Category Archives: Mystery Photo

Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s another photo from the amazing collection of Steven Bibb!

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Los Angeles City Hall is in the background. Where was this shot and what’s the movie?

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated +]

[Update: This is Evelyn Daw in the 1937 film “Something to Sing About,” in which James Cagney plays a bandleader.] Here’s a mystery lady from the amazing collection of Steven Bibb! There’s a new photo on the jump!

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s a mystery pair from the incredible collection of Steven Bibb – in the news business this pose is often called a “grip and grin.” [Update: Producer Harlan Thompson welcomes Gladys Swarthout to Hollywood to appear in “Champagne Waltz,” 1936. … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Update]

Gosh, a mystery photo in color? Yes, thanks to Steven Bibb! And no, I can’t think of any Native Americans who actually dress like this, except for Hollywood Indians. [Update: This is Lisa Gaye. Please congratulate CandyC, Don Danard and … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s a mystery fellow, from the collection of Steven Bibb. [Update: This is Juan Varro. According to imdb, his roles include a gigolo in “Mighty Joe Young.” I don’t recall a gigolo in “Mighty Joe Young,” but I haven’t seen … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

[Update: This is Mona Barrie.] Here’s another mystery lady from the collection of Steven Bibb. There’s a new photo on the jump!

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s another mystery photo from the amazing collection of Steven Bibb! [Update: This is Natalie Thompson, who appeared in “The Vanishing Virginian.” ]

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Movieland Mystery Photos – Special Edition [Updated]

[Update: I thought it might be helpful if I enlarged the faces of our mystery gents. My hunch is that the fellow on the right is Laurence Olivier. [I have also received three more photos and I now suspect that … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s a mystery couple!

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s today’s mystery chap, courtesy of Steven Bibb!

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s another mystery chap, courtesy of Steven Bibb. [Update: This is Robert Beatty. Please congratulate Don Danard and Rotter for identifying him. Here’s his obituary in the Los Angeles Times | New York Times ]

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Movieland Mystery Photo

Here’s today’s mystery photo, courtesy of Steven Bibb!

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated ++]

Here’s today’s mystery lady…. Update: This is Cobina Wright Jr., who recently appeared in Eve Golden’s Queen of the Dead.

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W.C. Fields and the Los Angeles Public Library — Mystery Photo

Last night, I was watching “The Bank Dick,” as I have  many times before, but this was the first with my new plasma TV, so I was much more aware of the detail. I spotted a photo of what looked … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Update: This is Eve Miller (d. 1973). Here’s a mystery woman, courtesy of Steven Bibb.

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s another mystery fellow, courtesy of Steven Bibb.

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Here’s another mystery chap, courtesy of Steven Bibb.

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Roosevelt Declares Early Thanksgiving

Nov. 9, 1941: Amid the gathering clouds of World War II, President Roosevelt declares what will be the last peacetime Thanksgiving. Noting American aid to nations fighting the Axis, Roosevelt says: “Let us ask the divine blessing of our decision … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated ++++]

And for Thursday, here’s another mystery chap! Update: This is Nils Asther (d. 1981) 

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