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[Update: Dorothy Ford, one of Earl Carroll's most beautiful girls, swims and rides horseback for relaxation between nightly appearances at the Hollywood Carroll theater, in a photo published Oct. 11, 1941.] Here’s our mystery woman for the week! |
[Update: A lacy mantilla adds to the brunette allure of Dorothy Ford, statuesque dancer at Earl Carroll's Hollywood stage attraction, in a photo published Nov. 15, 1941. ] For Tuesday, we have a heavily airbrushed photo of our mystery gal.
[Starlet Dorothy Ford, Miss Pacific States of 1949, with one of the products of the Pacific States Butter, Egg, Cheese and Poultry Association, which is opening annual convention and exposition here today, in a photo published March 12, 1949 ] And for Wednesday, our mystery gal shows off her title as Mystery Miss!
[Dorothy Ford, who is believed to be the tallest girl in films, is shown beside Ben Blue, comedian, in Warner Bros. "One Sunday Afternoon." She finds her height no drawback to acting, in a photo published Feb. 15, 1949. ] For Thursday, our mystery lady has a mystery companion! [Update: Please congratulate Claire Lockhart, Mary Mallory and Don Danard (via email) for identifying our mystery lady and her mystery companion! Please congratulate Dewey Webb, Gerald McCann, Steve Stoliar, Gary Martin, Mike Hawks, Rick Scott, Randy Skretvedt, Herb Nichols and Lee Ann Bailey for identifying her jaunty mystery companion!]
[Update: Mary Mallory also identified this mystery companion! [Actress Dorothy Ford, left, told court her husband, Thomas B. Chambers, "was always playing golf or tennis, watching television or sleeping." Right, Maria Hart, corroborating witness, in a photo published April 16, 1954. ] For Friday, our mystery lady has another mystery companion. Hovering in the background, a mystery hand nearly obscured by The Times’ art department. |
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She reminds me of Ginny Simms. That 40’s look was good but those eyelashes are about to fall off!
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Carmen Miranda
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aurora miranda
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Lynn Bari
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Rochelle Hudson?
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Jo Stafford.
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Ann Baxter
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Carmen Miranda
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ella raines?
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Ann Corio?
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Margie Hart?
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Petra Peters
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Connie Francis?
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Margo, AKA Clo-Clo in “The Leopard Man” (1943).
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Simone Simon?
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Beryl Wallace, Earl Carroll’s girlfriend?
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did they give her a chest or take it away?
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Yvonne De Carlo
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My guess is that she is going to end up being a stripper.
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based on cheese photo, Barbara Edam
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Ben Blue
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Mystery man is Ben Blue
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That dapper little gent is Charlie Chaplin
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Ben Blue and his wife, Axie Dunlap?
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Could this be Axie Dunlap?
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Dorothy Ford!
And with Ben Blue in ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
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Is the companion Eddie Bracken?
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Thursday’s mystery guest is Ben Blue. The lady remains a mystery.
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Ben Blue from I believe, MY WILD IRISH ROSE. The tall girl may be Susanne Rosser.
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Joan Leslie?
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Still can’t place the girl, but the mystery gentleman is Ben Blue.
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Well, the companion is Ben Blue…I wonder if this is from one of Ben’s movies set in the 1890s, maybe “One Sunday Afternoon” or “My Wild Irish Rose”?
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Corrine Calvet
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They are either related or go to same dentist
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The Mystery Hand, though painted to look like a woman’s, was once grafted onto Peter Lorre in ‘Mad Love’. Shortly after the above still was taken, it fell on hard times. It’s last appearance was in a Nineteen-Fifties Clorox commercial. Then, as parts became harder to find, it joined a Twelve-Step Program in Santa Monica. Since hands can only crawl and not step, it dropped down a storm drain and was last seen riding a bit of sewage down the concrete river. Though there have been reports that the hand made it to Howland Island and had attached itself to some wreckage from Rosalind Russell’s missing Lockheed.
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the male companion is ben blue
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Finally! It’s Dorothy Ford. Yesterday’s photo is from ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON with Ben Blue. Is Helen O’Hara with her today?
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Is the mystery gentleman Ben Blue?
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Axie is mentioned in a book titled Once Upon a Time in Paradise written by Charles Foster, who mentions she was a dancer in Blue’s show and married him, worked with him until she had kids, and was still married to Ben when he died in the 1970s. That’s about the most info on Axie I can find anywhere.
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Rosalind Russell’s missing Lockheed — “Flight for Freedom” — was stored for years in an old barn in East Hollywood that used to be part of the Mabel Normand Feature Players Company. It is now a hot dog shack on Ventura Boulevard where all old prop airplanes and stars go to live out their final years. The pith helmet worn by Clark Gable when he co-starred with Rosalind Russell in “They Met In Bombay” is there, too.
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I got the mystery lady, Ben Blue, and Maria!
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photo of Dorothy Ford [6’2″] and Mickey Rooney [5’3″] at http://img.listal.com/image/1304015/600full.jpg
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