Movie Star Mystery Photo

Posted on July 10, 2009 by lmharnisch
 

 July 6, 2009, Mystery Photo

 Los Angeles Times file photo

Noreen Nash in "The Red Stallion," 1947. 

July 10, 2009, Mystery Star
Los Angeles Times file photo

Noreen Nash, Dec. 27, 1957

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!

March 4, 1957, Noreen Nash

 
 July 7, 2009, Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Noreen Nash, June 22, 1955. 

Here's another picture of our mystery gal!

July 8, 2009, Mystery Photo

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!

July 9, 2009, Mystery Photo

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.

July 10, 2009, Mystery Star

Los Angeles Times file photo

Noreen Nash in "Lineup," Nov. 23, 1956.

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59 Responses to Movie Star Mystery Photo

  1. bjth's avatar bjth says:
    July 6, 2009 at 9:19 am

    (A very young) Eleanor Parker?

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  2. Nick Santa Maria's avatar Nick Santa Maria says:
    July 6, 2009 at 9:57 am

    Elyse Knox?

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  3. Sue's avatar Sue says:
    July 6, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Jeanne Crain

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  4. Sue's avatar Sue says:
    July 6, 2009 at 10:43 am

    Barbara Britton

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  5. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    July 6, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Co-worker Mel (I gave up) says “Betty Jane Rhodes?”
    And we both agree she really DOES look like Barbara Britton!

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  6. Donna Hill's avatar Donna Hill says:
    July 6, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Wildly tossing out a guess, Lucille Bremer?

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  7. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    July 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Is it the hairdryer be-bonked Rita Johnson?

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  8. Victor Huntrods Brown, from across the pond in England's avatar Victor Huntrods Brown, from across the pond in England says:
    July 6, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    She seems awfully familiar but this is still a wild guess…Alexis Smith.

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  9. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:
    July 6, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    A rifle shot in the dark, Gail Davis (Annie Oakley)?

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  10. Claire Lockhart's avatar Claire Lockhart says:
    July 6, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Young Marie McDonald

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  11. Nick Santa Maria's avatar Nick Santa Maria says:
    July 6, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Lois Collier?

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  12. annie frye's avatar annie frye says:
    July 6, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    Joan Vohs?

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  13. China Gal's avatar China Gal says:
    July 7, 2009 at 9:42 am

    The eyes in the first picture remind me of Donna Reed

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  14. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    July 7, 2009 at 9:47 am

    Veronica Hurst?

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  15. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    July 7, 2009 at 9:52 am

    Mel says, “Maris Wrixon?”

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  16. rick's avatar rick says:
    July 7, 2009 at 10:04 am

    eleanor parker

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  17. LC's avatar LC says:
    July 7, 2009 at 11:15 am

    Is it Dennie Moore?

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  18. Sue's avatar Sue says:
    July 7, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    Rhonda Fleming

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  19. Donna Hill's avatar Donna Hill says:
    July 8, 2009 at 8:53 am

    Mystery companion is William Bendix. I am still clueless about who she may be!

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  20. Unknown's avatar zabadu says:
    July 8, 2009 at 8:56 am

    Well, the mystery companion today is William Bendix, right?

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  21. Jim D.'s avatar Jim D. says:
    July 8, 2009 at 9:05 am

    I don’t know who your mystery star is but her companion is William Bendix.

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  22. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    July 8, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Mel says, “Lola Albright?”

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  23. william's avatar william says:
    July 8, 2009 at 9:16 am

    gloria blondell

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  24. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:
    July 8, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Am guessing the sweater girl is Gloria Withers. That because she is standing next to the befuddled, Chester A. Riley. She’s too sexy to be Chester’s wife Peg, and about the right age to be his daughter.
    William Bendix, a great noir killer, was also superb in working class comedy. Another actor who was old when he was young.

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  25. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:
    July 8, 2009 at 10:03 am

    Riley looks as baffled as the rest of us. Could she be the even lesser-known sister of Toni Gerry?

