12 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo

1. Arye Michael Bender says:

   June 18, 2011 at 12:50 pm

   Could be Evelyn Nesbitt, after she Thawed out a bit.

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2. eve says:

   June 18, 2011 at 3:06 pm

   Gosh! That is a mystery (I do love Witzel, by the way, wish someone would put out a coffee-table book of his work).

   I am guessing it is ca. 1920. She’s not any of the big stars, but maybe . . . Wanda Hawley? Martha Mansfield? Constance Binney? Dorothy Dwan? She really does look so familiar . . .

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3. normandesmond says:

   June 18, 2011 at 7:06 pm

   i’m far too young to recall a face from this time, but she has a drop of sue carroll about her.

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4. juliemerholz says:

   June 19, 2011 at 2:44 pm

   No new picture of her today?

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   • lmharnisch says:

     June 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm

     @Julie…. this is on EBay. I don’t have any more pictures of her. 🙂

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5. juliemerholz says:

   June 19, 2011 at 7:44 pm

   On your new logo picture is that Francis Farmer on the far left?

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6. Brent Walker says:

   June 21, 2011 at 10:43 am

   I can’t tell you who this is specifically, but as the ebay seller mentions, this is one of the Vanity Fair Girls — aka Vanity Fair Maids — who were used both for promotion, and in the films, of a one-reel comedy series produced by Rolin (Hal Roach) in 1921 starring comedian Eddie Boland. The names of some of the regular girls given in the trades are Ethel Broadhurst, Jean Hope, Del Lorice (aka Delloris Johnson), Lilymae Wilkinson, Nina Trask, Georgia Davy, Jean Clippard, Dagmar Dahlgren, Norma Nichols and Irene Dale. I can rule out Norma Nichols — she was a former Keystone actress (and Charlie Chaplin co-star) and it is definitely not her. Jean Hope ended up marrying Eddie Boland.
   Brent Walker

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   • lmharnisch says:

     June 21, 2011 at 11:01 am

     @Brent: Thanks! Weirdly enough, The Times didn’t write anything about the Vanity Fair Girls. Maybe I should try Vanity Fair Maids….

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7. Brent Walker says:

   June 21, 2011 at 10:44 am

   FYI – Hal Roach did most of his publicity photos at the Witzel studio. This was where, in 1919, Harold Lloyd had his infamous accident involving the “prop” bomb that wasn’t a prop.

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   • lmharnisch says:

     June 22, 2011 at 6:31 am

     @Brent: Yes, if you know to watch for it, you can really see how Lloyd dealt with his injured hand in filming.

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8. Brent Walker says:

   June 21, 2011 at 10:47 am

   It could conceivably be Ethel Broadhurst, who worked her way up to supporting parts with Paul Parrott (Charley Chase’s brother James), and is seen here:
   

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9. CatM says:

   June 25, 2011 at 9:17 am

   Okay, I give up. Who is she?

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