| Los Angeles Times file photo As nearly everyone guessed, this is Bob “Bazooka” Burns. Above, Burns and Martha O'Driscoll, examine the bazooka baseball pitcher, Dec. 29, 1946.
Feb. 3, 1956: Bob Burns dies at the age of 65. |
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Los Angeles Times file photo Dec. 13, 1936, Burns at the annual Red vs. Blue golf match at Lakeside. Don’t you love these old publicity shots? Please congratulate Herb Nichols, Kevin Kusinitz and Julie Merholz for identifying our mystery guest. June 20, 1937: Martha Raye and Bob Burns in “Mountain Music.” Here’s our mystery guest with a rather morose mystery companion. Please congratulate Richard Wegescheide for identifying him.
Please congratulate Dewey Webb, Allison Francis, Periwinkle, Rick, Sandy, Pamela Porter and Margie for identifying him! |
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Rudy Vallee
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Rudy Vallee??
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Bob “Bazooka” Burns
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Bob Burns
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The man is Bob Burns and the lady just might be his wife.
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Is it Ruth Rogers and Fred Allen?
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It’s Bob Burns, with his bazooka in hand.
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Wallace Ford?
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Well, since it’s not Rudy Vallee (are you SURE about that?), maybe it’s Dudley Murphy.
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Okay then, Bob Burns of ‘Bazooka’ fame.
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Mickey Daniels
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Rudy Vallee
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Preston Sturges?
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Bob “Bazooka” Burns. But can’t place the lady.
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Bob “Bazooka” Burns, and is that his first wife Elizabeth Fisher?
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Presuming that the mystery star is the man and not the lady, it’s Bob “Bazooka” Burns, the sage of Van Buren, Arkansas. He’s holding his self-invented musical instrument, the bazooka–for which the WWII-era weapon was named.
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If it’s the man you’re after, it’s “The Arkansas Traveler” Bob Burns. The girl looks like Martha O’Driscoll.
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Rudy Vallee
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Is the young lady Martha O’Driscoll?
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Is this the Paramount Ranch as well?
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Shemp Howard
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bob bazooka burns
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Frank Fay
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Bob Burns.
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Shemp Howard?
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William Holden
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George Stevens
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Bob Burns
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Is the mystery lady marilyn Maxwell?
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Venturing another guess. Frank McHugh, longtime member of the Warner Bros. stock company. Could be a thug, a priest, or comic relief. Sometimes all three at once.
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Bob Burn with his bazooka
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Dan Dailey?
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Guinn “Big Boy” Williams?
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Anne Baxter (mystery companion)
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Martha Raye
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Bob Burns!!!
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Is this Judy Canova, his second wife?
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Still don’t know the gentlemen. But is the latest young lady, Martha Raye?
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Bob Burns?
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It’s Martha Raye and MOUNTAIN MUSIC.
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Bob Burns? With Martha Raye?
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Yesterday’s photo at the hospital shows nurse Edith Clark and his daughter Barbara Ann. We have photos of him posing with the bazooka and a mariachi band and animals like a bull, giant pig, and other animals, as well as from World War I. There’s also a photo of him posing with the LA Chief of Police as he’s named an honorary officer.
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Bob Bazooka Burns
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Bob Burns
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George Bancroft
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Bob Burns
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Thursday’s photo:
Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie???
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Thursday: bob burns and paulette goddard
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