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[calimac]

I have another question for the wise minds out there. Never mind for now why I have the photos which I am here showing you scanned versions of (I'm fairly sure that what I have are the only print copies of these specific photos); what I want to know is, who's in them?

I'm fairly sure the photos were taken around 1940. Definitely +/- 10 years. I suspect the people visible in them are movie stars, but I don't recognize them. Well, maybe one, but I'm not saying who I think it is, because I don't want to prejudice other views.

Do you?





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[(Anonymous)]

The woman looks not unlike Ginger Rogers, although neither shot shows her face very clearly.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Maybe Ginger Rogers?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The man on the left looks very familiar from old movies, and the woman not unlike Ginger Rogers.

[(Anonymous)]

I reached out with this question to an acquaintance who's seen a lot more movies than I have, and he tentatively suggests that, left to right, the photos may show Fred Solm (1899-1982), Oscar Shaw (1887-1967), and Marion Davies (1897-1961). I'd never even heard of the first two actors, although Shaw was in the Marx Bros.' "Cocoanuts". Davies now is perhaps best known as the mistress of William Randolph Hearst, although she had a substantial silent film career. Unfortunately, the only film in which the three actors appeared together was the sound version of "Marianne" (1929), which doesn't quite fit your date range. I'm terrible with faces, so comparing your photos to others of those actors on Google isn't helping me. (My first guess for the fellow on the left was David Niven.)

-MTD/neb

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

I was reasonably sure the woman wasn't Rogers, but my best guess was Carole Lombard, who died before 1940. Also no photos of her look just like the woman pictured.

Davies seems plausible.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

Any update on this?