MOTION PICTURE September 1935 - Thelma Todd as Lillian Russell

There had been another reference to Thelma Todd as Lillian Russell in MOTION PICTURE in September 1935. So it seem to have been a recurring thing in that magazine.

Cellophane seemed more glamorous when it was new.

Thelma Todd is likened to Lillian Russell on the last page. It could be because of the then-current movie DIAMOND JIM, which had Binnie Barnes playing Lillian Russell.



                                                         Binnie Barnes as Lillian Russell

Alice Faye as Lillian Russell

                                                Marilyn Monroe as Lillian Russell

And Lillian Russell herself, a glamour girl whose day was before the others.

I thought Paula Stone ( who was in a picture on the last page of the article ) was cute, we've had her on the blog before, in another picture from MOTION PICTURE. One that had Thelma Todd in it.

This happens to be the same issue the Pat O'Brien article was in that I put on the blog the other day.

Watch Paula Stone in SWING IT PROFESSOR, 1937





Binnie Barnes:
http://classiccinemaimages.com/binnie-barnes/binnie-barnes/

DIAMOND JIM with Binnie Barnes as Lillian Russell:
http://immortalephemera.com/3790/diamond-jim-1935-starring-edward-arnold-as-diamond-jim-brady/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026277/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1


Grace Moore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Moore

Marian Marsh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Marsh


MOTION PICTURE:
http://mediahistoryproject.org/fanmagazines/

Lillian Russell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Russell

Ann Southern:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Sothern

Paula Stone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Stone


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MOTION PICTURE March 1936: Pat O'Brien

Here's an article about Pat O'Brien from the March 1936 issue of MOTION PICTURE which mentions Ted Healy as someone Pat O'Brien associated with. This is a little after the death of Thelma Todd, but Pat O'Brien used to know her, and it looks like he knew Ted Healy, too. Just thought I'd put that in after the other stuff I'd put on the blog about Ted Healy.

 

 

 

 

 I haven't seen CEILING ZERO, but I like June Travis.

 

 

 

DIAMOND JIM was a movie where Binnie Barnes played Lillian Russell. It was a recent movie at the time this magazine was published. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn't the first time that Thelma Todd had been compared to Lillian Russell in this magazine. The September 1935 issue had done that, too. We take a look at that one next. 

 

 

 

 

 

MOTION PICTURE:
http://mediahistoryproject.org/fanmagazines/


Lillian Russell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Russell



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