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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 Our Gang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Gang. Show all posts
Monday, February 15, 2021
Monday, September 2, 2019
LOVE BUSINESS
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LOVE BUSINESS was a 1931 Our Gang comedy that had a poster with Thelma Todd in it.
LOVE BUSINESS:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022088/
https://ourgang.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Business
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LOVE BUSINESS was a 1931 Our Gang comedy that had a poster with Thelma Todd in it.
LOVE BUSINESS:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022088/
https://ourgang.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Business
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Monday, July 8, 2019
Sound Truck At The Roach Studio
From the Laurel and Hardy Archive on facebook.
STAN LAUREL, sound engineer ELMER RAGUSE and OLIVER HARDY on board of the new sound truck
1929
(from the Craig Raguse collection)
With the gang.
The truck, btw, was bult on an REO Speedwagon chassis.
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Monday, December 24, 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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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Happy Valentine's Day
From Our Gang! This photo was autographed by Tommy Bond and some of the other members of the gang!
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Friday, December 22, 2017
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Our Gang Comic Ad For Royal Gelatin
From the comic supplement PUCK for 23 Feb 1936. Note that Pete the Pup is shown as one of the stars in the lineup above the strip, along with Spanky, Buckwheat, Darla, Alfalfa, and Porky..
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Spanky And Alfalfa With Zeffie Tilbury
SECOND CHILDHOOD was an Our Gang comedy in which Spanky and his friends befriend a lonely old lady played by Zeffie Tilbury and bring happiness into her life. Here is a publicity photo from this film with the original caption.
In the same year Zeffie Tilbury also portrayed the Gypsy Queen in THE BOEMIAN GIRL: Thelma Todd played the Gypsy Queen's daughter.
SECOND CHILDHOOD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Childhood_(film)
Zeffie Tilbury:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeffie_Tilbury
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Friday, September 11, 2015
Dickie Moore And Shirley Temple
Dickie Moore passed away a few days after fellow Our Gang Member Jean Darling. Here is a publicity photo showing Dickie Moore and Shirley Temple having a tea party with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Jean Darling Leaves Our Gang To Freelance
Jean Darling left Hal Roach and Our Gang for other roles, in which she was to find success.
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Jean Darling Lookalike
The little girl on the left was Toronto's choice to play Jean Darling. This was part of a campaign to get kids in different city to impersonate the Our Gang kids. The idea was that the impersonators would themselves attempt to make their own comedy film.
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Jean Darling
A few pictures of Jean Darling.
Wheezer, Jean Darling, Farina, Joe Cobb, Harry Spear, Mary Ann Jackson and Pete the Pup.
Another photo of Jean with the gang.
Jean Darling with Oliver Hardy.
Jean Darling on the scales.
Jean Darling in a Buick, 1931.
There was a picture of Thelma Todd with this toy lamb.
Jean Darling:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/jean-darling.html
http://www.catsafterme.com/blog/archives/3167
Pete The Pup:
http://www.angelfire.com/stars3/petey/meet.html
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Monday, September 7, 2015
Happy Labor Day
From the Hal Roach Studio on facebook:
Happy Labor Day. Try not to do too much heavy lifting today.
And a farewell to our darling Miss Darling*.
*Yesterday it was announced that Jean Darling ( the girl in front ) had died. We will miss her.
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Sunday, September 6, 2015
Spanky McFarland
Spanky McFarland was one of the Our Gang kids. And he worked with Thelma Todd, too.
He was in the last film of the series with Zasu Pitts, ONE TRACK MINDS.
And here he is with Patsy Kelly, who replaced Zasu Pitts in the series. At left is director Gus Meins. I believe the costume Thelma Todd is wearing is from MAID IN HOLLYWOOD.
According to the caption the other boy is Spanky's brother, Tommy.
Johnny Weissmuller with Spanky
ONE TRACK MINDS:
http://www.lordheath.com/index.php?p=1_1306_One-Track-Minds
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Autographed Our Gang Photo
A vintage inscribed press shot of Our Gang's Spanky McFarland, Buckwheat Thomas, Porky Lee, Carl Alfalfa Switzer and Darla Hood enjoying those jelly sandwiches, circa 1930s!
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Sunday, April 5, 2015
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