| 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.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: The Gale sisters, Jane, June and Joan, in a photo dated Feb. 2, 1934, to publicize “Melody in Spring.”
Here’s another photo of our mystery guest (center) and two of her mystery companions.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Gregory Ratoff, June Gale and Hoot Gibson in an undated photo taken at the Vendome Cafe.
Here’s our mystery woman with some mystery companions.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Hoot Gibson and June Gale in a photo dated July 9, 1933, after Gibson was in a plane crash.
July 10, 1933: Hoot Gibson denies reports that he plans to marry June Gale
Here’s our mystery woman with an injured mystery companion. Please congratulate Dewey Webb, Mary Mallory, Mike Hawks, Lee Ann Bailey and Rick Scott for identifying our mystery woman and the above people, plus Claire Lockhart's dad, Gerald McCann, rdare, Gregory Moore and Michael Ryerson for identifying one or more of her mystery companions.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Hoot Gibson and June Gale in a photo dated April 29, 1935.
Update: Maurice Murphy in an undated photo.
The answer to last week's mystery star: Maurice Murphy!
March 18, 1923: The Times profiles Maurice Murphy and his brother Jack.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Maurice Murphy in a photo dated Nov. 8, 1935.
Here’s another photo of our mystery star. Please congratulate Mike Hawks and Greg Clancey for identifying him.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Anita Louise and Maurice Murphy in “Every Woman’s Life,” June 28, 1939.
Here's another photo of our mystery guest with a mystery companion.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: “Maurice Murphy and Alice Eden are shown in a scene from RKO
Radio’s “Career,” home-spun drama starring Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis, which pictures a cross-section of life in a small Midwestern town.
Here’s another photo of our mystery fellow with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Mike Hawks, June Dare and Dewey Webb for identifying yesterday’s mystery companion.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: “Maurice Murphy and Grant Withers as they appear in a scene from the Universal serial, “Tailspin Tommy,” directed by Louis Friedlander.”
Christmas interfered with the mystery photos, so here’s another one of our mystery guest with another mystery companion. |
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Lucille Le Sueur
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Joan Crawford
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LUCILLE LE SUEUR AKA JOAN CRAWFORD
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Sally Blane?
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Sally O’Neil
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Fanny Brice
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Dorothy Sebastian
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Joan Crawford
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Loretta Young?
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That looks like Mary Brian on the far right.
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Anita Page
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Sally Starr.
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Dale Evans
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Bebe Daniels
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Joan Crawford is the 2nd from the right, I believe.
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Today she’s with Gregory Ratoff and Hoot Gibson. I’m still working on her.
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Still working on the main mystery person, Gregory Ratoff and Hoot Gibson are pictured with her today.
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Gregory Ratoff on left
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Gregory Ratoff
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June Gale (or one of lookalike sisters Jean, Joan or Jane)
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Could this be Sally Eilers, Max Terhune (left) and her newly minted husband Hoot Gibson?
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Gregory Ratoff on the left.
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Is it Adrienne Ames?
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Joyce Compton with (l) director Gregory Ratoff
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Our mystery person is June Gale, who dated Hoot Gibson from about 1933-1936 (We have a photo of her visiting him in the hospital after his plane crash). The first photo has she and her sisters Joan, Jean, and Jane posing for POOR LITTLE RICH BOY. The Tuesday photo is with two of her sisters, maybe Joan and Jean?
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I’ll give June Gale a shot since she was in three westerns with Hoot and she had two sisters in the movies.
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Companion on left-Gregory Ratoff
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Betty Furness
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Is it June Gale and her sisters Joan, Jane, and Jean?
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Sally Eilers. My dad in England says that’s Gregory Ratoff and Hoots Gibson.
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Helen Pickens and the Pickens Sisters.
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The two mystery companions are Gregory Ratoff (left) and, I believe, Hoot Gibson on the right. The lady I can’t place, but I’ll say June Lang.
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2nd from the left, Joan Crawford.
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mary duncan
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Well, the injured mystery star is Hoot Gibson, so it must be the then Mrs Gibson, Sally Eilers!
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Joan Leslie aka Joan Brodel, and the Brodel sisters
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Sally Eilers
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Dorothy Dell
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Sally Eilers
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In the picture of the 3 ladies, are you sure the mystery lady isn’t the one on the far right? Her face looks just like the face of the woman in the 2 photos below. Or I guess if the 3 ladies are sisters, that would account for the similarity. (I have no guess, by the way; I’m terrible with faces and have often never identified stars I should know.)
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