Movie star mystery photo

Posted on January 2, 2009 by lmharnisch

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Los Angeles Times file photo

Here’s our last mystery star of 2008!

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Los Angeles Times file photo 		Lots of guesses, but
none of them were correct. Our mystery guest has more than 30 credits
on imdb and  figured in the investigation of a famous murder case.

Update:
Please congratulate William (westpv) for correctly identifying our
mystery woman as Jewel Carmen. Very impressive! I’ll keep posting photos to see who
else recognizes her.

Update: Sam (sammathtchr) also recognized her. Congratulations!

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Los Angeles Times file photo 		Here’s another photo of our mystery woman, now with a mystery co-star!

Update: This is Kenneth Harlan in a scene from "Nobody."
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Photograph by the Los Angeles Times

 And here’s our mystery gal a few years later. I think her sunglasses are great.
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Photograph by the Los Angeles Times

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And here she is in 1939. Our mystery woman is Jewel Carmen. She figured in the Thelma Todd case because she  was married to Roland West and owned the buildings where Todd operated her restaurant, including the garage where Todd’s body was found. Carmen told investigators that Todd had heart disease and believed she only had a few years to live.

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20 Responses to Movie star mystery photo

  1. Unknown's avatar zabadu says:
    December 29, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Mary Miles Minter?
    Marion Davies?

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  2. AJ's avatar AJ says:
    December 29, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    Peg Entwhistle?

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  3. Unknown's avatar zabadu says:
    December 29, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Olive Thomas?

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  4. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:
    December 29, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Also think it is Mary Miles Minter.
    Although, with that amount of retouching, it could have been Lassie.

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  5. Sam's avatar Sam says:
    December 29, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Mary Pickford

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  6. Nancy's avatar Nancy says:
    December 29, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Myrna Loy

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  7. Ingred's avatar Ingred says:
    December 29, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    Claire Windsor

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  8. Mary A.'s avatar Mary A. says:
    December 30, 2008 at 6:23 am

    Mary Astor

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  9. pat's avatar pat says:
    December 30, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Edna Purviance?

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  10. Nick Santa Maria's avatar Nick Santa Maria says:
    December 30, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Mildred Davis

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  11. Nancy's avatar Nancy says:
    December 30, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    Edna Cook

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  12. Pamela Porter's avatar Pamela Porter says:
    December 30, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Mabel Normand

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  13. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:
    December 30, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Virginia Rappe.

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  14. Randolph Man's avatar Randolph Man says:
    December 31, 2008 at 9:26 am

    The heavy retouching renders this difficult. Of the published guesses Mary Miles Minter seems by far the best one. The style of everything is late 1910s, early 1920s. The shot with her male co-star is from the 1910s. Could he possibly be Wallace Reid?

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  15. william's avatar william says:
    December 31, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Lionel Barrymore? I think I’m wrong this time…cant connect these two in any productions but he looks like Barrymore to me.

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  16. Bob Duvall's avatar Bob Duvall says:
    December 31, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Mary Miles Minter

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  17. Steven Bibb's avatar Steven Bibb says:
    December 31, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Looks a little like Madge Bellamy

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  18. Cold in PHX's avatar Cold in PHX says:
    December 31, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    How about Viola Dana?

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  19. pat's avatar pat says:
    December 31, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    The mystery costar looks like William Haines.

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  20. PalmTreeKid's avatar PalmTreeKid says:
    January 1, 2009 at 8:05 am

    I think it’s Lillian Gish.

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