Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Jan. 6, 2014, Mystery Photo

For Monday, we have a mystery woman.

Jan. 7, 2014, Mystery Photo

And for Tuesday, a mystery gent.

Please congratulate Mark Alan Vieira (mystery actress and mystery film series), Don Danard (mystery actress), Megan (mystery movie and mystery actress), Mike Hawks (mystery actress, mystery studio and mystery film series) and Bob Hansen (mystery actress and two of her better known films).

Movieland Mystery Photo Hint Hotline: If you would like a hint, email me. (This is new and in response to comments in the readers survey from those are frustrated by a week of unidentified people).

Jan. 8, 2014, Mystery Photo

And here we have a couple of mystery folks.

Please congratulate Don Danard (mystery movie and cast), Megan (mystery fellow) and Mary Mallory (wrong actress, right movie series).

Jan. 9, 2014, Mystery Photo

And for Thursday, a mystery taxi driver (her cap says “Yellow Cab,” although it’s a bit hard to see in this image). This is one of the few shots of her without our leading man and I’m saving him for tomorrow.

Please congratulate Mary Mallory (mystery movie and cast), Gary Martin (mystery movie and cast), Dennis Gilliam (mystery movie and partial cast), Don Danard (Wednesday’s mystery folks), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and cast), Floyd Thursby (Wednesday’s mystery fellow), Megan (Wednesday’s mystery folks), Julie Merholz (Wednesday’s mystery chap, but wrong movie series),  Patrick (mystery movie and cast),  Michael Ryerson (Wednesday’s mystery folks).

If you can’t stand the suspense, email me and I’ll tell you the title.

Jan. 10, 2014, Mystery Photo

And for Friday, a mysterious (or not) couple.

Please congratulate Patrick (Thursday’s mystery cabdriver), Mary Mallory (mystery cabdriver), Michael Ryerson (mystery movie and cabdriver) who notes “In my mind’s eye I frequently get her stills confused with Wendy Barrie”), Keith Thursby (Wednesday’s mystery folks), Don Danard (mystery cabdriver) who notes “One of my faves,” Julie Merholz (mystery movie and cast), Valle Dave (Monday’s mystery woman and film series), Mike Hawks, who comments: “XXX says ‘Taxi, Mister’ “), LC (mystery movie and cast), Rick (mystery movie and cast), Bob Hansen (Wednesday’s mystery folks), Barbara Klein (mystery movie and cast) and Rick Scott (Wednesday’s mystery woman and Thursday’s mystery cabdriver).

Congrats, everybody!

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57 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

  1. June's avatar June says:

    Audrey Totter

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  2. My first inclination is Audrey Totter.

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  3. It’s Jean Brooks, but the photo’s not from Leopard Man or The Seventh Victim. I know her face because I became fascinated by those Val Lewton films in the 80s, even though I’d seen them on KPIX in San Francisco twenty years earlier. I guess you have to be an adult to “get” Val Lewton. She really makes them work. She and Katherine Emery, among others.

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  4. Don Danard's avatar Don Danard says:

    Jean Brooks aka Jeanne Kelly

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  5. Patricia Ann's avatar Patricia Ann says:

    Looks like Debbie—-the hair do & clothes looks like the 40s–so …….oops I forgot the last name Reynolds

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  6. Benito's avatar Benito says:

    A cute crew member of Star Trek The Next Generation lounges at the holodeck pool

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  7. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Virginia Field?

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  8. ValleDave's avatar ValleDave says:

    Looks like Donna Reed to me ??

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  9. Jenny M's avatar Jenny M says:

    Deborah Kerr

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  10. Kent's avatar Kent says:

    I thought of the Audrey Totter and Evelyn Keyes also, but this soft focus pic still resembles an early photo of Donna Reed with her hair in an uncharacteristically up style.

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  11. Megan's avatar Megan says:

    Jean Brooks in the Leopard Man. Her death from alcoholism was tragic.

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  12. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    Jean Brooks from one of the RKO Falcon movies.

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  13. Megan's avatar Megan says:

    I should say, The Falcon in Hollywood.

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  14. Gary Martin's avatar Gary Martin says:

    Elena Verdugo.

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  15. Xavier's avatar Xavier says:

    perhaps Margo

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  16. Bob Hansen's avatar Bob Hansen says:

    I may not have the exact name right, but is it Jean Brooks who was in The Seventh Victim and Leopard Man?

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  17. Michael Owen's avatar Michael Owen says:

    Audrey Totter

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  18. Don Danard's avatar Don Danard says:

    Well, after some “checking”, I’d say the movie is “The Falcon in Hollywood” and I’d also say that today’s Mystery Man is Useff Ali.

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

    My first impression of Monday’s mystery woman was Olivia de Havilland.

