Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  Feb. 28, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: Yes, as everyone figured out, this is Stephen Crane (d. 1985), above, in a photo stamped 1942]

Here’s this week’s mystery guest!

 

  March 1, 2011, Mystery photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update 2: Stephen Crane with Faye Emerson doing the rumba at the Mocambo, 1944.]

[Update: Please congratulate Rick, Pamela Porter, Carmen, Gregory Moore and Steven Bibb for identifying our mystery fellow, and to Steven Bibb  [[Update: and Gerald McCann]] for identifying the lady who had the unfortunate encounter with The Times' art department. ]

Here’s our mystery guest with a mystery companion who had an unfortunate encounter with The Times’ art department. We don’t do this anymore, folks.

  March 2, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: Stephen Crane reports a burglary to Deputy Jesse Levy, 1952.]

Here’s our mystery guest with a mystery companion – in a Sam Brown belt!

  March 3, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: April 14, 1958: Stephen Crane and Sybil Brand carry boxes of candy on a visit to Juvenile Hall, where Cheryl Crane was in custody. The candy was given to about 19 girls in Cheryl's unit, The Times said. ]

[Update: Please congratulate Mary Mallory and Julie Merholz for identifying our mystery fellow and Fibber McGee/Howard Decker for identifying this mystery woman!]

Here’s our mystery guest with another mystery companion.

  March 4, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Photograph by Don Cormier/Los Angeles Times  

[Update: Lana Turner and Stephen Crane escort Cheryl Crane from the Boyle Heights police station after she ran away, April 3, 1957.]

And for Friday, here’s our guest with two (totally not) mystery companions.

  March 5, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: Eddie Dibella and Stephen Crane in a publicity photo for the opening of Crane's new restaurant Camelot atop the Westwood Center Building in 1968.]

Here’s one more photo with yet another mystery companion!

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56 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  1. Cold in PHX's avatar Cold in PHX says:

    Could this be a very young Lloyd Nolan?

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

    He’s got Dane Clark eyes. And hair. When he had hair.

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

    PS: Usually those of us who are hair obsessed do so out of envy. No names mentioned, of course.

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  4. LC's avatar LC says:

    Otto Kruger

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  5. Steven Moshlak's avatar Steven Moshlak says:

    Harold Gould?

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  6. BarryOB's avatar BarryOB says:

    Don’t know but what a great face!

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  7. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Kurt somebody. . . do you get anything for half names?

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  8. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    This one is driving me nuts! Philip Dorn?

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  9. rick's avatar rick says:

    Stephen Crane

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  10. Pamela Porter's avatar Pamela Porter says:

    Stephen (Stephan?) Crane – one of Lana Turner’s husbands and father of her daughter, Cheryl?

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  11. Carmen's avatar Carmen says:

    Steven Crane

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  12. fibber mcgee's avatar fibber mcgee says:

    Well, the airbrushed paint on the photo print of your mystery dude washes off easily and the red grease pencil marks come off with a little rubbing with a cloth. So what’s underneath is not destroyed. By the way, whatever happened to EAD? I miss the blood and gore.

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  13. Stephen Crane, Lana Turner’s 2nd and 3rd husband (since their 1st go-round was annulled).

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  14. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Henry Daniell.

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  15. Steve Stoliar's avatar Steve Stoliar says:

    Andy Russell?

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  16. fibber mcgee's avatar fibber mcgee says:

    Uuuuhm. I meant AED … which prove my point that she’s been missing in action for a long time. Molly sez it just proves I’m an old fud, as in fuddy duddy. Holy moly.

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  17. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Stephan Bekassy.

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  18. Steven Bibb's avatar Steven Bibb says:

    It’s Stephen Crane, as an actor, before he married Lana Turner and fathered Cheryl. The lady with her nose cut off seems to be Faye Emerson.

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  19. Sharon2's avatar Sharon2 says:

    Could it be Farley Granger?

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  20. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:

    The lady is Faye Emerson.

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  21. hockeykevin's avatar hockeykevin says:

    Not sure, but I’m digging the ascot. I’ve got to get me one of these!!

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  22. lrh's avatar lrh says:

    this is a test….

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  23. fibber mcgee's avatar fibber mcgee says:

    The Sam Brown belt, as I understand it, was first used to carry a heavy sword and not have a conventional belt sag. I think law enforcement departments kept the belts long after swords went out of fashion because they help the wearers look official.

