Movieland Mystery Photo

  Oct. 18, 2010, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

Here’s this week’s mystery guest!

Last week’s mystery was the apartment of William Desmond Taylor. The weekend mystery guest was Charles Vidor.

There's a new picture on the jump!

 

  Oct. 19, 2010, Mystery Photo

 

Please congratulate Carmen, Periwinkle, Dewey Webb, Jenny M, Mike Hawks, Bruce Long, LC ("Oh, too easy"), Barbara Klein, Karen, CandyC, Ronald Emmis and Vanessa Carey for identifying our mystery lady.

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  Los Angeles Times file photo  

For Wednesday, our mystery woman has an (entirely not) mystery companion. I can’t figure out if this picture is a vertical or a horizontal. Either way, the pose looks uncomfortable. Please congratulate Pamela Porter, Bud, Sandy and RJ for identifying her!

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  Photograph by Marianna Diamos / Los Angeles Times  

Here’s our mystery woman with a stylishly dressed mystery companion. Please congratulate Pat in Michigan, Agatha Grafton and Lynne Levine for identifying her!

  Oct. 22, 2010, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

And here’s our mystery guest with a (totally not) mysterious companion.

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46 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo

  1. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    Tish Sterling

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  2. periwinkle's avatar periwinkle says:

    Tisha Sterling.

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  3. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Tisha Sterling (perhaps only actress in Hollywood who made career playing her mother in flashback scenes)

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  4. Jenny M's avatar Jenny M says:

    Tisha Sterling?

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  5. Anne Papineau's avatar Anne Papineau says:

    Jill Ireland

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  6. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    The lady is Tisha Sterling.

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  7. Patricia van Hartesveldt's avatar Patricia van Hartesveldt says:

    Beverly d’Angelo?

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  8. Bruce Long's avatar Bruce Long says:

    Looks to me like Tisha Sterling.

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  9. Rogét-L.A.'s avatar Rogét-L.A. says:

    Sharon Tate?

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  10. LC's avatar LC says:

    Oh too easy, it’s Tisha Sterling.

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  11. MichaelRyerson's avatar MichaelRyerson says:

    Anjanette Comer

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  12. Barbara Klein's avatar Barbara Klein says:

    Tisha Sterling

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  13. Karen's avatar Karen says:

    Tisha Sterling.

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  14. Diane Ely's avatar Diane Ely says:

    Sally Struthers?

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  15. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:

    Pamela Tiffin?

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  16. CandyC's avatar CandyC says:

    Trisha Sterling

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  17. Joan's avatar Joan says:

    Shelley Fabares?

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  18. Ronald Emmis's avatar Ronald Emmis says:

    I heard from my friend Lois that it is Tisha Sterling, the daughter of Robert Sterling and Ann Sothern.

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  19. Vanessa Carey's avatar Vanessa Carey says:

    Tisha Sterling is the mystery guest.

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  20. Stacia's avatar Stacia says:

    If the sidebar is any indication, it looks like everyone got this one, but I don’t have a clue. Wild guess: Susan Strasberg?

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  21. Pamela Porter's avatar Pamela Porter says:

    Tisha Sterling

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  22. Bud's avatar Bud says:

    Tisha Sterling

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  23. Sandy's avatar Sandy says:

    Tisha Sterling

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  24. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:

    Julianne Moore?

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  25. RJ's avatar RJ says:

    Tisa Sterling, Ann Southern’s daughter?

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  26. Pat in Michigan's avatar Pat in Michigan says:

    Tisha Sterling

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  27. Agatha Grafton's avatar Agatha Grafton says:

    Tisha Sterling?

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  28. herb nichols's avatar herb nichols says:

    antoinette bower

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  29. Rogét-L.A.'s avatar Rogét-L.A. says:

    Still don’t know who the mystery lady is, but her male companion in the third photo looks like a very young and scruffy Michael Douglas.

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  30. Lynne Levine's avatar Lynne Levine says:

    Trisha Sterling, look-alike daughter of Anne Southern.

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  31. Rogét-L.A.'s avatar Rogét-L.A. says:

    Could the mystery lady be Michael Douglas’ first wife, Diandra (Luker) Douglas?

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  32. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Are Pamela Porter, Bud and Sandy members of some sort of dolphin trivia cabal ? They all have same names as characters of the dad and two sons on Flipper (Porter, Bud & Sandy) . . .and all identify Mystery Gal same day. Fishy! Well, something to think about.
    Next: Was mother of Ben and Casey Affleck a Vince Edwards fan?

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  33. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Kristin Nelson?

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  34. Pamela Porter's avatar Pamela Porter says:

    Haha, Dewey! No conspiracy here (are you Oliver Stone?)
    PS – are you the same Dewey Webb who used to write this stuff:
    http://www.gloriapall.com/deweybook87.htm
    If so, I LOVED those! Please bring them back (or the dolphin gets it!)
    Pamela

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  35. Mark Heimback-Nielsen's avatar Mark Heimback-Nielsen says:

    Is it Tisha Sterling with her mother Ann Southern in Friday’s photo?

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  36. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Tisha Sterling with her mother Ann Sothern.

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  37. Julie Merholz's avatar Julie Merholz says:

    Tisha Sterling

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  38. Carol Gwenn's avatar Carol Gwenn says:

    Better late than not at all, I guess…Tisha Sterling & her mother, Ann Sothern – my God, what a retouching job THAT shot is!

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  39. Space Hanlon's avatar Space Hanlon says:

    Now I get it! It must be Tisha Sterling with her mom.

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  40. Sue's avatar Sue says:

    Tisha Sterling

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  41. Steve Solomon's avatar Steve Solomon says:

    Who’s the scruffy guy in the third pic?

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  42. Claire Lockhart's avatar Claire Lockhart says:

    Tisha Sterling with her mother Ann Sothern.

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  43. Stacia's avatar Stacia says:

    Again, if I had just watched “The Killer Inside Me” sooner, I might have gotten this. Considering how many times the Mystery Guest has been someone I JUST saw in a film, though, it’s doubtful I would have realized it even then.

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  44. Jimmy T's avatar Jimmy T says:

    The man in both of these pictures is Nick Buttle. Neither is Michael Douglas. Nick was Tisha Sterling’s boyfriend in the 70’s and lived in Topanga Canyon, California, off Old Topanga Road. I used to party out at his house every weekend for several years with Nick, Tisha, many friends, and my ex-wife Marilyn Vail, who lived in Nick’s guest house. We had great times there in those years. Nick Buttle disappeared in the ocean in the 90’s, I think, off Zuma Beach, California, while kayaking far off-shore. I personally believe he was the victim of a shark attack. As far as I know, his remains were never found nor any remains of the kayak.

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  45. lmharnisch's avatar lmharnisch says:

    The third image is indeed Michael Douglas, or M.K. Douglas, as he was calling himself at that time. It’s a publicity photo for “The Experiment.”

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