Movie Star Mystery Photo

Posted on April 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

    April 26, 2010, Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo 

Our mystery guest is Vera Lewis, above, in a photo dated Aug. 27, 1916.

Feb. 12, 1956, Vera Lewis

Feb. 12, 1956: Lewis dies at the age of 82.

June 14, 1925, Vera Lewis

June 14 1925: Elinor Glyn says Vera Lewis is the reincarnation of Empress Sophia Maria!

 
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: Bob “Bazooka” Burns!

There’s a new photo on the jump!


 

 
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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!

April 28, 2010, Mystery Photo

Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Vera Lewis in a 1927 photo.
Here’s another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Carmen and Bronski for identifying her!
 
April 29, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Vera Lewis in “Nancy Drew — Detective,” 1938. 
Here’s another picture of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Don Danard for identifying her!

April 30, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Vera Lewis, left, with Mia Marvin and Jackie Searl in a photo stamped Aug. 23, 1934.

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25 Responses to Movie Star Mystery Photo

  1. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:
    April 26, 2010 at 9:28 am

    A young Helen Broderick?

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  2. MichaelRyerson's avatar MichaelRyerson says:
    April 26, 2010 at 9:46 am

    a youthful Hope Emerson.

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  3. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:
    April 26, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Flora Finch?

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  4. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    April 26, 2010 at 10:05 am

    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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  5. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:
    April 26, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Charlotte Greenwood.

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  6. Sandy's avatar Sandy says:
    April 26, 2010 at 10:40 am

    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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  7. Anne Papineau's avatar Anne Papineau says:
    April 26, 2010 at 10:55 am

    Madame Glyn?

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  8. Anne Papineau's avatar Anne Papineau says:
    April 26, 2010 at 11:50 am

    Minerva Urecal??

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  9. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:
    April 26, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Fanny Brice and Nicki Arnstein?

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  10. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:
    April 26, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    My guess is Mary Garden.

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  11. Sharon's avatar Sharon says:
    April 26, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    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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  13. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:
    April 26, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    Judith anderson.

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  14. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:
    April 27, 2010 at 9:20 am

    Elinor Glyn.

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  15. jane Ellen WAyne's avatar jane Ellen WAyne says:
    April 27, 2010 at 9:21 am

    Agnes Moorhead

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  16. Allison Francis's avatar Allison Francis says:
    April 27, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Elinor Glyn?

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  17. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:
    April 27, 2010 at 10:57 am

    Helen Westley

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  18. Eve's avatar Eve says:
    April 28, 2010 at 6:50 am

    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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  19. Pat in Michigan's avatar Pat in Michigan says:
    April 28, 2010 at 9:42 am

    Margaret Mann

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  20. CatM's avatar CatM says:
    April 28, 2010 at 9:42 am

    Eleanor Lawson?

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  21. Julie Merholz's avatar Julie Merholz says:
    April 29, 2010 at 9:17 am

    Isabel Randolph

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  22. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:
    April 29, 2010 at 9:24 am

    Emily Fitzroy.

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  23. Diane Warren's avatar Diane Warren says:
    April 29, 2010 at 10:06 am

    Especially in the third photo, she looks like Tom Baker in drag!

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  24. Janet Hoffmann's avatar Janet Hoffmann says:
    April 29, 2010 at 11:28 am

    Wild guess, Kathryn Sheldon

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  25. Joan Y. Compagno's avatar Joan Y. Compagno says:
    April 29, 2010 at 7:32 pm

    Helen Menken

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