During the early sound era, Hal Roach filmed foreign language versions of a number of his films. Although the casts of the foreign versions were usually different, Thelma Todd was in the Spanish version of one of Harry Langdon's comedies, POBRE INFELIZ. English title was THE SHRIMP.
Here we see the chalkboard with the foreign language dialogue for their next scene.
Another picture taken on the same set with their Spanish language instructor.
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