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Los Angeles Times file photo For Tuesday, our mystery guest has a mystery camera!
Update: May 26, 1957: “Film director Jean Negulesco and Mrs. Negulesco (former Conover model) have outstanding collection of Bernard Buffet revealed at left. Canvas by Noel Emile Laurent is exception.” For Wednesday, our mystery guest has a mystery companion. Please congratulate Alexa Foreman and Mary Mallory for identifying him. In fact, Alexa says she interviewed him! Update: Jean Negulesco with Ida Lupino, right, and her sister Rita Lupino in a photo stamped Dec. 19, 1946. For Thursday, our mystery guest has two (not so much) mysterious companions. Please congratulate James Curtis for identifying yesterday’s mystery couple and Mary Mallory for identifying his mystery companion.
Los Angeles Times file photo
Update: May 7, 1976: "Jean and Dusty Negulesco stand in front of his latest new lithograph “Femme,” which is the first offering of the newly formed graphics publishing firm here." Here’s our mystery guest — are those leather pants?– with a mystery companion and some of his artwork. Please congratulate Pamela Porter, Periwinkle, Rick, Mike Hawks, Mary Mallory and Mark Heimback-Nielsen for identifying our fellow and one of his mysterious companions! And, finally, Sharon and Space Hanlon identified our mystery guests. |
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James Basevi is my wild guess
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Lee Sholem
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Henry Mancini
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Merian C. Cooper, perhaps?
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I know it’s not but I need to get something out there, Henry Koster/
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Lothrop Worth
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I am a goofus! Of course I know who it is. It’s Jean Negulesco, and those are probably drawings he did. We have his collection here at the library, and drawings of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are hanging in the Special Collection Reading Room right now!
Mary
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Miklos Rozsa
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Hey, that’s from the same photo shoot as Monday’s picture! You cheeky monkey!
OK, my wild guess is Sol Polito.
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A shot in the dark… S. Sylvan Simon
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Merien Cooper, the King Kong fellow?
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Is this his wife Dusty?
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Jean Negulesco and, I imagine, his wife Dusty Anderson.
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S. Sylvan Simon starred in a great short at Cinecon called “Hollywood Screen Test” (Universal, 1937). It showed the entire process of creating, shooting, processing, and recording a screen test, and showed many shots of the Universal lot and shots of people like Jack Pierce, the makeup man on “Frankenstein.”
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Wednesday’s photo featuring Doris Day is the giveaway: can this be Doris’s husband/manager/producer Martin Melcher? His story would make an enjoyable (if lurid) book or movie.
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I’m not convinced that’s Doris Day, but if it is, I guess that’s Marty Melcher? The hairline looks all wrong. But I stink at these things; it took me all week to recognize Lance Fuller a few months ago.
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Jean Negulesco
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The mystery companion on the right of the photo is Ida Lupino
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Ida Lupino is on the right in the photo.
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Director Jean Negulesco.
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Looks like it might be director Jean Negulesco with Ida Lupino.
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Well, he’s got Vivian Vance on his left arm?????????
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director Jean Negulesco and I think one of the mystery companions is Ida Lupino
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Jean Negulesco. The leggy lady with the art must be a blonde incarnation of his leggy wife Dusty Anderson. Ida Lupino is hugging his arm tightly in Thursday’s picture but the other lady sort of looks like Jean Arthur but not really enough. Celeste Holm?
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The only one I recognized was Ida Lupino (I think!)
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Jean Negulesco
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Hey Larry,
No idea who this week’s mystery star is. May I throw in my 2 cents, however? (and this is not meant in any way to be critical–merely my opinion). I really enjoyed the Mystery Photo format more when the answer was revealed on Friday, rather than waiting all the way til Monday. It just sort of loses its momentum to have to wait that long for the answer. Not to mention that most weeks I don’t know who the hell it is and it drives me nuts!
Thanks, as always…keep up the great work!
Best wishes always,
Gregory Moore
NYC
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Ben Lyon
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