FredCDobbs

I think we need some more substantial clues.

dang, I musta misspelled Pharo

Years ago, when Groucho was old and sick, a San Francisco TV reporter interviewed him and he asked him an insulting question, as if he was going to die that night. The reporter said: "How would you like to be best remembered." Groucho thought a few seconds and said: "Alive!" In other words, he wanted everyone and all his friends to remember that he is still alive.

scsu, how about doing another one?

When I saw the hat in the photo I thought of William S. Hart. He often wore one back in that early Western era. I think the most common traditional "cowboy hat" came from the Civil War era hats. And the other kind came from the military era around WW I

Some early cowboys wore that type of hat, including William S. Hart and Harry Carey.

Harry Carey Jr. Same dresser..... "Dobe" Carey Actor Harry Carey Sr. with newborn baby Harry Carey Jr. (aka Dobe) at the family home in Saugus where Dobe was born in 1921. Legend Harry Carey and his son Harry Carey, Jr. at 8 days old (September, 1921, Photoplay).

baby resting on large pillow, dresser in backgruond with comb and hand mirror on top, maybe a box of kleenex, lines in lower left are from a circa 1914-18 newspaper as a "frame" around the image, other photos are maybe within the overall image group. This could be the son of an old-time actor.

WWI military hat

I usually had strict rules about where I kept things in my bedroom at night, because of this problem. But, if I happened to be out late at a party, and had too much to drink, and came home tired, I would sometimes just put or throw my coat and hat where ever was easiest. It was dark in the room, but a little street light came in through the window curtains. What was worse was when a car passed by and turned a corner onto the side street, causing the shadow to move across the wall in my bedroom.

Thanks. I've been wearing different kinds of hats since I was a teenager. Not in school, of course, but on the weekend. I was influenced by so many old movies, I developed the habit of wearing different kinds of hats. And when a fedora is on top of a coat hook on a door,, at the top of an overcoat, in very dim light, it does look like a whole person for a few seconds, when I am groggy when I wake up in the middle of the night.

So it doesn't happen to anyone else?? Dang!

If the picture is a painting, it could be a slightly modified version of this photo:

Has anyone here ever awakened from a dream or nightmare and slowly looked around your dark bedroom and suddenly saw the shadow of a big man on your wall or over near the door. You jump and screech maybe, and jump out of bed, only to find out it is just your dark overcoat and hat that you hung in a different place when you came in the night before. There is no "big man in your bedroom", only your out-of-place coat and hat. I hate when that happens!

Yes, and that's what I did for years.... watch it in bits and pieces. No wonder I couldn't figure it out!

I finally watched this film all the way through just last night, and I thought all the stuff about paranoid schizophrenia symptoms was really good. I've heard about these kinds of symptoms on the news a lot, especially when crazy guys shoot a bunch of people and his family says, "He stopped taking his medications." I think Joan's puzzled look on her face, quite often in this film, was a good example of a sick person trying to figure out what the heck was going on. It seems to her that what she was seeing (especially the girl falling down the stairs) was real and was outside her head, but it was not real and it was only inside her head, something like dreaming while awake. I kept trying to figure out which of what I was seeing was real and what wasn't, and the shooting at the end of the film I hoped was just in her imigination.

Go ahead and do another one, if you don't mind.

There are other kinds of women??

Gladys George is another sad case of a beautiful young actress who suddenly turned into an "older lady" when she went into her early 30s. Born in 1900, she went on the stage at an early age then made her first silent film at the age of 19. She made her last silent film in 1921, then her first sound film in 1934. In 1937 she played an "older wife" in Madame X and by the end of the film she had aged into an "old lady" character. In The Roaring Twenties (1937), she was sad because she was too old to be of interest to 38 year old James Cagney, or anyone else. Lifespan as a pretty young film actress.... about 15 years.

The girl looks like Garbo.

GLADYS GEORGE

Norma Shearer

YES !

More than 220 silents.....