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Guess the Famous Person #658065
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TIS had a good idea to open a game for guessing the name of a famous person from an old photo.

I'll start with this bodybuilder. Anyone recognize him?







Uploading a Picture to the BB

1) Find a picture on the internet.
2) Right-click on it, and Save to your desktop (so it's easy to find)
3) Go to http://www.tinypic.com/ and hit Choose File (choose the one you just saved to your desktop)
4) You should then be presented with links, choose the "Forum" link
5) Copy/Paste that link into your post.

You can test the process out first in the The Official "Test" Thread in the Help Forum to be sure you did it correctly

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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: SC] #658067
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Wow, good pic SC. smile However, I'm not knowledgeable on body builders. Hmmmm. Wasn't there one named Atlas? confused

Looks like a very old picture. Maybe from the 20s?





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OK, two "hints" to start. The picture was ca. 1950. He'd go on to great fame but not as a bodybuilder.


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Tony Curtis?


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: Mignon] #658070
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Originally Posted By: Mignon
Tony Curtis?


That's a good guess, but wrong. From the same time era, though.


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: SC] #658071
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I didn't think I knew any body builders but then off the top of my head I remembered Arnold (but I KNOW it's not him) and I think Lou Ferrigno (Incredible Hulk). But I think they'd both be too young for that picture in 1950.

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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: The Italian Stallionette] #658072
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Right; I know Ferrigno was born the same year as me (1951, also from Brooklyn) and Arnie was sometime in the mid '40s (I think).

Look at the face.... it hasn't changed all that much.


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: SC] #658076
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Originally Posted By: SC
Originally Posted By: Mignon
Tony Curtis?


That's a good guess, but wrong. From the same time era, though.


Thanks SC but I thought I had that one.


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: Mignon] #658077
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Hmmm I am stumped. confused Not Johnny Weismuller? He was an olympic swimmer I think, not a body builder. Again, the face does look kind of familiar.

Would it be cheating for you to post another picture of the same guy? grin


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: The Italian Stallionette] #658080
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Is this man still alive?


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: The Italian Stallionette] #658082
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Originally Posted By: The Italian Stallionette
Would it be cheating for you to post another picture of the same guy?


Yeah. grin

Hint: he bonded with a lot of fans in some of his roles. Also, do some math.... this picture was taken about 1950. He looks to be about 20 years old there, so that would make him about 80 years old now. He's still alive.


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: SC] #658090
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For now I'm stumped. But tomorrow's another day.


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: Mignon] #658164
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And here he is today:



Yep - it's Sir Sean Connery.

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"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

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What??


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: Signor Vitelli] #658173
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Originally Posted By: Signor Vitelli
And here he is today:



Yep - it's Sir Sean Connery.

Signor V.


Are you freekin' kidding me??? uhwhat lol No!!!! I never thought of Connery as a body builder. confused Ok, I have to honestly say he would not have even entered my mind.

SV, I had a feeling you or TB would come up with the answer. wink


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Oh, and SC, "He BONDED with some of his fans?" Great clue. Too bad I didn't get it. lol I was thinking tho, "how would he bond with his fans in a movie?" Hmmmmm Ha ha ha

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The BONDED went over my head. LOL


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: Mignon] #658666
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Who is the woman?



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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: Mignon] #658708
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Whoopie Goldberg? smile

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I have no idea of either of those pictured. confused


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The guy kind of looks familiar but I can't say I know either of them. confused



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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: The Italian Stallionette] #658785
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Took me a moment or two, but I recognized it because of the man.

It's a photo from the 1958 play Ulysses in Nighttown, based on a part of the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The man is Zero Mostel, and the woman is Bea Arthur (from TV's Maude and Golden Girls).

Incidentally, six years later in 1964, Mostel created the role of "Tevye" on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof, and Bea Arthur was the original "Yente the Matchmaker."

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"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."


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SV got it.

This is fun someone please post a pic.


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Originally Posted By: Mignon
This is fun someone please post a pic.






Photo taken ABOUT 1915.


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: SC] #658804
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Fred MacMurray (played the Dad on My Three Sons)


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Re: Guess the Famous Person [Re: SC] #658805
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Got this one immediately - but I'm not going to spoil it for the rest of you.

Odd thing: he would have been about 15 in the photo, and yet he's smoking a pipe?? uhwhat He certainly wasn't known for smoking a pipe.

I'm not going to say anything more. shhh

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"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."


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Originally Posted By: Mignon
Fred MacMurray (played the Dad on My Three Sons)


I don't think that's who it is, Mig - MacMurray was born in 1908 and would have only been around seven years old in 1915. This "kid" looks a bit older.

Signor V.


"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."


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I'm only guessing about the date of the picture (but I'm fairly sure I'm within a few years).

One hint: you've seen him around these boards a lot.


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Originally Posted By: SC

Photo taken ABOUT 1915.


I'm pretty bad at stuff like this ["Aww, that baby looks just like his mother" / "No, it looks just like a baby" lol], but he almost looks like a young version of your avatar... (my first impression was FDR, but I don't think so)

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Just noticed this hint...
Originally Posted By: SC
One hint: you've seen him around these boards a lot.

Over 20,000 times? wink

If so... my turn:


lol wink

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I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! tongue lol

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Originally Posted By: J Geoff
but he almost looks like a young version of your avatar...


I agree w/Geoff a young Bogey.


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