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Thelma Todd

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films such as Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily. She also had roles in Wheeler and Woolsey farces, several Laurel and Hardy films, the last of which (The Bohemian Girl) featured her in a part that was truncated by her suspicious death at the age of 29. During the silent film era, Todd appeared in numerous supporting roles that made full use of her beauty but gave her little chance to act. With the advent of the talkies, Todd was given opportunity to expand her roles when producer Hal Roach signed her to appear with such comedy stars as Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy. In 1931, Roach cast Todd in her own series of slapstick comedy shorts, running 17 to 27 minutes each. In an attempt to create a female version of Laurel and Hardy, Roach teamed Todd with ZaSu Pitts for 17 shorts, from "Let's do Things" (June 1931) through "One Track Minds" (May 1933). When Pitts left in 1933, she was replaced by Patsy Kelly, appearing with Todd in 21 shorts, from "Beauty and the Bus" (September 1933) through "An All American Toothache" (January 1936). These Roach shorts often cast Todd as a working girl having all sorts of problems, and trying her best to remain poised and charming despite the embarrassing antics of her sidekick. Todd also appeared successfully in such dramas as the original 1931 film version of The Maltese Falcon starring Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, in which she played Miles Archer's treacherous widow. During her career she appeared in 119 films although many of these were short films, and was sometimes publicized as "The Ice Cream Blonde." Todd continued her short-subject series through 1935, and was featured in the full-length Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl. This was her last film; she died after completing all of her scenes, but most of them were re-shot. Producer Roach deleted all of Todd's dialogue and limited her appearance to one musical number. Born : 29th-Jul-1906

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Seven Footprints to Satan

A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Released : 27th-Jan-1929

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The Maltese Falcon

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Released : 23rd-May-1931

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Monkey Business

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Released : 19th-Sep-1931

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Horse Feathers

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
Released : 19th-Aug-1932

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Speak Easily

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
Released : 13th-Aug-1932

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Yesterday and Today

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
Released : 2nd-Dec-1953

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God Gave Me Twenty Cents

The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.
Released : 20th-Nov-1926

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On the Loose

Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Released : 26th-Dec-1931

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Another Fine Mess

Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
Released : 29th-Nov-1930

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Chickens Come Home

Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
Released : 21st-Feb-1931

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Unaccustomed as We Are

Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
Released : 4th-May-1929

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The Bohemian Girl

Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
Released : 14th-Feb-1936

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This Is the Night

When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
Released : 8th-Apr-1932

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Air Hostess

A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
Released : 15th-Jan-1933

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Corsair

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
Released : 28th-Nov-1931

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Counsellor at Law

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Released : 25th-Dec-1933

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The Devil's Brother

Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
Released : 5th-May-1933

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Call Her Savage

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Released : 24th-Nov-1932

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Cockeyed Cavaliers

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Released : 29th-Jun-1934

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Nevada

A once notorious gunfighter takes a respectable job on a ranch. "Nevada" is charged with protecting the ranch owner's pretty daughter, arousing the enmity of ranch foreman Clan Dillon, who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman leaks a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again.
Released : 1st-Aug-1927

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Hips, Hips, Hooray!

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
Released : 2nd-Feb-1934

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Her Man

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
Released : 21st-Sep-1930

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Klondike

Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had...
Released : 29th-Aug-1932

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Whispering Whoopee

Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
Released : 8th-Mar-1930

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Sitting Pretty

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1933

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Lightning Strikes Twice

An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
Released : 7th-Dec-1934

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Mary Stevens, M.D.

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Released : 22nd-Jul-1933

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The Poor Rich

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
Released : 25th-Feb-1934

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Broadminded

Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
Released : 1st-Aug-1931

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The Hot Heiress

Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
Released : 28th-Mar-1931

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Son of a Sailor

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Released : 29th-Nov-1933

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Two for Tonight

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Released : 12th-Sep-1935

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Rough Seas

On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Released : 24th-Apr-1931

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The Big Timer

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
Released : 10th-Mar-1932

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Released : 1st-Jan-1942

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High C's

The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
Released : 27th-Dec-1930

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No Limit

Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.
Released : 15th-Jan-1931

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Maid in Hollywood

Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
Released : 19th-May-1934

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The Bargain of the Century

Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
Released : 8th-Apr-1933

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Top Flat

When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
Released : 21st-Dec-1935

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Show Business

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
Released : 20th-Aug-1932

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Sealskins

In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
Released : 6th-Feb-1932

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Asleep in the Feet

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Released : 21st-Jan-1933

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The Pip from Pittsburg

Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
Released : 21st-Mar-1931

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The Tin Man

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.
Released : 30th-Mar-1935

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Follow Thru

Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
Released : 26th-Sep-1930

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Catch-As Catch-Can

Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Released : 22nd-Aug-1931

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Red Noses

Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Released : 18th-Mar-1932

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Sing Sister Sing

At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
Released : 2nd-Mar-1935

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Soup and Fish

At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?
Released : 30th-Mar-1934

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The Real McCoy

Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
Released : 1st-Feb-1930

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Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime

Self (archive footage) - Hosts Ryan & Shane discuss mysteries surrounding notorious unsolved crimes.
Released : 4th-Feb-2016

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