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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.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Monday, November 25, 2019
Happy Thanksgiving
From Thelma Todd and friends!
A couple of Thanksgiving pictures which have Thelma Todd in them and which also happen to be publicity pictures for the movie NAUGHTY BABY.
This one has Thelma Todd and Doris Dawson.
Thelma Todd, Loretta Young, Jack Ford, and Doris Dawson star in a historical reenactment for First National around the time that Thelma Todd and Loretta Young made SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN.
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Saturday, November 23, 2019
GOD GAVE ME TWENTY CENTS
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Two 7 3/8" X 9 5/8" Vintage Original glossy, Double-Weight Linen backed photos with borders of THELMA TODD and cast in the 1926 film, "GOD GAVE ME TWENTY CENTS". This was her second film she was ever in as an actress. In both of the photos, she is in the upper-left corner. She was uncredited in this film. Extremely RARE to ever see photos from the beginning of her film career and uncredited days in film history.
On the back of each photo, handwritten lightly in pencil is "Thelma Todd (L.) 1926". Also handwritten, but in blue ink, is "God Gave Me 20 C."
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Early Photo
An early photo of Thelma Todd taken in front of the same backdrop as the one on the cover of the Andy Edmonds book.
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Early Thelma Todd Pictures
Photo of the students of Paramount's acting school.
Thelma is in the second row on the far left
Buddy Rogers Thelma Todd Fascinating Youth
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Monday, November 11, 2019
Wach SPEAK EASILY
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SPEAK EASILY is a 1932 comedy with Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd.
Speak Easily is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick. The studio also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and What! No Beer? Keaton later used many of the physical gags he created for this film later when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers' A Night At The Opera. A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical. Director: Edward Sedgwick Writers: Clarence Budington Kelland (from the story by), Ralph Spence (dialogue continuity) Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn
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SPEAK EASILY is a 1932 comedy with Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd.
Speak Easily is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick. The studio also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and What! No Beer? Keaton later used many of the physical gags he created for this film later when he wrote (uncredited) gags for the Marx Brothers' A Night At The Opera. A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical. Director: Edward Sedgwick Writers: Clarence Budington Kelland (from the story by), Ralph Spence (dialogue continuity) Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn
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SPEAK EASILY Photos
SPEAK EASILY is a 1932 comedy with Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd.
Buster Keaton and Thelma Todd.
Thelma Todd.
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Saturday, November 9, 2019
Monday, November 4, 2019
POPEYE IN PERSON!!
Ad for Thelma Todd movie proclaims that none other than Popeye hiself will appear in person, in the person of voice actor Billy Costello.
From the Thelma Todd Fan Group on facebook
POPEYE IN PERSON!! In 1934, audiences at Cleveland's Circle Theatre were treated to a personal appearance by none other than Popeye, the Sailor in the form of vaudevillian and voice actor, William "Billy" Costello (1898-1971).
Costello provided the voice for the spinach-swallowing sailor for the first 25 Popeye cartoons produced the Fleischer Studios. Per Wikipedia: "...he was fired by the Fleischers, allegedly over 'bad behavior,' and was replaced with Jack Mercer. Costello's final appearance was in You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935).
Costello provided the voice for the spinach-swallowing sailor for the first 25 Popeye cartoons produced the Fleischer Studios. Per Wikipedia: "...he was fired by the Fleischers, allegedly over 'bad behavior,' and was replaced with Jack Mercer. Costello's final appearance was in You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935).
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