Movie Star Mystery Photo

     Jan. 18, 2010, Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: This week’s mystery star is Sally Eilers, shown in a photo dated Dec. 14, 1929.

Jan. 7, 1978, Sally Eilers

Jan. 7, 1978: Sally Eilers dies at the age of 69.  In case you’re wondering, I don’t intentionally have a Hoot Gibson theme going—It just worked out that way.

 
 

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: John Carroll!

Jan. 19, 2010, Mystery Photo Los Angeles Times file photo  

Update: Sally Eilers and Hugh Trevor in “Dry Martini.”

Here’s a photo of our mystery woman with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Agnieszka, Steven Bibb and Mary Mallory for identifying her!

Jan. 20, 2010, Mystery Photo Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Sally Eilers in a photo dated March 26, 1937, possibly from “We Have Our Moments.”

Here’s another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Lee Ann Bailey for identifying her!

Jan. 21, 2010, Mystery Photo Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: Sally Eilers returns to the screen in “Stage to Tucson in a photo dated Feb. 11, 1951.

Here’s another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Mike Hawks for identifying her – and Tuesday’s mystery companion! 
 
Jan. 22, 2010, Mystery Photo Photograph by Bill Beebe / Los Angeles Times 

Sally Eilers in a photo dated Nov. 9, 1962, during her divorce from TV director Hollingsworth Morse.
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25 Responses to Movie Star Mystery Photo

  1. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:

    Ruby Keeler?

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  2. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    Marie Prevost

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  3. Jenny M's avatar Jenny M says:

    Karen Morley

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  4. Agnieszka's avatar Agnieszka says:

    Sally Eilers?

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  5. Steven Bibb's avatar Steven Bibb says:

    A young Sally Eilers

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  6. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Jessie Royce Landis

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

    Sue Carol?

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

    Lillian Roth?

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  9. Jeff Hanna's avatar Jeff Hanna says:

    Nancy Carroll?

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  10. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Sally Eilers.

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  11. Unknown's avatar zabadu says:

    A Keeler sister (Helen, Gertrude, Margie)??

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  12. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:

    Bebe Daniels?

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  13. Suzy Q's avatar Suzy Q says:

    Patsy Ruth Miller?

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  14. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    Lila Lee? – second day, second guess.

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  15. Suzy Q's avatar Suzy Q says:

    Viola Dana?

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  16. Suzy Q's avatar Suzy Q says:

    Marceline Day

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  17. Joan Y. Compagno's avatar Joan Y. Compagno says:

    Aileen Pringle

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  18. Cold in Phx's avatar Cold in Phx says:

    She looks so familiar, like someone I saw in that Kevin Brownlow-David Gill documentary Hollywood years ago. But can’t remember the name. Maybe it’s Mary Astor.

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

    Is it Sally Eilers?

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  20. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    Sorry I am late, just got back from a short vacation. It is Sally Eilers.

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  21. Sandy's avatar Sandy says:

    Olivia de Havilland

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  22. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    After looking at the photo from Tuesday I believe the actor with Sally is Hugh Trevor.

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  23. Deb's avatar Deb says:

    Janet Gaynor?

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  24. Rogét-L.A.'s avatar Rogét-L.A. says:

    Jo Van Fleet?

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