Friday, our mystery fellow has a mystery companion.
[Update: This is Henry Armetta with Bobby Breen in “Let’s Sing Again.”]
The individual on the right is Henry Armetta who played a stereotyped Italian type in many films in the 1930s. He was especially funny in the Laurel & Hardy film “Fra Diavolo”…
John Garfield & Henry Armetta, maybe in Dust Be My Destiny
Well it’s clearly John Garfield on the left. Unfortunately I don’t recognise the gentleman on the right.
Henry Armetta
(with John Garfield)
John Garfield and Henry Armetta in DUST BE MY DESTINY?
Could be one of the many faces and nationalities of J. Carrol Naish.
John Garfield. Don’t know the stiff.
John Garfield and Henry Armetta in “Dust Be My Destiny.”
This is John Garfield and Henry Armetta from DUST BE MY DESTINY 1939.
John Garfield, J. Carrol Naish….Humoresque.
julie garfinkle
John Garfield, J. Carrol Naish…..Humoresque
John Garfield.
We have Tom Neal on the left and on the right I am reminded of Pedro Armenderiz but that’s a guess. Of Tom Neal’s 8000 movies i haven’t a clue which one this is.”Take the Money and Run”?
Just now seeing this. John Garfield and the great Henry Armetta.
That’s Henry Armetta on the right…not sure of the mug in the fedora. Is it from “I Stole a Million,” 1939?
On the other hand it could be John Garfield and Thomas Gomez in Detour, 1945.
Henry Armetta with John Garfield
Are they Abner Biberman and Henry Armetta?
John Garfield and Henry Armetta…the film escapes me.
Gertrude Astor
That’s Henry Armetta — on the right in the first picture, and on the left in the second . . .
kid looks like Bobby Breen
Now I get it–these stills are not even from same movie! So kid IS Bobby Breen with Armetta in (probably) Let’s Sing Again, and the gal might be Maude Eburne.
Is that lad Freddie Bartholomew?
Henry is shown here with Bobby Breen. Since they made three movies together I will vote for LET’S SING AGAIN 1936.
I think the boy is Bobby Breen?
Bobby Breen with Henry Armetta in “Fisherman’s Wharf” 1939.
John Garfield and Henry Armetta
This is adding up to verify my first assumption: the Italian fellow is Henry Armetta with John Garfield in Dust be my Destiny and in the last foto he is with Bobby Breen in Let’s Sing Again.
If I were not so lazy I would find out who the mystery lady is …Gladys George? I always recall Henry in the great bed department episode of the Marx Bros. in The Big Store.
So who is the gal?