Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  Feb. 11, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

  Feb. 11, 2011, Mystery photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: This is “What’s Up Doc?” with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, as most people realized. ]

For all those Daily Mirror readers who complain when a mystery photo is too easy, I have cropped out the talent, whom everyone would recognize immediately.

 

  Feb. 11, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Feb. 11, 2011, Mystery Photo  

[Update: This is Peter Bogdanovich.]

Here’s our mystery camera!

  Feb. 11, 2011, Mystery Photo  

… and mystery folks standing around…

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19 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  1. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    woman looks like she might be Polly Platt

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  2. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    Peter Bogdanovich and What’s up Doc? And Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand must be on the floor.

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  3. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    What’s Up Doc (or, maybe, Thief Who Came to Dinner)

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  4. Unknown's avatar zabadu says:

    Well, that’s Peter Bogdonovich…

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  5. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    What’s Up Doc?

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  6. herb nichols's avatar herb nichols says:

    if the girl is polly platt then thats peter bogdanovich looking through the camera

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  7. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:

    A few unhelpful (to me) observations: The camera is a Panavision wide gage one, meaning that it is for a big picture. A real location has been transformed for the sequence. Several AlanLadds are piled up for the camera operator (or director) to peer through the viewfinder. And the talent laying on his backside on a cushion is wearing tuxedo pants. The era seems to be the seventies to eighties.
    I would have guessed some James Bond film, but none are shot in the City of Angels.
    That’s all folks.

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  8. Steven Moshlak's avatar Steven Moshlak says:

    “The Fugitive” (1993), with Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones and that ageless Super-Fox, Julianne Moore?

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  9. MIKE HAWKS's avatar MIKE HAWKS says:

    That is Peter Bogdanovich behind the camera filming Ryan O’Neal on the set of WHAT’S UP DOC.

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  10. Pamela Porter's avatar Pamela Porter says:

    Polly Platt & Peter Bogdanovich – on the set of “What’s Up, Doc?”? If so, that’s probably Ryan O’Neal’s tuxedo’d leg.

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  11. benito's avatar benito says:

    The blonde has a Julie Christie nose. Is that Warren Beatty on his back, and is this Shampoo?

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  12. Greg Clancey's avatar Greg Clancey says:

    The guy looking throw the lens looks too uncomfortable to be the DP or Operator. Probably the director. William Friedkin?

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  13. Greg Clancey's avatar Greg Clancey says:

    that should be “through”. (I hate when that happens)

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

    Could the director be a young Peter Bogdanovich? If so, the production might be the slapstick farce “What’s Up, Doc?” (1972) with Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, whose tuxedo jacket she ripped and had to mend.

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  15. Unknown's avatar zabadu says:

    Is the movie “What’s Up Doc?”

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  16. periwinkle's avatar periwinkle says:

    Peter Bogdanovich directing “Targets”?

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  17. Julie Merholz's avatar Julie Merholz says:

    William Friedkin directing “Boys in the Band” in 1970.

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  18. Arye Michael Bender's avatar Arye Michael Bender says:

    Taking a stab, ‘To Live & Die in L.A.”. Okay, now I’ll cut it out.

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  19. LC's avatar LC says:

    I have to go along with everyone else on this one – What’s Up Doc?

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