45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved

It’s a moment etched in horror movie history.

In Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror cult classic The Shining, the camera zooms in toward a black-and-white photograph hanging in the hallway of the Overlook Hotel. It’s dated July 4, 1921. Dead centre stands Jack Torrance — played by Jack Nicholson — smiling in a crowd of partygoers.  

But the photo wasn’t taken on set with extras. It was a real photo from the 1920s, and Nicholson’s face had been superimposed over someone. But whose face was it? 

Now, after 45 years of theories and speculation, the mysterious man’s identity and context…