If we hear back from either Carol or Marlo I’m guessing they won’t remember, it was a long time ago.
Take everything you see on Wikipedia and IMDb about those shows with a huge lump of salt. First of all, the Wikipedia claims are totally unsourced and I don’t know where IMdb claims to get its information.
For November 13, 1970, IMDb lists the Carpenters as the only guests. Wikipedia lists Carol Wayne and Gig Young as the only guests. We have proof that the guests that night included AT LEAST Musician Eydie Gorme, actress Carol Wayne, actor Peter Lawford, actor Mickey Rooney, actress Rose Marie, and The Carpenters. (There could have been more.)
Oh, I do. That’s why I looked every place I could. I looked at tv.com as well, and a lot of other sites. I would never source Wiki for anything important, but how many resources are there for a question like this? I didn’t go to Wiki, anyway, I just entered a lot of search terms in Google, and Wiki would come up.
Some of the Photoplay issues (for around the right time period) I saw for sale had pictures of the inside covers which listed the names of editors for the magazine.
On the chance MM might be one of them I tried to find photos of them but had no luck.
I also tried searching “male actors of the 70’s” and found lots of pics but none that were very close to a match. There was a Steve McQueen pic that was kinda close.
So far, the best luck I’ve had seaching for old issues is to use the title “Photoplay with TV Mirror Magazine…”
I’m running out of ideas, if anyone has something new, do tell.
I searched Emmy winners and nominees, and no luck. There was a Burt Bacharach special (gawd help the 70s) that won one, but people have nixed it being Burt Bacharach. So far, he looks the closest, although I’ll admit he’s not a perfect match, just similar looking.
ETA: I came upon the Primetime Emmys by searching for all the names of the known people together, and looked to see if they appeared in a cluster some place with other names, and the Primetime Emmys for 1970 was the first hit (after this thread).
Don’t put Wikipedia down so fast. Which is more likely? Someone deliberately putting in incorrect information or someone knowing the actual facts correcting the incorrect info? How many times have you seen in a book supposedly containing facts a typo or other misinformation? You can’t correct a book (you can correct your own copy, but that’s it). How many people use that book in their research and spread the misinformation around in other books of facts? However, anyone with actual knowledge of facts can correct the info immediately on Wikipedia no matter how many times someone deliberately or unintentionally distributes false information.
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Originally Posted by Koxinga
Going only by the pictures I would have sworn that was Martin Landau.
Having been a fan of both Mission: Impossible (before the pic) and Space: 1999 (after the pic) I can say with 99.9982 % assurance it is NOT Martin Landau.
Sorry, it was unclear to what you were referring to.
Dumb question, but has anybody run the photo through Google Image Search or TinEye?
Just a wild thought here: Has anyone bothered to find out who the publisher of Photoplay was in 1970? :dubious:
This is a reversed image so the hair part is actually on his left side.
Running the face alone, not helpful at all. Running the whole photo found that the oldest posting that I could get a link to identifies MM as Ted Bessell, but it was posted two years ago at a TV fan site, and I don’t know if the poster had good information, or was just guessing. Everyone here thinks it isn’t Bessell.
Other links reveal that people have been trying to figure out who MM is for the last six months, with no success.
I would bet good money on it being Richman… but Sid Caesar? How in the heck could anyone think he could be him?
That would be a bad bet considering he’s already told us himself that it’s not him.
DAMN… well then my vote goes to a selfie of Naadir Tharpe minus the high school nurse.
Seriously though that guess is as good as Sid Caesar, David Soul or Dick Cavett! It’s Ted Bundy before it is any of those guys.
When I first glanced at the photo, I hadn’t read the OP carefully and I was looking at the guy in the light-colored suit. My first thought, “So who’s that sitting next to Sid Caesar?”
I just wanted to throw that out there in case it turns out to be right. 
Note that references to “1970 Photoplay Awards” (and variants) don’t imply any ceremony having taken place. It is possible that whatever entity owned the “Photoplay” name at that point did declare that particular movies, television shows, or actors had “won” for 1970. But it does not follow that a ceremony of any kind took place.
Evidence for a ceremony seems quite sparse, so far. Most references to 1970 “awards” mention only “awards” and not a time or place in which such awards were publicly handed out.
If these times/dates are to be relied upon–a June 1970 revelation of the 1969-award-winners–then why would people have been dressed up and appearing on the Tonight show in November?
Are these possibly nominees for 1971?
Anything’s possible; but to me the psychology doesn’t fit. When have we seen nominees dress up in formal attire and go as a group to appear on national television?..wouldn’t that look sort of…desperate? Particularly since these are pretty far from being the most prestigious awards in show business…
Surely they’d be exposing themselves to ridicule.
I bet their agents were thinking of it more as exposing themselves for Exposure. That’s when the common celebrity really got started. It’s not like, Marlene Dietrich, Katherine Hepburn, Marlo Thomas. They were all punching it out for next TV role.
It’s Grace Zabriskie.