Saturday, August 31, 2019

Not Anita Garvin?





Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties on facebook says this is Marie Prevost.





A couple of people on facebook have since said it is Anita Garvin. ,



Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties also had this version.




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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Muriel Evans




Muriel Evans, Songwriters Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown, c.1934





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Betty Mack And Charley Chase Ad

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Betty Mack with Charley Chase. She was one of the girls who replaced Thelma Todd in his series.  .







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Monday, August 26, 2019

Blondes with Harry Langdon in SATURDAY AFTERNOON





Before Jean Harlow, blondes were already seen as being linked to loose morals.

Blondes with Harry Langdon in SATURDAY AFTERNOON




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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Harry Langdon To Wed





Harry Langdon was married several times. This is about his second wife, Helen Walton. Langdon was working for Hal Roach at the time, so both the studio and the Our Gang kids are mentioned.

From the Hal Roach Studio page on facebook.

HOLLYWOOD FILMOGRAPH July 1929






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Harry Langdon





Harry, his 3rd wife Mabel and his only child, Harry Langdon Jr.






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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Harry Langdon's Car Act






From Harry Langdon, Jr. on facebook:

My father ceated his own version made of wood. It was part of his extremely successful Vaudeville act called ' Johnny's New Car ' or ' On the Boulevard '. 1910. This was before he was in films.







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Monday, August 19, 2019

Harry Langdon Item





"The Fighting Parson" was one of the films Harry Langdon made for Hal Roach.

Exhibitors Herald World - November 30, 1929




The Fighting Parson:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020883/


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Friday, August 16, 2019

Foreign Language Version







After sound came in, alternate versions of some of the movies were made in different languages for the foreign market.


Harry Langdon and Thelma Todd in front of a blackboard on which their dialogue has been written.







 












Harry Langdon and Fred Karno With Thelma Todd

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Harry Langdon ( middle ) with Fred Karno and Thelma Todd during the producion of THE FIGHTING PARSON (1929s ) at the Hal Roach studio. Karno and Langdon were both athe studio athis time, but both ended up leaving.







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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Harry Langdon Talkies To Be Released On DVD

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This fall Harry Langdon's talkies for Hal Roach are going to be released on DVD this fall.  Thelma Todd ( above, left ) is featured in several of the comedies.



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Monday, August 12, 2019

Thelma Todd Photo





Thelma Todd with Chester Morris on her right, and husband, Pat DiCicco (1930s).







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Saturday, August 10, 2019

THE BACHELOR GIRL






THE BACHELOR GIRL was a 1929 Columbia picture.











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Bathing Beauty Thelma Todd

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Thelma Todd as a bathing beauty.



Thelma Todd ( center ) with Sally Blane and Doris Hill in an early publicity photo at Paramount.



Thelma Todd at the seashore with an umbrella. This seems to be another picture that was taken before they bobbed her hair







A candid shot of Thelma Todd in a bathing suit in the 1930's.




Minna Gombell and Thelma Todd on the beach.




Thelma Todd and William Collier Jr. in THE BACHELOR GIRL.






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Thelma Todd And Groucho Marx Greeting Card

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Greeting Card feauring Thelma Todd And Groucho Marx in a scene from "Horse Feathers".
















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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Thelma Todd's Bed






Cartoon feature depicting Thelma Todd's bed.


From the Thelma Todd Fans Group on facebook.





Thelma Todd's bed can be seen as similar to the one Lupe Velez had, which was also unusually large. Here is a photo of Lupe Velez in bed.






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Thursday, August 1, 2019

SHIELD OF HONOR Publicity

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SHIELD OF HONOR was a 1927 Universal picture. It was a police story starring Neil Hamilton and Dorothy Gulliver, with Thelma Todd playing one of he bad guys.















SHIELD OF HONOR:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018388/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield_of_Honor

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Thelma Todd Photo






This looks like an old one to me.






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