Worse case of a mislabeled photo ever!

[Gagman 66]

Take a look at this!

[topchap]

Wow! Look at that. Proof positive that people can be fallible in their identification of photographs. I wonder if the same might hold true with painted portraits also. (Probably just other people, though.)

[Gagman 66]

Isn't that Lupe Velez? About the only connection being that one both are women, each acted in Silent films, and they did appear together with Fairbanks in THE GAUCHO. That's about all I can think of? How wrong can you get it? And this appears to be for some London film society webpage too?

[boblipton]

Don't be silly, Gagman. It's Olive Thomas.

Bob

[Christopher Jacobs]

Doesn't quite look like Olive Thomas to me? Are you sure it's not Olive Borden? Could be Bebe Daniels? Or either Mary Brian or Jean Arthur. Yeah, that's it! Or wait, maybe it's Madge Bellamy.

[Arndt]

I'd hazard a guess at Marie Dressler (on a good day).

[Rollo Treadway]

Your skepticism is understandable.

This image is in fact taken from Mary Pickford's makeup test for her projected comeback feature The Marlene Dietrich Story (1953) to have been directed by Billy Wilder. The project fell through when Mary absolutely refused to learn the German lyrics to "Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuß Auf Liebe Eingestellt" ("Falling In Love Again").

[entredeuxguerres]

The Google Image files for any major personality are loaded with mislabeled photos. Democracy in action. Even a site I admire & respect greatly, Silent Ladies & Gents, once in a great while presents a wild card. But the "Pickford" photo above establishes a new water-mark in idiocy.

[rudyfan]

Your skepticism is understandable.

This image is in fact taken from Mary Pickford's makeup test for her projected comeback feature The Marlene Dietrich Story (1953) to have been directed by Billy Wilder. The project fell through when Mary absolutely refused to learn the German lyrics to "Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuß Auf Liebe Eingestellt" ("Falling In Love Again").

Oh God, I wish we had a LIKE button similar to Facebook, this made me laugh quite a lot. Thank you Rollo Treadway!

[missdupont]

There's even mistakes in Daniel Blum's PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SILENTS, you can't believe everything you see or read.

[silentfilm]

Mary must have had a really good plastic surgeon!

[entredeuxguerres]

Please, God--nothing that smacks of Facebook here!

[Frederica]

Please, God--nothing that smacks of Facebook here!

OK, the rest of us will not display the links to our Facebook pages.

[entredeuxguerres]

OK, the rest of us will not display the links to our Facebook pages.[/quote]

God listened!

[Frederica]

OK, the rest of us will not display the links to our Facebook pages.

God listened!

Does he usually listen to your commands?

[entredeuxguerres]

Mortals may only entreat, not command.

[JohnArmer]

I'm sure it's Polly Moran in that picture.

[Danny Burk]

You're all wrong.....it's Lon Chaney. Master of makeup.

[Mike Gebert]

I'm kind of more impressed that she auditioned for a Nickelodeon-produced movie, decades before Clarissa Explains It All or even Kenan & Kel.

[SFBOB]

It looks like Ann Sothern to me.

[BankofAmericasSweetheart]

I don't know what's sadder, the fact that whoever posted it doesn't even know what Mary Pickford looks like or that nobody on facebook bothered to comment it's the wrong photo after 17 shares or the fact that I'm assuming the London Film and Media Institute is a university of some sort and doesn't know what Mary Pickford looks like.

[entredeuxguerres]

It looks like Ann Sothern to me.

There's considerable resemblance, indeed--but, based on my scrutinizing everything I could lay hands on with Ann in it, it's not that saucy blonde. (Redhead, actually!)

[entredeuxguerres]

I don't know what's sadder, the fact that whoever posted it doesn't even know what Mary Pickford looks like or that nobody on facebook bothered to comment it's the wrong photo after 17 shares or the fact that I'm assuming the London Film and Media Institute is a university of some sort and doesn't know what Mary Pickford looks like.

All passengers on the Ship of Fools.

[precode]

Were I a gambling man, I'd wager it's Rondo Hatton before the plastic surgery.

Mike S.
(proud owner of two Rondos himself)

[Gaucho]

Isn't that Lupe Velez?

We have a winner!

[Lokke Heiss]

The problem of Social Netorks is: So often irony is hard to recognize. I bet this photo was basically an April Fool's joke.

[Rollo Treadway]

The problem of Social Netorks is: So often irony is hard to recognize. I bet this photo was basically an April Fool's joke.

The Academy is real enough, as is the webpage pictured in the OP:

http://www.media-courses.com/blog/canad ... -pickford/

They slightly redeem themselves by having a picture of the real Mary further down the page, but then there's this hilarious summation of her life after quitting acting:

Unfortunately, the arrival of talking movies signalled the end of Mary’s career as she wasn’t able to successfully make the transition. She officially retired in 1933 but continued producing movies with the Marx Brothers.

("Mary Pickford presents the Marx Brothers in Love Happy — 16 years in the making!")

And the punchline:

Mary was certainly loved throughout her career. Many believe that she was the most popular woman in the entire world during the 1910s and 1920s.

Actors are needed at every age – try acting today at London Academy

[Lokke Heiss]

I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts this photo is intentional, and look, it's worked, generating all this discussion about a site that I would never have known about.

And every post gives these guys one more google of free publicity.

[Jim Roots]

I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts this photo is intentional, and look, it's worked, generating all this discussion about a site that I would never have known about.

And every post gives these guys one more google of free publicity.

Are you begrudging them?

Jim

[Ed Watz]

All I know is that Charley Butterworth is actually Louise Fazenda. I know it's true, he admitted it himself.