| 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: Marie Mosquini!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: As a few people guessed, this is John Carroll and Movita.
“SCREEN LOVERS – Although Movita and John Carroll are a love team on the screen, in private life, Movita is Mrs. Jack Doyle, wife of the Irish Thrush. The film sweethearts appear together in Monogram’s ‘Wolf Call,’ ” according to the back of a photo stamped June 13, 1939.
Here's another photo of our mystery guest with a mystery companion.
Nearly everybody has recognized our fellow and yesterday’s mystery companion. Please congratulate Jane Ellen Wayne, Lee Ann Bailey, Carmen, Eve Golden, Dewey Webb, Claire Lockhart, Nick Santa Maria, rdare, Mike Hawks, Dan Bazarian, Michael Ryerson, Steve Stoliar, Benito, Fibber McGee, Waldo Lydecker, Jenny M, Gerald McCann, Jeff Hanna, John Hall and Don Danard for identifying one or both of them!
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: “Cut Yourself a Slice of Throat” according to the back of a photo of John Carroll, Eleanor Powell and Ann Sothern in “Lady Be Good” stamped Oct. 12, 1941.
Here’s another photo of our mystery fellow with two elegant mystery companions.
Please congratulate Herb Nichols, Flo Myers, Steffi, Candy C, Rick Scott and Mary Mallory for identifying our mystery fellow. Yesterday’s mystery companion is a little more problematic.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: This is a silver-handled whip (a gift from Eva Peron) that figured in a 1959 legal dispute over money John Carroll received from an elderly widow. And yes, his tie is painted on.
Many congratulations on recognizing the mystery companions, especially Carmen, the only one to identify the mystery lady in Tuesday’s photo! Also congratulations to Dewey Webb, rdare, Mike Hawks, Annie Frye, LC, Angus, Margie (partial credit), Glen Frank (partial credit), Sylvia Peatman, Rinky Dink, Rosalyn, Lee Rivas, Sandy Reed and Flo Myers.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: John Carroll in 1964 with Miss Mission Hills, Linda Carpenter.
Aug. 2, 1964: Carpenter wins the title of Miss Mt. Baldy. The last winner of the Miss Mt. Baldy contest listed in The Times was Lianne Fulmer in 1969. The last winner of the Miss Mission Hills contest listed in The Times was Patricia Jean Dunivant in 1972.
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Steffi Duna and John Carroll
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Is it John Carroll and Steffi Duna?
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Actor John Carroll and Steffi Duna
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Well, he’s John Carroll; don’t know who she is.
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Guy looks to be John Carroll
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Steffi Duna and John Carroll
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Stefi Duna and John Carroll?
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John Carroll and possibly Steffi Duna
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John Carroll & Steffi Duna
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The gentleman is Edmund MacDonald, aka “Blackie” in Flying Tigers. The lady will take more time.
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The temporarily happy couple are Steffi Duna and John Carroll.
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John Caroll (Actor). Enjoy your column immensely !
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This is John Carroll and, I believe Steffi Duna.
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Is it Steffi Duna?
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Take two: the gentleman is John Carroll, who often wore a pith helmet in his movies.
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The dude sure looks like John Carroll, “Flying Tigers.”
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O.K. I’ll try for both. Steffi Duna and John Carroll!
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Is the man John Carroll?
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The gentleman is John Carroll.
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Male is Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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John Carroll
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The male is John Carroll who did many films at MGM and Republic. He played Zorro in a Republic serial and appeared opposite John Wayne in “Flying Tigers” and Abbott & Costello in “Rio Rita”.
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john carroll and steffi duna
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Brian Donlevy!
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Tom Neal?
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John Carroll?
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John Carroll
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John Carroll
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John Carroll
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I feel left out and behind! It’s John Carroll with his wife Steffi Duna in Monday’s photo, and today he’s with Ruth Hussey.
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The new ladly isn’t Gail Patrick, is it?
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Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern
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Eleanor Powell, John Carroll, Ann Southern Lady Be Good (1941)
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Movita, yesterday’s mystery companion. Eleanor Powell and Ann Southern are today’s mystery guests.
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Today’s companions are Eleanor Powell and Ann Sothern, the film LADY BE GOOD.
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I knew it was John something…..it finally came to me this morning. John Carroll.
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I believe the ladies are Eve Arden and Ann Sothern with John Carroll
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Eve Arden, Ann Sothern, John Carroll
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Eleanor Powell, John Carroll, & Ann Southern in Lady Be Good
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The woman in the first photo – Steffi Duna with John Carroll.
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The lucky fellow surrounded by all that beauty is John Carroll, supposedly kept in reserve by MGM because of his resemblance to Clark Gable. In Wednesday’s photo he’s flanked by Eleanor Powell and Ann Sothern (this must be a still from ‘Lady Be Good.’)
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Alan Marshal.
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billy de wolfe
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Wednesday’s picture:
Eleanor Powell, Billy de Wolfe, Ann Sothern
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Eleanor Powell, Dick Simmons, and Ann Sothern in “Thousands Cheer” 1943
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John Carroll. Please credit Sylvia Peatman if answer is correct.
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Is the lady on the right in Wednesday’s photo Ann Southern?
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Eve Arden, John Carroll, Ann Sothern
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Ann Southern is the mystery threesome on the right,
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John Carroll…in Wednesday’s picture he is with Eleanor Powell and Ann Southern.
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I think that’s Eleanor Powell and Ann Southern in the last picture
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Ernie Kovacs?
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William Cagney, with Lupe Velez and Claudette Colbert???
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actor: John Carroll
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Ernie Kovacs?
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Is the lady from Tuesday’s photo Movita?
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John Carroll
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I believe it is Movita in the Tuesday picture, possibly as they pose for ROSE OF THE RANCHO. Yesterday’s photo is of Ann Sheridan and Eleanor Powell in LADY BE GOOD.
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Francis Lederer & Margo?
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John Carroll
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A young Dyan Cannon – last mystery companion?
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In the photo with 2 ladies, Eleanor Powell is on the left. Looks like Ann Sothern on the right.
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