Mystery Photo

  
April 5, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: This is vaudeville star Kitty Doner in a 1925 publicity photo. Doner died Aug. 26, 1988, in Los Angeles at the age of 92. 

Dec. 23, 1925, Kitty Doner

Dec. 23, 1925: Kitty Doner appears as a man in “Twenty Minutes in Paris” at the Orpheum.  
 
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: Sandra Giles!

There’s another photo on the jump.


Dec. 26, 1913, Kitty Doner

Dec. 26, 1913: Kitty Doner gives advice on how to relax.

April 6, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Here’s another picture of our mystery star. Please congratulate Mary Mallory and Randy Skretvedt for identifying her.

April 7, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: This is Kitty Doner and her brother Ted in “Lady Be Good” in a photo marked Sept. 27, 1925. 

Here’s another photo of our mystery woman with a mystery companion. Please congratulate Pat in Michigan for identifying her.

April 8, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Kitty Doner and her chorus boys in “Lady Be Good,” July 12, 1925.

Here’s our mystery lady with eight mystery companions.

April 9, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Kitty Doner and her brother Ted in a 1925 photo.

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24 Responses to Mystery Photo

  1. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Hetty King.

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  2. Eve's avatar Eve says:

    Wild shot in the dark: Helen Ferguson?

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  3. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    Good Morning! Is it Josephine Baker?

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  4. Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender's avatar Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender says:

    The transgender version of Harry Langdon?

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  5. Teresa Sadorus's avatar Teresa Sadorus says:

    The lady in the mystery photo is Bebe Neuwirth

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  6. Barbara Klein's avatar Barbara Klein says:

    Dolores Del Rio

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  7. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:

    Sylvia Sidney?

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  8. jane Ellen WAyne's avatar jane Ellen WAyne says:

    Marion Davies

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  9. Cynthia K.'s avatar Cynthia K. says:

    Colleen Moore.

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  10. Cold in PHX's avatar Cold in PHX says:

    Imogene Coca.

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  11. It looks like Mabel Normand.

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  12. LeeInOceanside's avatar LeeInOceanside says:

    Joan Crawford

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  13. william's avatar william says:

    lotte lenya

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  14. Allison Francis's avatar Allison Francis says:

    Ella Shields?

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  15. Barbara Klein's avatar Barbara Klein says:

    Polly Moran

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  16. Stacia's avatar Stacia says:

    I think I’m wrong, but I’m goin’ for it anyway: Patsy Kelly.

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  17. James Curtis's avatar James Curtis says:

    Louise Fazenda?

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  18. william's avatar william says:

    agnes ayres

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  19. Julie Merholz's avatar Julie Merholz says:

    oops-Fanny Brice

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  20. David Warheit's avatar David Warheit says:

    Nellie Wallace

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  21. Eve's avatar Eve says:

    Toothy lass, what? Nope, with every day, I have less and less of a clue as to who she is.

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

    Beatrice Lillie?

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  23. Chris Morales's avatar Chris Morales says:

    Is the “chorus boy” in the upper right hand corner Bing Crosby?

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  24. Erin Menath's avatar Erin Menath says:

    That’s my great aunt, Kitty Doner with her brother Ted in a few of the photos.

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