Mystery Photo

I have received many e-mails from several parts of the world with suggestions re the identity of the man pictured with Bogie & Bacall, but only one person felt he had the right answer. Dario Vidojkovic, a Law student at Regensburg University in Germany, said it was Delmer Daves who directed B&B in Dark Passage, and this photo could have been taken on the set of that movie. For two months I searched libraries, book stores, the Internet, but Delmer Daves must have been very camera shy; I found many articles about his work, but never a photo. He donated his life's work, 1930 to 1965, to Stanford University. It's in 74 boxes, and would take forever to search through them all for a photo. So, while visiting the LA area I contacted UCLA, and was directed to the Dickson Library. With the assistance of Lisa Kernan, Arts Librarian for Film, Television & Theater, we found a book which contained a photograph of Delmer Daves from later in his life, and it was clearly an older version of the man in my web site photo. Thank you Dario for solving the puzzle.