Tuesday, January 31, 2012

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THELMA TODD BY WILLIAM DONATI


Book Description
ISBN-10: 0786465182 | ISBN-13: 978-0786465187 | Publication Date: January 5,
2012
American film favorite Thelma Todd was much more than the beautiful blonde of
the 1930s who played opposite Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx
Brothers. Todd's tragic death transformed her into an icon of Hollywood mystery:
The photograph of the 29-year-old actress slumped in her luxurious Lincoln
Phaeton shocked fans in 1935. How did she die? Was it murder, suicide, or an
accident? This definitive biography covers a fascinating era in Hollywood
history. In the course of his exhaustive research, the author interviewed Todd's
cousins Bill and Edna Todd, as well as such friends and coworkers as Ida Lupino,
Lina Basquette, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Granger, William Bakewell and Greg
Blackton. Also examined is Hollywood's first major sex scandal of 1913,
involving Jewel Carmen, the future spouse of director Roland West--the man
Thelma Todd loved.


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