This week’s mystery movie has been “Die Buchse der Pandora” or “Pandora’s Box,” the 1929 Nero film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst from a screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda, photographed by Gunther Krampf, with Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Carl Goez, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts, Daisy d’Ora, Gustav Diessl, Michael v. Newlinsky and Siegfried Arno.
The earliest showing I can find in Los Angeles is a 1962 revival at UCLA in which “Pandora’s Box” was screened in a series with “Fires on the Plain,” “The Cousins,” “Sunset Boulevard” and “M.” The earliest screening I can find in New York is a 1959 showing at the High School of Fashion Industries auditorium.
The movie is available in a Criterion Collection edition.
For Monday, we have a mystery gent.
Update: This is Gustav Diessl.
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And for Tuesday, we have a mystery woman.
Google image search will be no help whatsoever.
Update: This is Daisy d’Ora.
Brain Trust roll call: Anne Papineau (Monday’s mystery guest), Floyd Thursby (mystery movie, Monday’s mystery guest), Krystyna Tuzen (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery guest), Amy Condit (mystery movie, Monday’s mystery guest) and Bob Hansen (mystery movie, Monday’s mystery guest).
I simply cannot resist two mystery gents in newsboy hats.
And as before, Google image search will be of no use. Although it forced me to scrap the mystery guest I originally planned for today.
Update: These gents are Michael Von Newlinsky and Franz Lederer.
Brain Trust roll call: Anne Papineau (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mystery guest).
And for Thursday, we have a mystery gent with a monocle.
Update: This is Fritz Kortner and Franz Lederer
And Google image search will be of no use – although I had to throw out a couple of other images before finding this one. Suffice it to say that this is not William Powell, Peter Lorre, Joseph Cotten or Frank Sinatra.
Brain Trust roll call: Sheila (mystery movie and mystery guests), Mike Hawks (Wednesday’s mystery guest) and Anne Papineau (Wednesday’s mystery guests).
And for Friday….
Update: Louise Brooks.
Brain Trust roll call: Mike Hawks (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery gent), Patrick (Thursday’s mystery gent/wrong movie), Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie with mystery guests) and Anne Papineau (Thursday’s mystery guest).
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Gustav Diessl
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Gustav Diessl in “Pandora’s Box.”
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Is it Gustav Diessl in “Pandora’s Box”?
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Donald Calthrop.
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Interesting guess. But alas, I’m afraid not.
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Looks like silent-era Conrad Veidt.
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Interesting guess. But alas, I’m afraid not.
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The movie is Pandora’s Box from 1928 starring Louise Brooks, and this guy played a sort of Jack the Ripper. I don’t know the actor’s name though! Francis Lederer was in it too.
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Joan Bennett today?
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Daisy D’Ora in Pandora’s Box
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I love that Google Images thinks that the late Antonin Scalia is visually similar to the image.
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Yes, it’s very entertaining. It’s really good on color images, but black and white are more of a challenge.
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Gustav Diessl, Daisy D’Ora, Franz Lederer in ‘Pandora’s Box’?
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Francis Lederer at left.
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Ann Harding! (For Tuesday, I mean.)
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Interesting guess, but alas, no.
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On Wednesday, I’ll say Francis Lederer and Michael von Newlinsky
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Cagney today, with what looks like the back of William Wellman’s head.
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Unglücklicherweise nicht.
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Fritz Kortner with Francis in PANDORA’S BOX. Guess I had not seen this in a long time.
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Thursday = Fritz Kortner in “Three Loves” from 1929.
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Thursday looks like James Cagney to me
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Unglücklicherweise nicht.
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“Pandora’s Box”
Monday: Gustav Diessl
Tuesday: Dasiy D’Ora
Wednesday: Michael Von Newlinsky & Frances Lederer
Thursday: Fritz Kortner & Frances Lederer
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Fritz Kortner sporting a monocle.
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Hello Larry, Could the mystery gentleman on the right, in the jaunty bow tie and tweeds, be a young Melvyn Douglas? (His companion reminds me of Tyrone Power, but I doubt you would feature him on a Wednesday.)
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Unglücklicherweise nicht.
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Louise Brooks and DIARY OF A LOST GIRL. Is that why you were answering in German yesterday?.
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Our Miss Brooks
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Louise Brooks in PANDORA’S BOX. PS she was only 5 ft 2?
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Louise Brooks on Friday
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Louise Brooks today.
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Looks like Louise Brooks is causing trouble again.
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Friday looks like Louis Brooks
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I think the movie is Pandora’s Box
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Tues must be Daisy D’ora since this is Pandora’s Box
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It’s either Louise Brooks or an actress in a Louise Brooks wig.
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I should have gotten the hint from the response in German to my guess yesterday. Today is Louise Brooks. From the infamous Pandora’s Box I imagine.
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Ja. 🙂
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