From Thelma Todd!
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A Blog For Thelma Todd Thelma Todd was a star of silent movies and later the talkies. She is remembered as much today for her mysterious death as she is for her films. In this blog, we take a look at Thelma Todd, her movies, and various commentaries.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Friday, December 29, 2017
Thelma Swimsuit Photos
Candid photo of Thelma Todd in a bathing suit, taken in the 1930's.
Another picture, which I believe may have been taken during the making of CORSAIR in 1931.
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Thursday, December 28, 2017
Thelma Todd And Ruth Etting in HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY
Thelma Todd and Ruth Etting in a publicity photo for HIPS, HIPS HOORAY. The two only appear together briefly in the film.
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HIPS, HIPS HOORAY Photo
Wheeler and Woolsey with Dorothy Lee and Thelma Todd in a publicity photo for HIPS, HIPS HOORAY.
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Watch HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY
HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY was a 1934 RKO production starring Wheeler and Woolsey, with Dorothy Lee and Thelma Todd.
HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025254/
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Merry Christmas
Thelma Todd was from Lawrence. Here is a 1921 Christmas postcard from Lawrence.
From the "Lawrence, Lawrence" page on facebook:
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Merry Christmas
Here are three of the "Four Jills In A Jeep" - Mitzi Mayfair, Carole Landis, and Martha Raye - around their Christmas tree during a tour overseas during World War II.
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Christmas Carole
From "Carole Landis Fans" on facebook:
December 23, 1941 Carole prepares a Christmas basket for a Chicago movie theater. Theaters in Chicago to provide baskets for the needy for Christmas.
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Monday, December 25, 2017
Merry Christmas
From Eve Arden!
Doc West is on the left, my little brother used to know him when he was in the Marines.
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Sunday, December 24, 2017
Topper's Christmas Carol
Topper's Christmas Carol. Robert Sterling gives 'em the Dickens as Christmas Present. Your Christmas Present also features the sublime Anne Jeffreys, "Buck" as Neil, Kathleen Freeman as Katy the Cook, Lee Patrick as Henrietta and Leo G. Carroll as Cosmo Topper.
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Merry Christmas
From Thelma Todd!
Thelma Todd, Doris Dawson, and Jack Mulhall.
They were all in NAUGHTY BABY and there were also Thanksgiving pictures of them.
An autographed picture sent out by the Hal Roach studio in the thirties.
Roach made the "Our Gang" comedies. The idea here is that Thelma Todd is supposed to be a little girl going off to school with a blackboard on which her name ( "Mary Christmas" ) is written, as well as some schoolbooks and her lunch. They didn't specify that she was one of the Our Gang kids, but you could consider it to be related to the series.
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Merry Christmas
From Marion Byron and Laurel and Hardy!
And if anyone every tells you that Laurel and Hardy's characters didn't fight over girls, you'll know better!
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Saturday, December 23, 2017
TOYLAND PREMIERE
TOYLAND PREMIERE was a 1934 Oswald the Rabbit cartoon involving Christmas and Santa Claus, and featuring caricatures of a number of movie stars, including Laurel and Hardy, Shirley Temple, Al Jolson, Boris Karloff ( Frankenstien ), Johnny Weissmuller and ( I believe ) Lupe Velez. Lupe Velez swings off with Johnny Weissmuller at one point, something that I recall being done in another cartoon ( I think it was COO COO NUT GROVE ).
1934-12-10 Toyland Premiere (Cartune Classic) from Wannes on Vimeo.
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Merry Christmas
This is something they did in the Clara Bow Group on facebook. And I'm a little late posting this, there are only two days left till Christmas now.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
BROKEN TOYS (Silly Symphonies )
Disney artwork showing the characters from the cartoon. The Zasu Pitts character can be seen in the "dump" scene at top, evidently in a wooden tub. In the middle of the page she is shown receiving a sawdust transplant and at the bottom she is part of a procession of toys to the orphanage.
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BROKEN TOYS ( Silly Symphony )
Several movie stars are caricatured as toys in this 1935 cartoon, including Ned Sparks, W.C. Fields, and Zasu Pitts. Again we have an association of Zasu Pitts with Mae West as the Zasu Pitts character does a Mae West impersonation after receiving a sawdust transplant. The cartoonists liked to caricature Mae West and Zasu Pitts and it was a recurring thing that they were shown together. I have sometimes wondered if this was related to the teaming of Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts by Hal Roach.
BROKEN TOYS:
http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/disneys-broken-toys-1935/#prettyphoto[22907]/0/
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THE SHANTY WHERE SANTA CLAUS LIVES
Christmas cartoon with caricatures of personalities of the past, including Kate Smith.
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Merry Christmas
From
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Myrna Loy
Muriel Evans
Buster Keaton
Iris Adrian
Marie Wilson
Bette Davis
Bela Lugosi
Boris Karloff
Bob Hope
Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
Rosemary and Priscilla Lane
Arlene Dahl
Debbie Reynolds
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