| 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 reward is bragging rights.
The answer to last week's mystery star: Signe Hasso!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Daria Massey in a photo published Jan. 24, 1956.
Here’s another photo of our mystery star!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: “Her Cup of Tea: Pixie-like Daria Massey, as Jennie Dexter, marries the fabulous ‘Lucky’ Baldwin, who makes his fortune in mining investments in the ‘Death Valley Days’ TV film ‘The Man Who Was Never Licked.’ ”
Here's another picture of our mystery woman!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: John Payne and Daria Massey in “The Restless Gun,” Monday, Nov. 3, 1958.
Here's our mystery woman with a [not very] mysterious companion.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Daria Massey in a photo published May 17, 1959.
Of course, the biggest mystery about Daria Massey is what became of her. There’s nothing in The Times clips after 1961, when the paper reported that she was married to David Lee Joesting on the set of Jerry Lewis’ “The Ladies Man.” Her last credit on imdb is a 1963 appearance in “McHale’s Navy.”
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Gigi Perreau?
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Simone Simon?
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is it Ann Blyth?
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Shirley Temple….teenage. I know I’m wrong!
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Gloria Winters of Sky King (Penny) and Life of Riley (original Babs) fame?
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Gloria Jean?
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shirley temple
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Mitzi Gaynor
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Angie Dickinson
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Cecile Aubrey
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Joan Evans
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Somebody from the ‘perky’ era.
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Bibi Osterwald
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Annette Fabrege
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Jean Simmons?
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Gloria Jean
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Ann Blythe
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Connie Stevens
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Piper Laurie
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Gale Storm
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mona freeman
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ann rutherford
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Is it Jean Heather?
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Wanda Hendrix
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This is a deduced guess based on seeing her with John Payne (minus spit curl): Daria Massey?
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Veda Ann Borg?
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Well, that’s John Payne, so my sleuthing has led me to believe it’s Daria Massey.
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John Payne is easy, could the girl be his daughter Julie Payne?
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Daria Massey
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Daria Massey?
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John Payne and Daria Massey in the episode of his TV show called “Bonner’s Squaw.”
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I think this is Daria Massey. And her not so mysterious companion is John Payne, probably in an episode of The Restless Gun (Bonner’s Squaw?).
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HOLD THE PRESSES! Daria Massey?
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Yvonne Furneaux?
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Hi. Love your blog. Look forward to the mystery photo each week. I found something on Daria Massey online that might help you in finding out what happened to her. Here’s the link.
http://www.reelcowboys.org/RC_members.php
There is a picture of her about halfway down. Not sure how recent that photo is though.
Keep up the good work!
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I went through the guest stars of “Restless Gun” last night trying to figure out who this was, and Daria Massey was the only one who fit — her character’s name is “Running Fawn” — but I was so certain the Mystery Star was a teen actress from the late 1940s that I decided it wasn’t Massey at all.
Now I’ll never figure out who it was that she reminded me of.
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Please re-check your filmography source. Daria Massey did “The Miracle” with a young Roger Moore (The Saint and James Bond) and doesn’t show-up in the filmography for “The Miracle of Fatima,” or “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”
Also she starred under the direction of John Ford {Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Grapes of Wrath (1940), etc.], and in 1951, starred in Fireside Theater with Hamilton Camp [Heavan Can Wait (1972)], not Rosemary DeCamp (That Girl).
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Daria Massey in 2008 still looks beautiful and still has a nice figure. The location was in Studio City, CA at a school reunion. We go back to 1948 through 1954 as High School seniors.
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Daria Massey is alive and well and living in Los Angeles, and still quite a looker. I saw her a couple of months ago at her son’s house, who is a good friend of mine.
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I just saw Daria in “Sea Hunt” last night. What a beauty! Movie goers really lost out when she stopped acting in the early 60’s.
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