This is the Metro “Golwyn” Mayer production of “Penthouse,” with Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes and C. Henry Gordon, directed by W.W. Van Dyke. Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from a story by Arthur Somers Roche.
And for Monday, we have a somewhat disheveled gent.
This familiar face belongs to Guy Usher.
And for Tuesday, we have this dapper fellow.
This is, of course, C. Henry Gordon.
Please congratulate Lee Ann, Megan and Thom for identifying Monday’s gent.
And for Wednesday, we have a mystery woman.
And yes, this is Mae Clarke.
Please congratulate Mary Mallory (mystery film and guests), Lee Ann, Megan and Thom (Tuesday’s mystery guest), Don Danard (Tuesday’s mystery guest), Jenny M (Tuesday’s mystery guest), Rick (Tuesday’s mystery guest), Benito (Tuesday’s mystery guest), Rick Scott (Tuesday’s mystery guest), Dan Nather (Tuesday’s mystery guest), Michael Ryerson (mystery movie and mystery guests) and Mitch (Tuesday’s mystery guest).
A salute to Dan Nather for watching “Dance, Fools, Dance” and “Fog Over Frisco” in an impressive, but unsuccessful, attempt to identify this week’s mystery movie. Your labors are most impressive. All will become clear by the end of the week.
Here’s our (totally not) mystery lady for Thursday. Look how young she is here.
Myrna Loy, already a screen veteran.
Please congratulate Mary Mallory (Wednesday’s mystery woman), Don Danard (Wednesday’s mystery woman), Patrick (Wednesday’s mystery woman), Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and mystery guests), Michael Ryerson (Wednesday’s mystery woman), Megan Lee Ann and Thom (mystery movie and Wednesday’s mystery guest), Bob Hansen (Wednesday’s mystery woman), dlhartzog (Tuesday’s mystery gent), Dan Nather (mystery movie and mystery guests) and ValleyDave (Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s mystery guests)
And for Friday… no, he’s too easy.
Warner Baxter.
And for Friday… no, no, no… still too easy.
Nat Pendleton.
Still too easy. Like he wasn’t in every gangster picture ever made.
George E. “Toothpick Charlie” Stone.
Ah. Our Friday mystery gent.
And Charles Butterworth.
Please congratulate Dan Nather (mystery movie and guests), Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mystery woman), Don Danard (Thursday’s mystery woman), Patrick (mystery movie and guests), Gary Martin (Thursday’s mystery woman), dlhartzog (mystery movie and mystery guests), Dewey Webb (Thursday’s mystery woman), Julie Merholz (mystery movie and guests), MandyMarie20 (Thursday’s mystery woman) and beachgal (Thursday’s mystery woman).
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He reminds me of James Keach.
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Is this Guy Usher?
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I admit ignorance, but the look suggests newsroom … City editor, maybe
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It does, doesn’t it? 🙂
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Today’s Mystery Man looks like Al Bridge.
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Alas, no.
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Next guess … a youngish William B. Davidson.
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I’m afraid not.
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Wiliam B. Davidson?
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Alas, no.
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Walter Connolly
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Alas, no.
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William B. Davidson? He was always playing newspaper editors with indigestion. (ditto for D.A.s, Lawyers and occasionally Detectives.)
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You’re the first person to guess William B. Davidson. Alas, the answer is still no. 🙂
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The often agitated Purnell Pratt.
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An interesting guess. But alas, no.
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I say Charlie Grapewin
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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If not for the candlestick phone peeking out on the left side of the photo, I would have guessed this was rather contemporary, based on what resembles an open laptop computer on the right.
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That would be something. Assuming vests make a big comeback in menswear.
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The wonderfully oily Henry C. Gordon today.
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I meant C. Henry Gordon.
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Tuesday’s gent (usually a criminal mastermind or nefarious agent) is C. Henry Gordon.
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Today it’s the shifty looking C. Henry Gordon. Errol Flynn gave him what for in “The Charge of the Light Brigade”.
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Tuesday – C. Henry Gordon
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the eternally villainous C. Henry Gordon
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Tuesday’s gent is C. Henry Gordon, who was the inspector in SCARFACE [1932]. He usually played oily snake types.
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Tuesday is C. Henry Gordon, one of great villains of the 30s.
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A stab at a guess – Tues might be Warren William
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Interesting guess. But alas, no.
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Well, nearly everybody guessed who I was going to guess yesterday, Purnell Pratt and William B. Davidson. I even watched DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE and FOG OVER FRISCO to check, and dashed my hopes. Today, however, C. Henry Gordon is easy to spot.
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Tuesday’s dapper fellow is C. Henry Gordon who had recently experienced some difficulties with the Light Brigade.
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So with Hank Gordon on Tuesday and Guy Usher on Monday we find ourselves with Penthouse (1933), Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy (Gertie?), Charles Butterworth and Mae Clarke. Little seen.
