Cary O’Dell at the Library’s National Recording Registry is the maestro of our ever-popular Mystery Photo Contest. He’s back with another round, featuring some of Hollywood’s not-so-famous faces.
Hello fellow photo sleuths!
For your frustration, we submit to you nine more super-hard, super-obscure publicity stills that the Library is trying to identify.
This new batch, like others in the previous MPC series, came to the Library’s Moving Image section as part of a much larger collection of film, TV and music stills. Most were properly identified, but these are among those that stumped us.
So we need your help. Do any of the people, places or things below look familiar?
A few words of caution:
- We’ve tried web-based reverse-image searches; they don’t work.
- We have no information beyond what is listed below. There are no dates, locations or titles. They may not be from the United States.
- Standards of proof: We’d most like to see the same photo, with the person’s name, in a newspaper, magazine or somesuch. Failing that, another image from the same photo shoot, but with the person named
Good luck to one and all!
#1 This might be vaudeville star Stella Mayhew but we haven’t been able to confirm. |
#2 Another of our distinguished mystery gents. |
#3 This lady reminds many of an opera star…but who knows? |
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#4 No, this is not your high school history teacher, at least so far as we know. We assume he’s an actor but don’t know his name. |
#5 This photo has been severely cropped as the rest of it is NSFW (!). Hopefully someone can identify her by her face. |
#6 Though, in the face, she looks a bit like Louise Fletcher, it’s not. So who is the lady in the wild hat? |
 #7 We have several stills, in different “looks,” for this young lady. Perhaps she was a budding actress? |
 #8 Another cropped photo of another actress/singer/performer whose name eludes us. |
#9 This is not Ben Maddow (though that’s a good guess). We are still attempting to identify this mystery man with camera. |
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September 30, 2019 at 11:12 am
#6 looks very much like Capucine. In 1963, she was in THE PINK PANTHER, part of which was set in the Alps.
September 30, 2019 at 11:41 am
Would you please let us know when you identify these folks…it would be great to solve the mystery
The one on the bottom left looks like a really young Natalie Wood.
September 30, 2019 at 12:18 pm
#7 looks like Genesis Rodriguez
#8 looks like Kim Fields
#6 looks like Esther Williams
September 30, 2019 at 1:05 pm
HI GRACE–WE WILL MOST CERTAINLY LET YOU KNOW ONCE WE HAVE A POSITIVE ID ON ANY OF THESE.
September 30, 2019 at 1:06 pm
HI GRACE–AND EVERYONE–WE WILL MOST CERTAINLY LET YOU KNOW WHEN WE HAVE THESE SOLVED! THX.
September 30, 2019 at 2:01 pm
#8 looks like Dorothy Dandridge.
September 30, 2019 at 2:02 pm
#4 – Lee Iacocca
September 30, 2019 at 3:42 pm
#8 – Jane March?
September 30, 2019 at 5:23 pm
Wasn’t #5 identified as Angela Dawn in Photo Blog 22 from 2017?
September 30, 2019 at 7:00 pm
8 either is eartha kitt or dorothy dandridge
October 1, 2019 at 4:56 am
Pamela Franklyn
October 1, 2019 at 5:03 am
& Looks like Pamela Franklin
October 1, 2019 at 6:10 am
#9 resembles Sidney Miller a long time child-adolescent-character actor, later a director…
October 1, 2019 at 8:38 am
SHAWN– YOU ARE CORRECT. MY ERR. SO THAT ONE IS SOLVED. BUT THE OTHER EIGHT ARE STILL IN SEARCH OF A SOLUTION. THX.
October 1, 2019 at 8:45 am
Is #5 Joan Bennett?
October 1, 2019 at 8:52 am
Could #6 be a young Joan Collins?
October 1, 2019 at 9:30 am
HI SHAWN–YOU ARE CORRECT! MY ERR. THAT ONE IS SOLVED BUT THE OTHER, AS OF THIS WRITING, STILL REQUIRE SOLUTIONS. THX.
October 1, 2019 at 7:10 pm
#7 looks like Ashley Judd
October 1, 2019 at 8:06 pm
#9 looks like director, George Cukor.
October 1, 2019 at 8:19 pm
Could #7 be a young Brooke Shields?
October 1, 2019 at 8:49 pm
#2 I recall seeing him on a tv show in the 60s or 70s, I think a variety show–a walk-on bit, and I associate him with Hal Linden the actor. I think he was a musician– perhaps a pianist. The tuxedo was certainly what a certain set of musicians was doing at the time. I didn’t think much of his stage presence (as a young adolescent.)
October 2, 2019 at 1:15 pm
#7 looks like Justine Bateman
March 26, 2020 at 4:34 am
Hmmm