| Los Angeles Times file photo Our mystery guest is Vera Lewis, above, in a photo dated Aug. 27, 1916.
Feb. 12, 1956: Lewis dies at the age of 82.
June 14 1925: Elinor Glyn says Vera Lewis is the reincarnation of Empress Sophia Maria! |
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Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Vera Lewis in an undated photo. Here’s another photo of our mystery woman – looking very proper with a parasol. Please congratulate Nick Santa Maria, Lee Ann Bailey and Eve Golden for identifying her. I’m always impressed by the knowledge of the Daily Mirror readers. Nice going!
Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Vera Lewis in a 1927 photo. Update: Vera Lewis in “Nancy Drew — Detective,” 1938. Vera Lewis, left, with Mia Marvin and Jackie Searl in a photo stamped Aug. 23, 1934. |
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A young Helen Broderick?
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a youthful Hope Emerson.
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Flora Finch?
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Day-um. Well, she’s not Clara Kimball Young or Mary Garden, though she looks a bit like them; and the photo was taken ca. 1910s . . . Must put my thinking cap on.
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Charlotte Greenwood.
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The expression, and the whole getup, call to mind Margaret Dumont, Groucho’s recurring foil…
“It’s a gala day for you.”
“Well a gal a day’s enough for me.”
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Madame Glyn?
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Minerva Urecal??
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Fanny Brice and Nicki Arnstein?
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My guess is Mary Garden.
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I was sure it was Fanny Brice, but now that I look at the picture more, I am guessing Charlotte Green. If not, maybe it’s Marjorie Main?
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Judith Anderson
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Judith anderson.
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Elinor Glyn.
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Agnes Moorhead
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Elinor Glyn?
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Helen Westley
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I find myself tickled no end that so many people remember the great Madame Glyn! I’m off to re-read “Three Weeks” (” . . . her lips were red, Red, RED!”).
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Margaret Mann
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Eleanor Lawson?
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Isabel Randolph
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Emily Fitzroy.
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Especially in the third photo, she looks like Tom Baker in drag!
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Wild guess, Kathryn Sheldon
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Helen Menken
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