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Henry C Gordon for Tuesday’s
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Mae Clarke.
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I would say today’s Mystery Lady is Mae Clarke.
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Pretty sure Wednesday’s mystery woman is Mae Clarke.
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Wednesday’s gal sure looks like Molly Ringwald!
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Interesting, but historically impossible unless she has a time machine we don’t know about.
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How else could she have remained a teenager for so long?
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The movie is “Penthouse” whose mystery cast members are Guy Usher, C. Henry Gordon and Mae Clarke.
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Wednesday is Mae Clarke, a lovely and gifted actress who would go on to champion the use of citrus fruit as a facial astringent.
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Alice Brady for Wednesday?
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Interesting guess, but I’m afraid not.
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Mae Clarke
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Our guess is Penthouse.
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Tuesday, Henry Sedley.
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Wednesday’s young lady is Mae Clarke.
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Tuesday, C. Henry Gordon.
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Douglas Dumbrille (Tues.)
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Douglas would be a likely guess. But alas, no.
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Is that Mae Clarke today?
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Tuesday it’s C. Henry Gordon. Wednesday looks like Mae Clarke.
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And after popping another DVD in the old laptop, I find that the movie is PENTHOUSE, with Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Nat Pendleton, and the aforementioned Mae Clarke. Which makes Monday’s mystery editor Guy Usher (who?).
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Myrna Loy today. This is a fun film, I’ve seen it twice.
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Today – the always lovely Myrna Loy
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If we add Thursday’s Myrna Loy to yesterday’s Mae Clarke, throw in Guy Usher on Monday and C. Henry Gordon on Tuesday, we get “Penthouse” from 1933.
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Less than a year from the Thin Man (based on release dates).
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For Tuesday Cyril Thornton and Thursday Myrna Whatshername. The Thin Man? that simple?
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Wednesday’s actress is Greta Nissen
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I’m afraid not. Sorry.
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Beatrice Lillie? Show of Shows?
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I’m afraid not. All will be clear tomorrow. 🙂
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Myrna Loy, today, Penthouse?
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Wednesday, Mae Clarke.
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Myrna Loy
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Myrna Loy
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Penthouse 1933, also with, Warner Baxter, Mae Clarke, C. Henry Gordon,
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Myrna Loy for Thursday. Love her!
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Wednesday, Aileen Pringle?
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Sorry, I’m afraid not.
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I’m guessing the film is Wife vs. Secretary
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Alas, no.
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Thus. actress is Miss ‘I Went to Venice High School’ and I modeled for a statue they put in front of the school, Myrna Loy
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Today it’s Myrna Loy, who was 28 when she made PENTHOUSE, and had already been in show biz for 8 years.
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IN order, Warner Baxter, Nat Pendleton, george E. Stone, and Charlie Butterworth.
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Stella Adler
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Actually, no. Sorry.
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Gee, with this cast it must be Penthouse, 1933. I remember it as a film with a lot of mystery men in the cast. You seem to have included them all.
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Charlie Butterworth, Mae Clarke, George E. Stone, Nat Pendleton, et Al in PENTHOUSE
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Awesome quiz, thanks!
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Thanks for reading!
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Friday:
Gent 1 – Warner Baxter
Gent 2 – Nat Pendleton
Gent 3 – George E Stone
Gent 4 – Charles Butterworth
So, Wednesday must have been Mae Clarke.
I have to believe the film is 1933’s Penthouse.
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Our designated mystery gent today is the quietly absurd Charles Butterworth — who looks a little soulful here. He comes after Warner Baxter, Nat Pendleton, and George E. Stone. For some reason, I actually felt sorry for George in this movie. By the way, the other movie Baxter and Stone were in together earlier in 1933 was 42ND STREET.
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I will go ahead and put my two cents in, even though it was way too easy this week. It’s Penthouse (1933) Myrna Loy, Warner Baxter, Charles Butterworth and a host of others.
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Is the movie “Broadway Bill” – 1934?
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We did “Broadway Bill” and “Riding High” a few months ago… Sorry.
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Wen is Mae Clarke
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Tues is C. Henry Gordon – so the film must be Penthouse
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Friday must be Warren Baxter, Nate Pendleton, George E. Stone and Charles Butterworth
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One last bit of trivia: the May 1932 issue of Cosmopolitan in back of the opening credits of PENTHOUSE, heralding the first installment of Arthur Somers Roche’s serial, is the same issue that Loretta Young is reading in the courtroom in the opening minutes of MIDNIGHT MARY, released by MGM just three months earlier. A bit of shameless self-promotion, perhaps? (NB: When I watched MM to check, Loretta was reading a different issue of Cosmopolitan in the long shot, but in her following close-up, it’s definitely the May 1932 issue.)
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Now *that* is research. 🙂 Hats off to you!
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