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Who IS this mystery actress with FDR?
Permlink Replies: 23 - Pages: 2 [ Previous | 1 2 ] - Original Post: Apr 14, 2012 6:07 PM Original Post By: lombard33

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Re: Who IS this mystery actress with FDR?
Posted: Apr 15, 2012 7:01 PM   in response to: lombard33 in response to: lombard33
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Take your pix:

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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 6:18 PM   in response to: slaytonf in response to: slaytonf
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It doesn't look like Dietrich to me. Maybe she isn't an actress.
Those eyes (or eye; we can only see one) can't belong to anyone else: it is Dietrich, who was a fervent anti-Nazi, worked tirelessly selling U.S. war bonds and entertaining our troops in foreign theaters of war.

It makes perfect sense that she'd have met FDR at some point and that the meeting would have been documented on film.


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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 3:30 PM   in response to: lombard33 in response to: lombard33
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After reading your post, I did a lot of internet research on this, but I never could get any solid confirmation one way or another.

See this source:
http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/73489.html
"One account of the event said an audience of 20 sat expectantly on wobbly, gilt wooden chairs before a desk drilled with holes for the wires of seven microphones. On the desk were two sharpened pencils, a blank notepad, two glasses of water and an opened pack of Camels. Among the invited guests were matinee idol Clark Gable with his wife, blonde Carole Lombard. She wore a "simple black afternoon dress" and a funnel-shaped black hat and veil."

Fred Note: The spots on the lady's face are caused by a veil on the hat.

See this:
http://www.carolelombard.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=5&pos=171
This is supposed to be a photo taken in Baltimore the next day, Dec. 30, 1940. It looks like she might be wearing a similar hat, with a veil. Also, a similar dress and black gloves. Click on the photo for a larger view.

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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 2:29 PM   in response to: lombard33 in response to: lombard33
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Hard to tell. But Sonja Heine did make movies. Per IMDB she was 5' 3" tall.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0377012/

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Re: Who IS this mystery actress with FDR?
Posted: Apr 15, 2012 12:22 PM   in response to: slaytonf in response to: slaytonf
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Was Henie that tall? This lady appears to be about 5'6" or taller, judging by her relative height to the seated FDR and to the other two standing gentlemen. Even wearing Mae West's platform shoes, Lombard couldn't have reached that height!

Grace Moore came to mind because she was an FDR favorite, she sang for him at Birthday Ball celebrations, and her coloring and profile look very much like this lady in the photo.

The puzzling thing is that I KNOW that I have seen this photo elsewhere -- either online or in a book -- and the actress was identified both by name and by profession. But for the life of me, I cannot recall where, and of course cannot find it now.

Here is Grace Moore:

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Good call:

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Posted: Apr 14, 2012 9:10 PM   in response to: lombard33 in response to: lombard33
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It looks quite a bit like Sonja Henie to me, going by the eyebrows, nose and curled hair.

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Posted: Apr 14, 2012 7:18 PM   in response to: lombard33 in response to: lombard33
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It doesn't look like Dietrich to me. Maybe she isn't an actress.

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Who IS this mystery actress with FDR?
Posted: Apr 14, 2012 6:07 PM
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Frankly, I'm stumped. This blonde lady with the tight little sausage curls has been identified as Carole Lombard, but I'm 99% certain it is not her. The lady is much too tall, for one thing. Next, Lombard NEVER wore that hairstyle, even when it was the height of fashion. This lady's nose appears much too large for it to be CL.

I keep seeing Dietrich or Grace Moore, but am thoroughly puzzled at this point --

Class? Anyone? Bueller?

Thanks, in advance, for your help --

Carole Sampeck
The Carole Lombard Archive

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