This week’s mystery movie was the 1929 First National picture Sally, with Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, T. Roy Barnes, Pert Kelton, Ford Sterling, Maude Turner Gordon, E.J. Ratcliffe, Jack Duffy, Ethel Stone and Nora Lane.
From Florenz Ziegfeld’s musical comedy by Guy Bolton, author, Jerome Kern, composer. Directed by John Francis Dillon.
Screen version by Waldemar Young. Photography by Ev Jennings and C. Edger Schoenbaum.
Ballet numbers by Albertina Rasch Ballet.
Stage Ensemble by Larry Ceballos.
First National Vitaphone All Color Production. Photographed by Technicolor.
Vitaphone Orchestra conducted by Leo F. Forbstein.
More on the history of Sally is available from the AFI catalog.
Sally is available on a Warner Archive DVD from Critics’ Choice Video. Although Sally was shot in two-strip Technicolor, only a short dance segment survives. The rest of the print is from a fuzzy black and white copy.
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I picked Sally by searching the New York Times for movies that Mordaunt Hall actually liked. Sally was on his list of the 10 best films of 1929, from the New York Times, Jan. 5, 1930:
For Monday, we have a mystery gentleman and a mysterious companion. A second mystery companion has been cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness.
Updating for Friday: Adding the second mystery companion with insufficient mysteriousness.
Update: This is Jack Duffy and Joe E. Brown in profile. The woman companion has a small role and is unidentified.
For Tuesday, we have a mystery woman and a mysterious companion.
Update: This is Maude Turner Gordon and E.J. Ratcliffe.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Monday’s mystery gent), Skretvedt1958 (Monday’s mystery gent), and Mike Hawks (Monday’s mystery gent).
Our first guest for “Hm Wednesday” is a mystery woman.
Update: This is Pert Kelton.
Next, we have a mystery fellow.
Update: This is T. Roy Barnes.
And another mystery fellow. His mystery companion has been cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness and will appear later.
Updating for Thursday: A mystery companion with insufficient mysteriousness.
Update: This is Ford Sterling in a non-Keystone Kops role and Joe E. Brown.
Brain Trust roll call: Mike Hawks (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mystery guests) and Mary Mallory (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mystery guests).
For “Aha Thursday,” we have this mysterious fellow.
Update: Joe E. Brown in the brief color segment of Sally.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Wednesday’s mystery guests and mystery guest cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness), Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and Wednesday’s mystery guests), Mike Hawks (Wednesday’s mystery guests) and Sheila (mystery movie and all mystery guests).
And for Friday, our mysterious leading man and leading lady.
Update: This is Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mystery fellow), Tucson Barbara (Thursday’s mystery fellow), Earl Boebert (Thursday’s mysterious gent), Gary (Thursday’s mystery guest), Mike Hawks (Thursday’s mystery guest), Roget-L.A. (Thursday’s mystery fellow), Sylvia E. (mystery movie and all mystery guests). Benito (Thursday’s mystery fellow), Beach Gal (mystery movie and all mystery guests) and Anne Papineau (mystery movie with Wednesday’s and Thursday’s mystery guests).
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Is Monday’s mystery man Harry Davenport?
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A good guess, but alas, I’m afraid not.
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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Could the woman be Polly Walters?
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A good guess, but alas, I’m afraid not.
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The Younger Generation.
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The right era, but Ricardo Cortez is in Mystery Movie Jail for now….
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Jack Duffy is our actor.
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I’m not sure who the lady is (maybe Kay Deslys?), but the gentleman is definitely Jack Duffy, known to all silent comedy film devotees.
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Jack Duffy in????????????
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Richard Carle?
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An excellent guess, but alas, I’m afraid not.
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Remember him when he played Farmer Alfalfa in ancient cartoons. Too bad they hadn’t yet invented Residuals…
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Maude Turner Gordon and E.J. Ratcliffe in SALLY.
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Sally. Maude Taylor Gordon and E. J. Ratcliffe today
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Pert Kelton, T. Roy Barnes, and Ford Sterling.
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T. Roy Barnes, Pert Kelton, Ford Sterling in SALLY, 1929.
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Pert Kelton, T. Roy Barnes and Ford Sterling.
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Maude Turner Gordon, Pert Kelton, T. Roy Barnes and Ford Sterling, ‘Sally’?
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Joe E. Brown cut out today.
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Joe E. Brown today.
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Joe E. Brown
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Joe E. Brown in “On With The Show???”
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This might be On with the Show …in natural color…parts…with Joe E. Brown.
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Joe E. Brown.
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Thursday’s mysterious fellow: Joe E. Brown in The Circus Kid (1928)?
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I have found “the silver lining” on Thursday.
“Sally” 1929
Monday – Jack Duffy (I think) no guess on the young lady
Tuesday – Maude Turner Gordon (I think) no guess on the guy
Wednesday – a very young Pert Kelton (I knew, I knew that face.) Maaayyybe T. Roy Barnes is the middle image??, Ford Sterling is the guy next to Joe E. Ross
Thursday – Joe E. Ross. I think Marilyn Miller is just OS
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Billy De Wolfe and Joe E. Brown today
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Wed #1 – Pert Melton
Wed #2 – T. Roy Barnes
Wed #3 – for Thurs reveal, Joe E. Brown
Thurs – Joe E. Brown
Tues – Maude Turner Gordon
Mon – Jack Duffy
Our film is Sally (1929)
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Ooos, Wed should have read, Pert Kelton – darn spell check
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I think Wed #3 (left) might be Ford Sterling
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I think Tues #1 is E.J. Ratcliffe next to Maude Turner Gordon
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Might this be 1929’s “Sally,” with Pert Kelton, T. Roy Barnes, Ford Sterling and Joe E. Brown?
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Joe E. Brown Monday and Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray today.
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Fri – Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray
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Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray.
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Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray in Sally (1929)
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Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray
Looking forward to Saturday’s breakdown.
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Is the ‘Aha Thursday’ man Joe E. Brown?
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Fri reveal on Monday’s photo is Alexander Gray
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