This week’s mystery movie was the 1940 Warner Bros. short Service With the Colors, with Robert Armstrong, William Lundigan, Henry O’Neill, William Orr, Herbert Anderson and George Haywood.
Screenplay by Owen Crump.
Technicolor photography by Charles P. Boyle.
Technicolor color director Natalie Kalmus.
Edited by Frederick Richards.
Directed by B. Reeves Eason.
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I picked Service With the Colors because it was on the same DVD as last week’s Come to the Stable and it fit with Pearl Harbor Day. It’s the story of a young malcontent (William Orr) who enlists but then resents everything about Army life before redeeming himself at the end.
For Monday, we have a mystery guest. His companions have been cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness and will appear later.
For Tuesday, Monday’s mysterious fellow has a mystery companion, Top of the Head Guy (a.k.a. Digging for Mustard Guy).
For Friday, adding a mysterious sergeant.
Update: This is, from left, Robert Armstrong, George Haywood and Herbert Anderson.
For Tuesday, Monday’s mystery fellow has a mysterious companion. The rest of the group has been cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness and will appear later.
Update: For “Aha Thursday,” we have another mysterious recruit.
For Friday, adding a fourth mysterious recruit.
Update: This is, from left, George Haywood, Herbert Anderson, William Lundigan and William Orr.
For “Hm Wednesday,” we have a mysterious fellow rocking his Sam Browne belt.
Update: This is Henry O’Neill.
Brain Trust roll call: Jenny M. (mystery movie and both mystery guests), Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie, mystery guests and mystery guests cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness), Richard Wegescheide (Tuesday’s mysterious future sitcom star), Incredibleinman (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mysterious future sitcom star), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and both mystery guests) and Benito (Tuesday’s future sitcom star).
Sylvia and Richard: You’re on the right track!
For “Aha Thursday,” we have a mysterious lieutenant.
Update: This is John Ridgley.
We also have this mysterious fellow.
Update: This is William Lundigan.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Wednesday’s mysterious colonel), Howard Mandelbaum (Wednesday’s mysterious colonel), L.C. (mystery movie and mysterious cast), Sylvia E. (mystery movie, Tuesday’s future sitcom star and Wednesday’s mysterious colonel), Greg (Tuesday’s mysterious future sitcom star and Wednesday’s mystery colonel), Mike Hawks (Wednesday’s mystery colonel), B.J. Merholz (mystery movie and Wednesday’s mysterious colonel), Anne Papineau (mystery movie and all mystery guests) and Megan and Thom (Wednesday’s mysterious colonel).
For Friday, we have a kindly, lovable mystery sergeant and a recruit who does not approve of Army life.
Update: This is Robert Armstrong, left, and William Orr.
Brain Trust roll call: Anne Papineau (Thursday’s mystery guests), Sylvia E. (mysterious lieutenant and mysterious recruit), Mike Hawks (Thursday’s mystery guests), Mary Mallory (mystery movie and all mystery guests) and Megan and Thom (mystery movie and all mystery guests).
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Hmm. Green beans, ketchup, and World War II-era Army uniforms. Possibly a very young Robert Stack?
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You’re on the right track!
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THIS IS THE ARMY.
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An excellent guess! But alas, I’m afraid not.
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Movie – Service with the Colors (1940)
Monday – George Haywood
Tuesday – Herbert Anderson
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THOUSANDS CHEER with Gene Kelly.
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An excellent guess, but alas, I’m afraid not.
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Monday: George Haywood in SERVICE WITH THE COLORS – 1940 U.S. Army Recruiting Film
Tuesday: William Orr, Herbert Anderson, William Lundigan
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Also Monday: Herbert Anderson
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Herbert Anderson on the right both days. Definitely early WW2 era movie, maybe one the short subject pics that were common then.
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Herbert Anderson is one of the fellows today. Could this be the short “Service with the Colors”?
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George Haywood and Herbert Anderson in SERVICE WITH THE COLORS.
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Herbert Anderson, pre- Dennis
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This looks like one of those films done in the 1940s to encourage young men to sign up for the military, almost like a training film rather than a feature. I’m sure that it is not, though. Just on the low-budget side of things.
Interesting interchange between skretvedt1958 and you. I see why they picked Mr. Stack. Putting on my own thinking cap.
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Re: previous meandering, is image 2 a flashback to how all the image 1 guys came to be in the same unit?
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Henry O’Neill today and THOUSANDS CHEER. I answered that a day or so ago.
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Henry O’Neill.
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Service with the Colors (1940) Herbert Anderson, Henry O’Neill, Robert Armstrong, William Lundigan, William T. Orr, George Haywood…
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“Service with the Colors” 1940 seems to fit.
Henry O’Neill is in it and I think one of young men swearing in on Tuesday looks like Herbert Anderson (sans eyeglasses) who’s also in the film.
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The only thing that I’m sure about this week is that Wednesday’s colonel is Henry O’neill. Monday and Tuesday’s recruits are a little foggier but the guy on the right in both photos resembles Dennis the Menace’s father, Herbert Anderson and the GI on the left sorta looks like William T. Orr. I won’t be crushed if I’m incorrect.
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Henry O’Neill.
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With nothing better to do today I did some Julie research and leveraged O’Neil into Service with the Colors.
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George Haywood and Herbert Anderson dining and joining up. On Wednesday, Henry O’ Neill in “Service with the Colors.”
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Henry O’Neill for today. He had lots of military roles.
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On Aha Thursday, John Ridgely as the lieutenant and William Lundigan as a volunteer.
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Thursday – John Ridgely in image 1
I think William Lundigan is in image 2. He’d also be the “cropped out for lack of mysteriousness” guy from Tuesday.
Maybe William T. Orr is Monday’s FG guy and the screen left guy from Tuesday?
Leaves Robert Armstrong for Friday.
I’m curious to finally know who Monday’s “mustard guy” is. George Haywood and Mike Donovan don’t have a huge amount of credits or reference photos, so maybe it’s one of them.
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William Lundigan and John Ridgely.
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SERVICE WITH THE COLORS. I was not expecting a short. George Haywood and Herbert Anderson Monday, Haywood, Mike Donovan, and William Lundigan, O’Neill Wednesday, and John Ridgeley and William Lundigan today.
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Our short is Service with the Colors, with John Ridgely and William Lundigan for today. Herbert Anderson and George Haywood appeared on Tuesday and Monday.
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Robert Armstrong Monday and today, and William T. Orr.
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Robert Armstrong and William T. Orr.
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John Ridgely, Wm Lundigan, Robert Armstrong. Looks like SERVICE WITH THE COLORS 1940, revving up for WW2
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Robert Armstrong, William T. Orr.
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