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.
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Monday, December 3, 2018
Darla Hood's Dollhouse
Posted by Matthew Lydick in The Hal Roach Studio group on facebook:
With December beginning and the holidays approaching, I figured it would be a good time for a story. As Darla Hood told Richard Bann and Leonard Maltin, "At Christmas time, Mr. Roach would ask each kid individually what he wanted as a gift. It was an annual Our Gang tradition, and you could have anything you wanted. Mr. Roach would find it or build it. One year I asked for a dollhouse. So the prop department constructed a ten-by-twelve-foot playhouse that they moved into my back yard with a moving truck. It was completely decorated and furnished with my-sized furniture that I could arrange and rearrange. We made it into a neighborhood clubhouse and used to sleep out overnight. It was fantastic." Image credit: Great Classics.
Darla Hood:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393454/
Our Gang Comedies:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058907964/
Hal Roach:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730018/
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Thursday, December 28, 2017
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 23, 2015
Merry Christmas
From Barbara Nichols ( in the 1957 Issue of GALA ).
She was the cover girl that issue.
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Monday, December 21, 2015
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Merry Christmas
From-
Clara Bow
Louise Fazenda
Una Merkel
Patricia Ellis
1937: “DOROTHEA KENT – petite, blonde package wrapped in cellophane. This charming young actress from the Universal lot is all smiles these days—and no wonder—she made a hit in ‘As Good as Married’ and she’s being groomed for the feminine lead in a new picture called ‘Carnival Queen.’ ”
1947 caption: “ ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS... The only creature stirring is Leslie Brooks, who can’t seem to resist a preview look at the packages while no one else is looking. A Columbia star, Leslie shares stellar honors with Jimmy Lloyd in ‘Cigarette Girl.’ ”
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Vernon Dent Plays Santa Claus On I LOVE LUCY
Vernon Dent appeared as Santa Claus with Lucille Ball on television in the 1950's.
From the Three Stooges fans on facebook.
This lost piece of I Love Lucy originally aired at the end of the episode titled: DRAFTED, from 1951. It was the inspiration for the ending of another Lucy Christmas episode 5 years later.
CBS ran this as an episode tag in 1951, 1952 and 1953. When I LOVE LUCY did its only full Christmas-theme episode in 1956, this bit was redone, with a different actor replacing the retired Vernon Dent.
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Monday, December 22, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Mary Xmas
Here is a good copy of this Christmas picture of Thelma Todd.
Thelma Todd appears to be dressed as a little girl with a doll, ready for school with books, an apple for the teacher, and a tin lunchbox similar to this one.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Bob Hope Christmas With The Troops
Bob Hope entertained the troops for many years, starting in the second World War and continuing on through a number of other wars. My little brother saw him when he was in the army.
Here we have a segment about Bob Hope's entertaining the troops that is related to Christmas.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
Merry Christmas
From:
Rita Hayworth
Marie McDonald
Bettie Page
Jayne Mansfield
Ann Sheridan
Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Ann Sheridan
Priscilla Lane
Sister Rosemary and Priscilla Lane
Phyllis Coates
Yvonne Craig
And Cindy Morgan,
who was 4 years old when this picture was taken.
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
From
From
Thelma Todd
Thelma Todd, Doris Dawson and Jack Mulhall
Alice White
Louise Brooks
Joan Crawford
From the silent era
Jean Harlow
Iris Adrian
Around the time she worked with Laurel and Hardy.
Ida Lupino
Paulette Goddard
Christmas Carole
Carole Lombard
With Christmas stockings.
Christmas Carole
Carole Landis with a Christmas basket.
Marilyn Monroe
And her Christmas stocking
And here's her other Christmas stocking.
Bettie Page
Yvonne Craig ( Batgirl on television ).
Seems she has yet another secret identity that wasn't on the tv show.
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