Merry Christmas

From Dorothy Lee!

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"Frat Heads" - FILM DAILY

FRAT HEADS was a proposed Wheeler and Woolsey comedy that was never made.

This item can be seen in the middle of the lower part of this page.

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"The Stars Correspond" - MODERN SCREEN Jan. 1931

I've had Thelma Todd's letter from this magazine on the blog before. Here is the complete article, along with the other letters, and the cover.

Thelma Todd's letter to Zasu Pitts, shown here at a larger size.

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See If You Can Count The Stars ( Vitaphone )

A publicity item for that challenges you to name the stars of Vitaphone shorts shown here.
Among the stars pictured are Abe Lyman, Shemp Howard, Fatty Arbuckle, Dorothy Lee, Ruth Etting, and Patricia Ellis.

From "The Vitaphone Project" on facebook, and originally from a May 1934 magazine.

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Wheeler And Woolsey And Friends On Tour

Wheeler and Woolsey made personal appearance tours, and some of the girls who worked with them in the movies went with them on these tours. Dorothy Lee, the girl who worked with them most often, went on more than one of these tours.  And Thelma Todd went with them on one tour.

From G. D. Hamann's THELMA TODD IN THE THIRTIES:

10/27/1933 EHE Harrison Carroll

Going the personal appearance idea one better, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee will join together in a musical comedy and make a swing through Texas, up the South Atlantic Coast, the middle west and finally to New York.

The vehicle, "Dumb Bells," is all ready and the four-starred caravan will leave Hollywood soon after they finish HIPS, HIPS HOORAY at RKO. They plan to play engagements at Phoenix, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit and on to Broadway.

If you can believe it's enthusiastic backers, "Dumb Bells" will not be the thrown-together show such as you road audiences have been victimized by in the past. Tim Whelan, Wheeler and Woolsey collaborated on the book, and the veteran team of Kalmar and Ruby have furnished the songs.




Betty Grable went with them on another.

Betty Grable had evidently made a splash in THE GAY DIVORCEE in 1933, singing "Let's K-nock K-nees"  and dancing with Edward Everett Horton,

but wouldn't be considered a big star until the forties.

Betty Grable became the top pin-up girl of the second World War.

Here we see Betty Grable being interviewed on the radio by Paula Stone in the 1940's.

Betty Grable:
http://bettygrable.net/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002107/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Grable


Dorothy Lee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Lee_(actress)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497186/

Dorothy Lee on personal appearance tour with Wheeler and Woosey:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZlNcYGUwEpMC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=wheeler+and+woolsey+personal+appearance&source=bl&ots=Ve_bLczM2D&sig=YHg4QLiy57ENLiu2QDCBGDtkxa8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=96XxUYSRB4PRqgH20gE&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=wheeler%20and%20woolsey%20personal%20appearance&f=false


Wheeler And Woolsey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_%26_Woolsey

http://talkieking.blogspot.com/2009/01/wheeler-woolsey-great-comedy-team.html

Wheeler And Woolsey Fan Page:
http://users.wowway.com/~stoogeman/




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Wheeler And Woolsey With Thelma Todd And Dorothy Lee

Dorothy Lee frequently appeared in films with Wheeler and Woolsey. Thelma Todd made two pictures with them, HIPS HIPS HOORAY ahd COCKEYED CAVALIERS.

  

Bert Wheeler with Thelma Todd. 

 Thelma Todd with Bert Wheeler's cigar and glasses.

Dance scene-  Wheeler and Woolsey with Dorothy Lee and Thelma Todd. 

Dorothy Lee with Wheeler.

Wheeler and Woolsey.

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Dorothy Lee Photo

Dorothy Lee

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The Robert Woolsey Gag

                Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey with frequent costar Dorothy Lee.

                                                  Bert Wheeler as Robert Woolsey

 

 

 

Dorothy Lee as Robert Woolsey

 

 

 

Thelma Todd tries the disguise on for size,

 

 

 

to be eventually emulated by Madonna.

 

 

 

 

 "That's All, Folks!"

 

 

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Dorothy Lee Photo - THE CUCKOOS

This Dorothy Lee photo seems to be from 1930 film THE CUCKOOS, something that isn't mentioned on the caption.

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Dorothy Lee - THE CUCKOOS Sheet Music

Dorothy Lee's photo is on this sheet music for I LOVE YOU SO MUCH from THE CUCKOOS.

 

 

 

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Happy New Year

From Thelma White and Dorothy Lee!

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Happy New Year!

From Thelma White and Dorothy Lee!

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Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee Letters - MODERN SCREEN, January 1932

The same issue of MODERN SCREEN reprinted letters from Dorothy Lee to Bert Wheeler and from Thelma Todd to Zasu Pitts.

 

 

 

Thelma Todd's letter.

Note that Thelma Todd calls Zasu Pitts "Pittsy" here, a nickname she used for her in SEAL SKINS, one of the two-reel comedies they made together. Thelma Todd was in San Francisco when she wrote this letter - San Francisco was a place she referred to on more than one occasion, and it was evidently someplace where she would go.



Dorothy Lee's letter.

"Pittsy" used in SEAL SKINS:
http://books.google.com/books?id=fSP4lHULPwsC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=toddy+and+pittsy&source=bl&ots=lOLcNjQhGx&sig=HrN8k48fATPyWACtV5QowpAaUMA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sR_qU9mbCNP8yQTSloDABQ&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=toddy%20and%20pittsy&f=false


SEAL SKINS:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2014/07/seal-skins.html



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Dorothy Lee - MODERN SCREEN, January 1932

Here is another magazine article about Dorothy Lee, this time from MODERN SCREEN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorothy Lee article in MOTION PICTURE:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/11/dorothy-lee-motion-picture.html




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