Movie Star Mystery Photo

 

 

 May 25, 2009, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Paul Lukas in a 1927 photo.

Aug. 17, 1971, Paul Lukas

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. 

The answer to last week's mystery star: Trixie Friganza!

May 26, 2009, Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo

Lukas in "Little Women."

Here's another picture of our mystery guest. Please congratulate "Laura" fan Waldo Lydecker, who correctly identified him.

May 27, 2009, Mystery Photo

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!

May 28, 1959, Mystery Photo

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?

 
May 29, 2009, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Lukas in a photo published Aug. 16, 1971.

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55 Responses to Movie Star Mystery Photo

  1. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    I’m going to say Lew Cody, but he looks like he’s wearing Eastern European dress.

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  2. bjth's avatar bjth says:

    Joseph Schildkraut?

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  3. Horace Langford Jr's avatar Horace Langford Jr says:

    look a lot like Alec Guiness

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  4. LC's avatar LC says:

    You really know how to rack one’s brains with these photos. I hate when I know someone and can’t put my finger on it.
    I am going to say Jonathan Hale.

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  5. Eve's avatar Eve says:

    Nertz. You got me stumped; I’m not even going to hazard a guess. Maybe after another photo or two . . .

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  6. waldo lydecker's avatar waldo lydecker says:

    I would say that it’s a young Paul Lukas!

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  7. lana's avatar lana says:

    John Gilbert

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  8. Judy Browning's avatar Judy Browning says:

    Hans Conried?

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  9. Eve's avatar Eve says:

    Is he Olin Howland?

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  10. Elsie's avatar Elsie says:

    Paul Lukas?

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  11. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    Paul Lukas
    *First Photo does not look anything like Paul Lukas but what a wonderful photo!
    Second is from Little Women and Paul was the professor!

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  12. Claire Lockhart's avatar Claire Lockhart says:

    Paul Lukas

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  13. Joan Myers's avatar Joan Myers says:

    Is this Paul Lukas?

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  14. karen's avatar karen says:

    Rossano Brazzi ?

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  15. Zooey's avatar Zooey says:

    Paul Lukas?

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  16. Nick Santa Maria's avatar Nick Santa Maria says:

    Paul Lukas

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  17. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:

    An original member of The Mercury Theater, Everett Sloane.

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  18. Patty's avatar Patty says:

    Clifton Webb????

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  19. Annmarie's avatar Annmarie says:

    Grant Mitchell

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  20. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:

    In the second picture, he’s starting to look like David Daniel Kaminski. Is it Danny Kaye?

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  21. Gary Hertzberg's avatar Gary Hertzberg says:

    I think it’s the 6th Stooge – Emil Sitka.

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  22. Bob Birchard's avatar Bob Birchard says:

    Paul Lukas

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  23. Bob Birchard's avatar Bob Birchard says:

    Paul Lukas

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  24. Lee Ann Bailey's avatar Lee Ann Bailey says:

    Is it Paul Lukas?

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  25. Paul Cardinal's avatar Paul Cardinal says:

    Paul Lukas

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  26. Rosalyn's avatar Rosalyn says:

    Paul Lucas

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  27. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Paul Lukas.

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  28. Sheila's avatar Sheila says:

    Walter Pidgeon?

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  29. Donna Hill's avatar Donna Hill says:

    Paul Lukas?

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  30. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    Larry: just got back to work today. Paul Lukas Best, Mike Hawks

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  31. Eliza's avatar Eliza says:

    Richard Price? David Niven?

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  32. juile's avatar juile says:

    oooh oooh oooh, is it Conrad Nagel?

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  33. Eve's avatar Eve says:

    Paul Lukas?

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  34. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    The second photo is from LITTLE WOMEN (1933). Was the first photo from one of his Hungarian productions?

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  35. MichaelRyerson's avatar MichaelRyerson says:

    Well, I think Paul Lukas.

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  36. Nancy Benedict's avatar Nancy Benedict says:

    Paul Lukas

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  37. annie frye's avatar annie frye says:

    Edwin Carewe

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  38. Ted's avatar Ted says:

    Ronald Coleman

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  39. Tony Lucia's avatar Tony Lucia says:

    Paul Lukas

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  40. Tony Lucia's avatar Tony Lucia says:

    Paul Lukas

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  41. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    I think this photo might be from his Hungary days. He wears a costume very similar to the first photo in the film THE WOMAN FROM MOSCOW (Paramount, 1928), but his character doesn’t have a mustache and it looks like he has brown hair not blond.

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  42. Cinnamon Carter's avatar Cinnamon Carter says:

    Warren William

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  43. herb nichols's avatar herb nichols says:

    paul lukas

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  44. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    Mystery companions?
    Wild guess – Stage and Movie Director of “Watch on the Rhine,” Herman Shumlin and wife.
    Earlier mystery companion with glasses – Sinclair Lewis, writer of “Dodsworth”. This is fun!

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  45. Sue's avatar Sue says:

    It’s Robert Elliott

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  46. juile's avatar juile says:

    how ’bout Paul Lukas then?

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  47. annie frye's avatar annie frye says:

    Paul Lukas is the mystery photo, I believe, and Roland Young is one of his companions (I think)

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  48. Patricia van Hartesveldt's avatar Patricia van Hartesveldt says:

    Still can’t figure out our Mystery Man! But his male companion looks like Leo G. Carroll.

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  49. Dru Duniway's avatar Dru Duniway says:

    Tom Conway

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  50. Cynthia Keillor's avatar Cynthia Keillor says:

    Brian Aherne.

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  51. Alekszandr's avatar Alekszandr says:

    Paul Lukas

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  52. Jeff Hanna's avatar Jeff Hanna says:

    Paul Lukas

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  53. Sonny King's avatar Sonny King says:

    Paul Lucas

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  54. B.J. Allender's avatar B.J. Allender says:

    Paul Henreid

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  55. Vincent's avatar Vincent says:

    Paul Lukas appeared on TCM earlier this week, playing — of all people — Philo Vance, the “society sleuth” portrayed by William Powell, Basil Rathbone and several others:
    http://community.livejournal.com/carole_and_co/209508.html

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