Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  2011_0406_mystery_photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: This is Dorothy Mackaill (d. 1990) in an undated photo! ]

We’re off to a late start on this week’s mystery photo. It turns out that our mystery guest was misidentified as Mabel Todd, but was recognized as XXXXXX by Mike Hawks and Mary Mallory. I found all these photos of her and it seems a shame not to post some of them. Please congratulate Eve Golden for also identifying her!
 
There’s a new photo on the jump!

 

  April 7, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: This is Dorothy Mackaill with Pat O'Malley on location in Arizona for "The Mine With the Iron Door" in a photo stamped July 16, 1924. ]

[Update: Please congratulate Mary Mallory and Mike Hawks for identifying Thursday’s mystery companion – and the film!]

Our mystery gal has a mystery guest. Here’s one background that The Times art department didn’t paint out.

  April 8, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: Dorothy Mackaill with Henry Sedley in "The Broken Violin" in a photo stamped Oct. 26, 1924.

[Please congratulate Karen for identifying our mystery guest!]

For Friday, our mystery gal has another mystery companion!

  April 9, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: NEW FILM TEAM — Dorothy Mackaill, First National star, and Sidney Blackmer, New York stage favorite. Blackmer will remain in films opposite Miss Mackaill, and probably, other stars. He has played in two of Miss Mackaill's pictures, "The Love Racket" and "The Jazz Queen." This photo is stamped June 12, 1930. ]

[Update: Please congratulate Dewey Webb for identifying our mystery couple, Stacia for identifying our mystery woman, and Mary Mallory and Mike Hawks for identifying our mystery companion. And please credit Don Danard for identifying our mystery gal, Sidney Blackmer and Donald Cook.]

  April 4, 2011, Mystery Photo  
  Los Angeles Times file photo  

[Update: Dorothy Mackaill and Donald Cook in "Safe in Hell," in a photo stamped Nov. 29, 1931.]

Here’s our gal with another mystery companion!

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25 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

  1. fibber mcgee's avatar fibber mcgee says:

    Well, just let me say VaVaVoom!

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  2. Jeff's avatar Jeff says:

    Helen Vinson.

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  3. Stacia's avatar Stacia says:

    Well, that first photo on the last post was Mabel Todd, at any rate, so there was SOME Mabel Todd content, just not 100%!
    I have no guess on the current guest, but boy does she have some nice legs.

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  4. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Is that Pat O’Malley with our mystery person today?

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  5. MIKE HAWKS's avatar MIKE HAWKS says:

    Dorothy is with Pat O’Malley on the set of the 1924 film THE MINE WITH THE IRON DOOR.

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  6. Steven Moshlak's avatar Steven Moshlak says:

    Barbara Stanwyck?

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  7. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Alec B. Francis and BRIDGE OF SIGHS.

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  8. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Is that Hobart Bosworth then?

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  9. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Claude Gillingwater.

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  10. Eve's avatar Eve says:

    Day-um, Claude Gillingwater was hot, I had no idea he had such great gams!

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  11. Karen's avatar Karen says:

    Dorothy Mackaill.

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  12. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Is it Warren Cook?

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  13. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Albert Gran.

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  14. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    whoever it is, he looks like late period Lee J. Cobb

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  15. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    James Rennie.

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  16. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    Sidnay Blackmer?

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  17. Gerald McCann's avatar Gerald McCann says:

    Gertrude Lawrence

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  18. Dewey Webb's avatar Dewey Webb says:

    Dorothy MacKaill & Sidney Blackmer

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  19. MIKE HAWKS's avatar MIKE HAWKS says:

    The man with Dorothy is Sidney Blackmer. The film STRICTLY MODERN.

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

    The man in the latest two-shot looks like he could be one of the Roaches. Hal Junior?

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  21. Stacia's avatar Stacia says:

    Hmm, is that Dorothy Mackaill?

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  22. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    Donald Cook with her today.

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  23. Mary mallory's avatar Mary mallory says:

    SAFE IN HELL is the film.

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  24. LC's avatar LC says:

    The last two photos looks like Sidney Blackmer and Donald Cook. The name of the actress is right on the tip of my tongue!

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  25. Stacia's avatar Stacia says:

    I’ve seen her a million times and I STILL have trouble recognizing her. She looks terrific in the picture with Sidney Blackmer, apparently from “Strictly Modern” per Mike.

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