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    Posted 3 years ago

    DrNessa
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    Hi,

    I recently bought this picture........because it spoke to me.
    Don't know who this handsome guy is, though.
    Does anyone know? Is he an actor? A famous singer?
    Thanks for looking,

    Nessa

    Mystery Solved
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    1. dav2no1 dav2no1, 3 years ago
      There's some writing on the right side shoulder...what does it say?

      At first I thought it was walt Disney, but his hair doesn't look right..
    2. Golgatha Golgatha, 3 years ago
      Erroll Flynn or Clark Gable on a bad day ? ...
    3. kwqd kwqd, 3 years ago
      Can't make out the writing even after doing some image manipulation. It might help if you took a close up of just the writing. You can add up to four images in your post.
    4. keramikos, 3 years ago
      DrNessa, I concur with kwqd; please add a close up of the handwriting.

      He does look familiar, like perhaps some British actor from the 1930s/1940s, but I just can't quite place him. It's definitely not Errol Flynn or Clark Gable.

    5. DrNessa DrNessa, 3 years ago
      Just added some close-ups of the (very faded) ink handwriting.......can't make it out........can you?
    6. keramikos, 3 years ago
      DrNessa, It looks to me like it's wishing somebody named "Helen," good luck and success.

      The surname of the writer looks like "Lowe." I can't make out the first. :-(
    7. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Yay!:

      https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edmund-lowe/index.html
    8. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Here's his autograph:

      https://www.regisautographs.com/product/edmund-lowe/
    9. keramikos, 3 years ago
      I probably should have recognized him, as I've seen "Dinner At Eight" many times, but with competition like Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Billie Burke, Marie Dressler, and Jean Harlow, Edmund Lowe didn't stand much chance of getting my attention:

      Jean Harlow Marie Dressler Dinner at Eight

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxBnYsjdKM
    10. keramikos, 3 years ago
      DrNessa, This is about as close as I've been able to find to the pose in your picture:

      https://www.cinefania.com/pics/personas/2/2666.jpg

      https://www.cinefania.com/persona.php/Edmund+Lowe/en

      However, there's no serious doubt in my mind that it's the same person. Mystery Solved?
    11. DrNessa DrNessa, 3 years ago
      Yes, mystery solved!! Thanks so much for all of your research and info!!!!

      Nessa
    12. keramikos, 3 years ago
      DrNessa, You're welcome. :-)

      Thanks for marking it "Mystery Solved."

      Your addition of close-up pictures of the inscription really did help, because once I could read the surname "Lowe," things fell into place pretty rapidly.

      It's interesting to me to note the billing order on this promotional poster for "Dinner At Eight":

      https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/comedy/dinner-at-eight-mgm-1933-one-sheet-27-x-41-style-c/a/667-28692.s

      Edmund Lowe edged out Billie Burke.

      Modern movie enthusiasts are probably more familiar with Burke, perhaps by virtue of her having been immortalized as the Glinda the Good Witch of the North in 1939's "The Wizard of Oz," but to audiences in 1933, Lowe might well have been the bigger draw.

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