Who's that lady? 1
Spanish postcard by Archivo Bermejo - Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 2
Spanish postcard by Soberanas, Barcelona, no. 212. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 3
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto Milano. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 4
Argentinian postcard by Exclusividad Max Glucksmann. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 5
Dutch postcard, no. 941. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 6
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano. Collection: Marlene Pilaete. Caption: I smile at the past and think about the future... must I fix the gaze or flee?! ...
Who's that lady? 7
Spanish postcard by Archivo Bermejo - Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, no. 1331. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 8
Spanish postcard by Archivo Bermejo, Barcelona, no. 7651. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 9
Spanish postcard by JDP, Valencia, no. 2006. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 10
Artura postcard. Photo: Witzel, L.A. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 11
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 12
Dutch postcard, no. 1042. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 13
Spanish postcard, no. 2838. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 14
Italian postcard by Gianni Ferrari, Verona, no. 19. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 15
Spanish postcard by C.M.B., no. 215. photo: 20th Century Fox. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Who's that lady? 16
AZO postcard, no. 280. The lady to identify on this postcard is the one sitting on her bed and lacing her shoes, at the extreme left of the postcard. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Tomorrow, 27 November 2020, you will find all the solutions here below.
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And here are the results!
1. Olympe Bradna
French-born Olympe Bradna (1920-2012) signed with Paramount in 1936. Among her films are Souls at Sea (1937), in which she gave a touching performance, and the aptly titled comedy Say It in French (1938). She retired after her marriage to a socialite in 1941.
2. Sheila Ryan
Sheila Ryan (1921-1975) worked with Roy Rogers in Song of Texas (1943) and with Gene Autry in The Cowboys and the Indians (1949), Mule Train (1950), On Top of Old Smoky (1953), and Pack Train (1953). She also played with Laurel and Hardy in Great Guns (1941) and A-Haunting We Will Go (1942). Among her other films are several crime dramas such as Deadline for Murder (1946), Railroaded (1947), The Cobra Strikes (1948), and the Western Pacific Agent (1950).
3. Susan Cabot
Susan Cabot (1927-1986) starred in Sorority Girl (1957), Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957), Carnival Rock (1957), War of the Satellites (1958), Mitraillette Kelly (1958) and The Wasp Woman (1959), all directed by Roger Corman. These are her best-known films. In her personal life, the actress had an affair with King Hussein of Jordan. She met a tragic end when, in 1986, she was beaten to death by her son.
4. Gail Kane
Gail Kane (1885-1966) made her film debut in 1913. Until 1921, she starred in about thirty films. Among them are The Jungle (1914), Her Great Match (1915), The Scarlet Oath (1916), The Red Woman (1917), Love’s Law (1918), Empty Arms (1920), and Idle hands (1921). Thereafter, she went back on the stage and appeared only two more times on the screen. In her next to last film, The White Sister (1923), she played the malevolent half-sister of Lillian Gish.
5. Sally Blane
Charming B movie star Sally Blane (1910-1997) was Loretta Young’s sister. From the end of the ’20s to 1939, she was featured in such films as The Very Idea (1929), X Marks the Spot (1931), Probation (1932), Stolen Sweets (1934), Crashing Through Danger (1936), Numbered Woman (1938), etc. She also starred in two British productions, Mayfair Girl (1933) and Crime on the Hill (1933), and appeared opposite Bela Lugosi in Night of Terror (1933). Her next to last film, La fuga (1944), was directed in Mexico by her husband, Norman Foster.
6. Cleo Moore
Sultry blonde Cleo Moore (1924-1973) made her mark in seven dramas directed by Hugo Haas: Strange Fascination (1952), One Girl’s Confession (1953), Thy Neighbor’s Wife (1953), Bait (1954), The Other Woman (1954), Hold Back Tomorrow (1955) and Hit and Run (1957). “I’m the kind of girl every man wants … but shouldn’t marry”, “Men and money and me go together !”, “Every man she touched … she destroyed”, “She played with fire once too often”, “Pay-up sucker … pick-up girl … hush-up lover” and “I can’t give you anything but love and murder, baby !” were some of the taglines used on the film posters. What more could we add?
7. Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox (1917-2012) worked steadily in Hollywood in the ’40s. Her best-known film is The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), in which she co-starred with Lon Chaney Jr. She also played the hero’s girlfriend in the Joe Palooka series from 1946 to 1949. She married football star Tom Harmon in 1944. Her son, Mark Harmon, is one of the stars of the television series NCIS since 2003.
8. Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (1931) won an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance in West Side Story (1961). Among her other films are Seven Cities of Gold (1955), The King and I (1956), The Deerslayer (1957), This Rebel Breed (1960), Cry of Battle (1963), The Night of the Following Day (1969), The Ritz (1976), etc. This outstanding performer was also awarded a Grammy in 1972, a Tony in 1975, and two Emmys in 1977 and 1978.
9. Carole Landis
Carole Landis (1919-1948) became famous thanks to her role as a prehistoric woman in One Million B.C. (1940). Among her films are I Wake Up Screaming (1941), It Happened in Flatbush (1942), Four Jills in a Jeep (1944), A Scandal in Paris (1946), It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog (1947), etc. During World War II, it is said that she spent more time visiting troops than any other actress. She ended her film career in England with Noose (1948) and Brass Monkey (1948). She committed suicide on the 5th of July 1948. She supposedly has been deeply affected by the end of her affair with Rex Harrison, who was married at the time to Lilli Palmer.
10. Edith Storey
Edith Storey (1892-1967) was a major Vitagraph star during the silent era. Among her films are A Western Heroine (1911), The Telephone Girl (1912), Captain Mary Brown (1913), The Christian (1914), In the Latin quarter (1915), The Dust of Egypt (1915), The Shop Girl (1916), Money Magic (1917), Aladdin from Broadway (1917), etc. She worked there until 1917 and, thereafter, became a star at Metro, where she was featured in nine films in 1918 and 1919, one of them, Revenge (1918), being directed by Tod Browning. She ended her career with three films at Robertson-Cole in 1920 and 1921.
11. Carol Lynley
Carol Lynley (1942-2019) made her film debut for the Walt Disney studios in Light in the Forest (1958). She quickly became a promising young star, especially thanks to her role as a teenager considering a then-illegal abortion in Blue Jeans (1959). Her films include Return to Peyton Place (1961), The Cardinal (1963), Shock Treatment (1964), Harlow (1965), in which she played the famous sex-symbol of the ’30s, etc. She also worked in Great-Britain for Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), The Shuttered Room (1967), and Danger Route (1967). In the '70s, her career was in decline but she nonetheless had a last good opportunity to shine as a pop singer in the disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure (1972), which was a huge box-office success. That same year, she was also featured in Beware! The Blob, a B horror flick directed by Larry Hagman (yes, the J.R. Ewing of Dallas fame) which later gained a cult following.
12. Eleanore Whitney
Eleanore Whitney (1917-1983) was a Paramount player from 1935 to 1938. Her forte was tap dancing. She starred in the musicals Three Cheers for Love (1936), Turn Off the Moon (1937), Blonde Trouble (1937), and Thrill of a Lifetime (1937). Among her other films are Millions in the Air (1935), Rose Bowl (1936), College Holiday (1936), Campus Confessions (1938), etc. She left the movies after her marriage to a lawyer in February 1939.
13. Felicia Farr
At the beginning of her career, Felicia Farr (1932) especially was featured in Westerns such as Jubal (1956), The First Texan (1956), The Last Wagon (1956), Reprisal! (1956), the classic 3:10 to Yuma (1956) and Hell Bent for Leather (1960). After her marriage to Jack Lemmon in 1962, she appeared in only a handful of films, including Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me Stupid (1964), Kotch (1971), directed by her husband, and Charley Varrick (1973).
14. Patricia Ellis
Patricia Ellis (1916-1970) was a B movie queen at Warner in the ’30s. Her films include Picture Snatcher (1933), The Narrow Corner (1933), Let’s Be Ritzy (1934), The St. Louis Kid (1934), A Night at the Ritz (1935), Freshman Love (1936), Down the Stretch (1936), Melody for Two (1937), etc. She also co-starred with Jack Hulbert in the British film Paradise for Two (1937) and appeared with Laurel and Hardy in Block-Heads (1938). She ended her career at Poverty Row in Fugitive at Large (1939), a Larry Darmour production.
15. Barbara Lawrence
Barbara Lawrence (1928? 1930?-2013) usually played supporting roles from 1945 to 1957. Occasionally, she was given leading parts, such as in the Western Jesse James vs. the Daltons (1954) and the science-fiction film Kronos (1957). She appeared as herself in The Star (1952), in which she is supposed to represent the “new” Hollywood, much to the displeasure of the has-been actress played by Bette Davis.
16. Gloria Swanson
Silent movie superstar Gloria Swanson (1897? 1899?-1983), the lady lacing her shoes at the extreme left of the postcard, worked for Mack Sennett studios in 1916 and 1917. Interestingly enough, her name is not mentioned on this postcard. Either it was published before she became famous or the editing company didn’t recognize her on the photo when they printed the card.
Thanks again, Marlene! It was so much fun.
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