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  26. Patty's avatar Patty says:
    July 8, 2009 at 10:08 am

    Florence Sundstrom?

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  27. Claire Lockhart's avatar Claire Lockhart says:
    July 8, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Gloria Henry with William Bendix.

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  28. Eileen's avatar Eileen says:
    July 8, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Marjorie Reynolds

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  29. Eileen's avatar Eileen says:
    July 8, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Lugene Sanders

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  30. Eileen's avatar Eileen says:
    July 8, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Veda Ann Borg

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  31. Earl Boebert's avatar Earl Boebert says:
    July 8, 2009 at 11:23 am

    Arline Judge?

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  32. Jany's avatar Jany says:
    July 8, 2009 at 11:49 am

    Anne Jeffreys

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  33. Dru Duniway's avatar Dru Duniway says:
    July 8, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Meg Randall
    William Bendix

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  34. Cathy's avatar Cathy says:
    July 8, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    Gloria Winters?

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  35. Richard Wegescheide's avatar Richard Wegescheide says:
    July 8, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    Let’s try Lugene Sanders with William Bendix.

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  36. Sandra Monty's avatar Sandra Monty says:
    July 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    Marjorie Reynolds!!

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  37. Lee Ann Bailey's avatar Lee Ann Bailey says:
    July 8, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Is it Meg Randall?

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  38. Lee Rivas's avatar Lee Rivas says:
    July 8, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Mary Phillips??

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  39. Lee Rivas's avatar Lee Rivas says:
    July 8, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Virginia Bradley?

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  40. Rinky Dink's avatar Rinky Dink says:
    July 8, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    No clue who she is, but that first picture drove me crazy because she looked so familiar. I finally figured it out: she looks like Andie MacDowell looked in a picture I saw of her years ago — not the hair, but the eyes. At least that part of the mystery is solved for me.

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  41. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:
    July 8, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Beverly Michaels.

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  42. waldo lydecker's avatar waldo lydecker says:
    July 8, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Could it be Victoria Horne?

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  43. David Warheit's avatar David Warheit says:
    July 9, 2009 at 12:06 am

    Rosemary DeCamp?

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  44. MichaelRyerson's avatar MichaelRyerson says:
    July 9, 2009 at 4:47 am

    Well, I’m going to take a flier. The ever lovely Meg Randall, who also acted under the name of Gene Roberts, seen here befuddling Chester A. Reilly?

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  45. TonyC's avatar TonyC says:
    July 9, 2009 at 7:05 am

    Nancy Kovak ?
    Only a shot in the dark.

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  46. margie's avatar margie says:
    July 9, 2009 at 7:35 am

    lori nelson

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  47. Florence Myers's avatar Florence Myers says:
    July 9, 2009 at 8:13 am

    Lugene Sanders?

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  48. Unknown's avatar zabadu says:
    July 9, 2009 at 8:42 am

    The guy with the cigar is Robert Evans.

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  49. Pat in Michigan's avatar Pat in Michigan says:
    July 9, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Dina Merrill?

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  50. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:
    July 9, 2009 at 9:18 am

    The man with the dark hair in the center is Robert Evans.

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  51. Nick Santa Maria's avatar Nick Santa Maria says:
    July 9, 2009 at 11:03 am

    Victoria Horne?

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  53. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    July 9, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    It’s your aunt Tillie, isn’t it, Larry? ‘Fess up!

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  54. Greg Clancey's avatar Greg Clancey says:
    July 9, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Lorraine Bendix?

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  55. annie frye's avatar annie frye says:
    July 9, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    I recognized William Bendix and Bob Evans, but don’t have a clue as to the rest of them. You outdid yourself.

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  56. Joan Y. Compagno's avatar Joan Y. Compagno says:
    July 9, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Virginia Mayo?

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  57. Alekszandr's avatar Alekszandr says:
    July 9, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    Gail Robbins

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  58. Joan's avatar Joan says:
    July 9, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Is it Marjorie Reynolds?

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  59. margie's avatar margie says:
    July 10, 2009 at 7:32 am

    barbara marks

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