Friday, August 23, 2019

Mystery actor


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The boy on the right — who knows? But the woman on the left — do you recognize her? I knew her voice right away, but couldn’t match it to a person. Which makes me think that someone else will figure this one out in no time at all. Leave your best guess in the comments, and the glory may be yours.

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11:48 a.m.: The answer is now in the comments.

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[Garner’s Modern English Usage notes that “support for actress seems to be eroding.” I’ll use actor.]

6 comments:

  1. Perhaps a young Barbara Billingsley?

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  2. Good call. It’s Barbara BIllingsley in The Tall Target (dir. Anthony Mann, 1951). The boy, by the way, is Brad Morrow.

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  3. IT was a bit of a shot in the dark for me, based as much on your identification of a distinctive voice it was on her face.

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  4. For the splittest of split seconds I thought Lucille Ball was speaking.

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