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Update: Our mystery person this week is Trixie Friganza, who died in 1955. Above, Friganza in "Canary Cottage, May 21, 1916.
Just I have to approve The answer to last week's mystery star: Marjorie Rambeau.
Los Angeles Times file photo
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.
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. |
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marie provost?
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Paula Negri
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On second thought, Alice Brady?
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Ethel Barrymore
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Trixie Friganza?
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Trixie Friganza
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sophie tucker?
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Larry: Trixie Friganza. Mike
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Mary Garden?
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Re: most recent pic of the mystery gal. Still can’t bring her name to mind, but the big blond on the left is indeed Sophie Tucker & looks like it was taken in the late ’40s or early ’50s.
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mystery gal’s pal is Sophie Tucker
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The friend is Sophie Tucker.
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I still don’t know main subject but I believe the ‘old friend’ who visits is Sophie Tucker.
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Zeffie Tilbury ?
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I think it must be Sophie Tucker. I’d never seen an early photo. Bless her heart, “The last of the red hot mamas”.
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Franklin Pangborn as a pallbearer? Now I am impressed.
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