Movieland Mystery Photo

Posted on June 28, 2010 by lmharnisch

    
June 21, 2010, Mystery photo
Los Angeles Times file photo 

Update: This is Lawrence Gray in an undated photo.

This week’s mystery guest was chosen by Daily Mirror reader Mike Hawks.

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 is Evelyn Nesbit!

There’s a new photo on the jump!


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Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: This is Lawrence Gray in a photo stamped Feb. 14, 1925. Mary Mallory says Gray’s mystery companion Mildred Harris and the film is “Dressmaker From Paris,” 1925

For Tuesday, our mystery guest has a mystery companion and what appears to be a hotel room key. Please congratulate Mary Mallory and Jenny M. for identifying him.

June 23, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

This Lawrence Gray with his future wife, Maria Luisa Figueroa, at the Ambassador, in a photo stamped Aug. 5, 1935.

Here’s our mystery guest and a mystery companion (how do you like the spectacular collar on her dress?) And look! Just to his right, he’s got a straw hat. Very jaunty! Please congratulate Eve Golden for identifying him. 

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Los Angeles Times file photo

This is Gray and Figueroa, who were married in Mexico, in a photo at the monastery at Tepoztlan. His address was 2025 N. Highland. The photo was published Aug. 8, 1935.

For Thursday, our mystery guest has a mystery companion. Please congratulate Sue for identifying him.

June 26, 2010, Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo

Update: Lawrence Gray in an undated photo. Thanks to Mike Hawks for being this week’s mystery photo host!

Here’s Friday’s picture of our mystery guest!

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32 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo

  1. Jenny M says:
    June 21, 2010 at 9:23 am

    Buster Crabbe

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  2. MichaelRyerson says:
    June 21, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Bruce Cabot. Before the big monkey.

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  3. fibber mcgee says:
    June 21, 2010 at 9:54 am

    My guess is Billy Haines.

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  4. Mary Mallory says:
    June 21, 2010 at 10:09 am

    It can’t be Neil Hamilton, can it?

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  5. Julie Merholz says:
    June 21, 2010 at 10:42 am

    Richard Arlen

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  6. margie says:
    June 21, 2010 at 11:05 am

    Chester Morris

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  7. Arye (Leslie) Michael Bender says:
    June 21, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Mr. Heston must be holding a place for Rosalind Cash. I know I would.

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  8. Eve says:
    June 21, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    He looks kinda David Manners-y and kinda Grant Withers-y, but I don’t think he is either.

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  9. Rob says:
    June 21, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    Randolph Scott ??

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  10. Cynthia K. says:
    June 21, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Ralph Bellamy.

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  12. Steve Tee says:
    June 21, 2010 at 9:42 pm

    David Wayne, by any chance?

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  13. David S. says:
    June 21, 2010 at 11:25 pm

    Scott Brady.

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  14. Anne Papineau says:
    June 22, 2010 at 9:09 am

    He’s a nicely dressed chap.

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  15. Lynne Levine says:
    June 22, 2010 at 9:19 am

    Wallace Reid?

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  16. Suzy Q says:
    June 22, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    Ralph Graves

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  17. Mark Heimback-Nielsen says:
    June 22, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Is it Hugh O’Connell?

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  18. Periwinkle says:
    June 22, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    Harry Benham? If not, an amazing resemblance.

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  19. Stacia says:
    June 22, 2010 at 9:02 pm

    Who is Mary Mallory and why is she so awesome? I hope she makes a living using that amazing knowledge of hers. That’s not sarcasm, by the way, it would genuinely make me happy to know someone earns a living by identifying photos of old movie stars.

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  20. pete nowell says:
    June 22, 2010 at 11:45 pm

    ralph graves

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  21. Rick Scott says:
    June 23, 2010 at 2:31 am

    Let’s go for the truly obscure…Ralph Forbes with Constance Talmadge as Tuesday’s companion.

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  22. Anna says:
    June 23, 2010 at 7:37 am

    Randolph Scott

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  23. rick says:
    June 23, 2010 at 9:19 am

    don’t know who he is but is the woman Margaret Hamilton aka the Wicked Witch of the West?

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  24. Rinky Dink says:
    June 23, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Is the lady in the amazing collar Fanny Brice?

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  26. Julie Merholz says:
    June 24, 2010 at 10:02 am

    I don’t see the Thursday photo..

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  27. fibber magee says:
    June 24, 2010 at 10:18 am

    One of the hazards of living out in the countryside is that sometimes items put on the Internet don’t travel this far out. My calendar says it is Thursday and I can only find three Movieland Mystery Photos. I’ll just bet the one that has disappeared into the ozone is the one which would allow me to nail this mystery guy.

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  28. Sharon says:
    June 24, 2010 at 6:53 pm

    Gary Cooper?

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  29. Joan Y. Compagno says:
    June 24, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    William Haines

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  30. Sharon says:
    June 25, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    Lon Chaney Sr., or even Jr.?

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  31. Gerald McCann says:
    June 25, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    Charles Bickford?

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  32. virginia jauregui says:
    June 28, 2010 at 7:52 am

    Is it Paul Kelly?

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