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  20. DeweyWebb's avatar DeweyWebb says:

    The Great Gildersleeve and the Mexican Spitfire Meet the Saint and The Falcon in Palm Springs

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  21. Megan's avatar Megan says:

    Useff Ali

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  22. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Rita Corday and the Falcon series.

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  23. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard today.

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  24. Gary Martin's avatar Gary Martin says:

    OK. You say it is a series…film. So the Young Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard would peg it as Falcon …and with Useff Ali on a cheesy set, it must be Falcon In Hollywood …with, Monday, Jean Brooks and …I hope…by Saturday a lovely shot of my fav…Veda Ann Borg.

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  25. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    THE FALCON IN HOLLYWOOD, with Jean Brooks Monday and Useff Ali Tuesday. I taped this, but haven’t watched it.

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  26. Since this is from a series, I’ll go with “The Falcon in Hollywood”. Monday: Veda Ann Borg. Tuesday: Perhaps Useff Ali. Wednesday’s couple: Barbara Hale and future TV producer Sheldon Leonard.

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  27. Don Danard's avatar Don Danard says:

    Sheldon Leonard shows Barbara Hale that he isn’t such a nice guy! (Well, he was in real life!)

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  28. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard in THE FALCON IN HOLLYWOOD 1944.

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  29. Floyd Thursby's avatar Floyd Thursby says:

    Looks like Rosemary DeCamp and Sheldon Leonard for Wednesday’s couple more than it does anyone else.

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  30. Megan's avatar Megan says:

    Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard

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  31. juliemerholz's avatar juliemerholz says:

    Another Thin Man..with Virginia Grey, Ruth Hussey, Sheldon Leonard, William Powell, Myrna Loy,
    Otto Kruger, Skippy, and C. Aubrey Smith.

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  32. Patrick's avatar Patrick says:

    Monday = Jean Brooks, Tuesday = Useff Ali, Wednesday = Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard.
    “The Falcon in Hollywood” from 1944

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  33. Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard.

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  34. Patrick's avatar Patrick says:

    Thursday = Veda Ann Borg

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  35. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Veda Ann Borg today.

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  36. Veda Ann Borg in the yellow cab hat. In my mind’s eye, I frequently get her stills confused with Wendy Barrie.

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  37. Oh, and the Veda Ann Borg flic is likely The Falcon in Hollywood making tomorrow’s leading man Tom Conway.

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  38. kthursby's avatar kthursby says:

    Wednesday’s guy looks like a young Sheldon Leonard. (Truth is, I always feel pressure to contribute when I see Floyd Thursby has gotten it right 🙂

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  39. Don Danard's avatar Don Danard says:

    One of my faves…..Veda Ann Borg today.

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  40. juliemerholz's avatar juliemerholz says:

    The Falcon In Hollywood with Veda Ann Borg,today, Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard yesterday, Useff Ali Tuesday, Jean Brooks on Monday and Tom Conway tomorrow.

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  41. ValleDave's avatar ValleDave says:

    Could the mystery woman be Jean Brooks ? If so, the series is “The Falcon.”

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  42. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    Veda Ann Borg says “Taxi, Mister”

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  43. LC's avatar LC says:

    The Falcon in Hollywood w/Barbara Hale, Tom Conway, Veda Ann Borg…

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  44. Rick's avatar Rick says:

    Wednesday’s guy Sheldon Leonard, movie is The Falcon in Hollywood

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  45. Bob Hansen's avatar Bob Hansen says:

    The Wednesday folks are Barbara Hale and Sheldon Leonard.

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  46. Barbara Klein's avatar Barbara Klein says:

    Pictured so far, Rita Corday, Useff Ali, Barbara Hale, Sheldon Leonard, and Veda Ann Borg in “The Falcon in Hollywood.”

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  47. Rick Scott's avatar Rick Scott says:

    Wednesday’s mystery lady on left looks like Barbara Hale. Thursday I think is Veda Ann Borg.

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  48. Mary Mallory's avatar Mary Mallory says:

    Tom Conway with Borg.

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  49. Barbara Klein's avatar Barbara Klein says:

    And for Friday, we have George Sanders’ better looking brother, Tom Conway.

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  50. Patrick's avatar Patrick says:

    Friday = Rita Corday and Tom Conway

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  51. Mike Hawks's avatar Mike Hawks says:

    Rita Corday is wondering if Tom Conway will introduce her to his brother George Sanders.

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  52. Don Danard's avatar Don Danard says:

    The lady at the racetrack…I would guess it’s Virginia Belmont but the only thing I remember her for was the Republic serial “Dangers of the Canadian Mounted”. Figures!

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  53. And for Friday we have the aforementioned Tom Conway and Rita Corday (at the race track?). Which, by the way, means our first lady lounging by the pool is Jean Simmons.

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  54. Jean Simmons?? Lol, where’d that come from? Jean Brooks.

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