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  24. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    Stephen Crane.

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  25. fibber mcgee's avatar fibber mcgee says:

    The woman in Thursday’s photo looks like Sybil Brand, who had the pink El Lay ladies’ slammer named after her.

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  26. hockeykevin's avatar hockeykevin says:

    Is this John Payne?

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  27. Julie Merholz's avatar Julie Merholz says:

    Steve Crane

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  28. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Lady Bird Johnson’s older twin sister?

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

    This is a wild guess, probably far off the mark. Is he director, Jean Yarbrough?

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  30. Steven Moshlak's avatar Steven Moshlak says:

    Sam Browne was a British (I think) cavalry officer who lost an arm in battle. He invented the rigging so he could carry a side-arm and cavalry sabre into battle.
    End of history lesson. the question that is on everybody’s mind is which does Larry Harnisch enjoy more:
    Digging out and posting these photos or tormenting us, his fans, throughout the week?
    Only The Shadow and Lamont Cranston, knows.

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  31. Steven Moshlak's avatar Steven Moshlak says:

    Beulah Bondi, in picture #4?

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  32. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Lana in #2 and the grandmother who got custody of Cheryl for awhile in #4.

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  33. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    Lana and Cheryl with STephen.

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  34. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    Is that Sybil Brand with Stephen on Thursday?

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  35. fibber mcgee's avatar fibber mcgee says:

    Molly sez you hornswoggled a lot of us with your latest mystery guest, until today of course. Good work! She says the Fib needs to work his cranium a lot harder.

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  36. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Hollow victory–Stephen Crane.

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  37. To be frank, I don’t really know him. Good luck to the others trying to guess who he is. My knowledge of old actors is very very limited to Cary Grant period. Don’t know anybody else.

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  38. periwinkle's avatar periwinkle says:

    Finally, but not without the biggest hint to date. Steve Crane with Lana Turner and their daughter, Cheryl Crane.

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  39. zabadu's avatar zabadu says:

    Ah! Steven Crane!

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  40. MIKE HAWKS's avatar MIKE HAWKS says:

    Here is Lana Turner with daughter Cheryl Crane and ex-husband Stephen Crane.

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

    Stephen Crane

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  42. benito's avatar benito says:

    Joseph Stephen Crane. He founded The Luau in Beverly Hills, where I drank many a mai tai. Bio at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186428/ PS Thanks for the clincher.

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  43. I suspect from the latest picture that it is restauranteur/sometime actor Stephen Crane, leaving a police station with former wife Lana Turner and their daughter Cheryl Crane, some time after the Johnny Stampanato stabbing.

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  44. Rance Ryan's avatar Rance Ryan says:

    steve crane cheryl crane lana turner

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  45. herb nichols's avatar herb nichols says:

    john stompanato

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  46. Cold in PHX's avatar Cold in PHX says:

    Is it Stephen Crane, the father of Cheryl Crane, who’s behind her mother, Lana Turner?

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  47. Cynthia K.'s avatar Cynthia K. says:

    Stephen Crane, Lana Turner and Cheryl Crane.

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  48. LC's avatar LC says:

    Ok. Stephen Crane, Cheryl Crane and Lana Turner. (But you have to admit he does look a bit like Otto Kruger in that first photo).

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  49. Diane Ely's avatar Diane Ely says:

    Stephen Crane?

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  50. Steven Moshlak's avatar Steven Moshlak says:

    Martin Melcher????

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  51. CandyC's avatar CandyC says:

    Stephen Crane – last picture is Lana Turner and Cheryl Crane at murder trial of Johnny Stompanato

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  52. Stacia's avatar Stacia says:

    Hey, is that Stephen Crane?
    Whether it is or not, the IMDb has Crane married to Lana at the same time as Carol Ann Kurtz, and then re-married to Lana just weeks before their daughter was born. I think I need to find a bio of Lana, stat!

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  53. Anne Papineau's avatar Anne Papineau says:

    Mr. Stephen Crane, et al

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  54. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Whoever it is with Crane, looks like they are in Romanoff’s

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

    Should have been obvious. Especially in the shot with Cybil Brand. Doh!… Wondering if Ms. Brand is aware she is visiting a jail that will soon be named after her?

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