Can you ID this actress?

[Gumlegs]

I won't be impressed until someone comes up with an undoctored photo that proves Blanche Payson was once a great hottie.

Jim

You're going to spend the rest of your life being unimpressed.

[Gumlegs]

The young Eugenie Besserer:

[sepiatone]

And here's a lady I much admire, also on the stage but about a decade later, who preserved her looks a little more successfully:

could this be Cathleen Nesbitt?

[entredeuxguerres]

could this be Cathleen Nesbitt?

Well, I suppose it could be, since half of the photos pulled up on any Google Images search are preposterous errors, but it was one of the "likely ones" that my search returned.

[Wm. Charles Morrow]

Looks to me like Daisy Dumont, although it isn't the photo I mentioned earlier.

[sepiatone]

if everyones' through guessing, I'll go ahead and reveal the young woman in my original post.


Flora Robson

[entredeuxguerres]

if everyones' through guessing, I'll go ahead and reveal the young woman in my original post.


Flora Robson

Hard to see the resemblance, but I'll take your word for it.

Now, show me what Helen Ware looked like at the same age; just watched a picture in which she played a leading role, and I've always suspected she, too, was once a hot property.

[Ray Faiola]

Yeah, looks like Margaret D. to me.

[westegg]

Doesn't look like Robson to me, but I guess I'll go with it until proven otherwise.

Reminds me of Facebook where some jawdropping mis-IDS are blithely posted until a storm of protests correct the situation.