Movieland Mystery Photo – Special Edition

Posted on August 21, 2017 by lmharnisch

Mystery Photo

Alan K. Rode sends along this undated mystery photo taken at the Warner Bros. commissary, showing Michael Curtiz, right, Howard Hawks, center, and a mystery fellow on the left. Any help in identifying our mystery chap would be much appreciated.

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9 Responses to Movieland Mystery Photo – Special Edition

  1. B.J. Merholz's avatar B.J. Merholz says:
    August 21, 2017 at 7:41 am

    Interesting hand signal your mystery man is flashing the photographer.

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  2. Anne Papineau's avatar Anne Papineau says:
    August 21, 2017 at 7:52 am

    Ben Kingsley

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  3. Gary Martin's avatar Gary Martin says:
    August 21, 2017 at 4:07 pm

    He certainly looks like playwright Thornton Wilder.

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  4. Bruce Reznick's avatar Bruce Reznick says:
    August 21, 2017 at 6:40 pm

    Kind of looks like the actor Bob Balaban, whose uncle Barney Balaban was President of Paramount. From what I can read on wikipedia (yes, I know), the Balaban brothers were in the business. Maybe it’s one of them.

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  5. tucsonbarbara's avatar tucsonbarbara says:
    August 22, 2017 at 11:08 am

    Don’t laugh, but he kinda sorta looks like Ben Hecht. Mr. Hecht, however, didn’t wear glasses.

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  6. mandymarie20's avatar mandymarie20 says:
    August 23, 2017 at 11:27 am

    I feel like I’ve seen this before. Wish I could remember who the third person was.

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  7. Diane Ely's avatar Diane Ely says:
    August 24, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    Maybe it was the commissary manager (sans apron).

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  8. Howard Decker's avatar Howard Decker says:
    August 25, 2017 at 3:44 pm

    The day you posted this I thought it looked like Ben Hecht, too. but I thought that was too obvious. I looked on the Great G*D Goog and found a photo of him with glasses, reading a radio script into a mike. Hummm.
    PS Wordmess is worthless. I can’t use my new email address because WP knows better. I hate Yahphew but WP wants me to keep it forever. Aaaaargh.

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  9. SylviaE's avatar SylviaE says:
    August 28, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    I still don’t know who the mystery man is, but I did locate 2 other photos (via google) taken the same day in the same general location and all 3 include Michael Curtiz wearing the suit he’s wearing in your photo. One photo includes Ingrid Bergman and Hal B. Wallace. The other photo has Ms. Bergman, Geraldine Fitzgerald and some others. Perhaps the photos are from a WB studio luncheon for the wrapping of or the release of Casablanca?? Does that info help anyone with who the mystery man is?

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