Joan Blondell on the set of Night Nurse
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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 Joan Blondell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joan Blondell. Show all posts
Friday, September 20, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Joan Lyndell And Joan Blondell
Every Doc Savage story had a beautiful girl in it, and Joan Lyndell was one of the girls.
Joan Lyndell appeared in one Doc Savage adventure, THE MYSTIC MULLAH, which was originally published in DOC SAVAGE magazine in January 1935.
But while Joan Blondell usually seemed to be seeking wealth in her movies, Joan Lyndell is described as a woman who had already attained wealth, and in that way is different. Since she is described as being tall and having dark hair, she wasn't even supposed to be that similar in appearance. Only the name seems the same, but that is close enough to make it look as if they had done it on purpose.
Joan Lyndell as depicted with Doc Savage in an illustration from he original magazine.
Reblogged from docsavagetales.blogspot.com/2011/03/pulp-of-week-doc-savage-23.html
Doc Savage stories usually had a weird mystery menace as well as a beautiful girl, and this one had such a menace, ghostly green spirit snakes that seemed to defy explanation until Doc got around to explaining them.
The green snakes in this story were borrowed for the 1975 movie DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE, which featured Ron Ely as Doc Savage.
Reblogged from https://gmepodcast.com/2012/08/20/tan-man-w-desk-fan/
Before that move had been made there had been plans to make a Doc Savage movie with Chuck Connors, but they were unable to get the rights to the character and they ended up making a western called RIDE BEYOND VENGEANCE. Also in the cast was Joan Blondell. Because of that, Joan Blondell herself could be seen as being linked to Doc Savage.
THE MYSTIC MULLAH:
http://docsavagetales.blogspot.com/2011/03/pulp-of-week-doc-savage-23.html
DOC SAVAGE: THE MAN OF BRONZE ( Movie ):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072886/
RIDE BEYOND VENGEANCE ( movie ):
http://atocom.blogspot.com/2011/04/doc-savage-movie-that-almost-was.html
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Monday, October 9, 2017
Friday, September 1, 2017
Joan Blondell And Gloria Blondell
Some photos of Joan Blondell, some with her sister Gloria, who was also in the movies. In 1940 Gloria Blondell married Cubby Broccoli, a cousin of Pat DiCicco. Pat DiCicco had been married to Thelma Todd.
GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933
THERE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN
With Glenda Farrell.
Joan Blondell and her sister Gloria
Gloria and Joan Blondell with their mother.
Joan Blondell and daughter Ellen
Gloria Blondell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Blondell
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Movie Star Lips
The lips of a number of stars of the thirties, including Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, Wini Shaw, Glenda Farrell, Dolores Del Rio, Veree Teasdale, Marion Davies, Jean Muir, Josephine Hutchinson, Olivia DeHaviland, Anita Louise, Patricia Ellis, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, and Kay Francis.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
"Love And The Leading Ladies" - SILVER SCREEN, April 1936
A tale of woe.
Morgan Galloway was an actor with whom Dorothy Appleby had costarred in YOUNG SINNERS on Broadway, hence the character assassination pertaining to acting.
This article was written by Ed Sullivan, an old-time reporter who later hosted a prime time variety show on television. There is a reference to ROBERTA early on. Lyda Roberti starred in the original Broadway production of the JEROME KERN and OTTO HARBACH musical comedy ROBERTA at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.
As for the individuals mentioned in this account, we have mentioned some of them before. I believe that Johnny Weissmuller was told to divorce his first wife by MGM because they thought marriage might affect his popularity, after which he married Lupe Velez while still in their employ. Esther Muir would work with the Marx Brothers in the 1937 movie A DAY AT THE RACES: she is thought of as being a replacement for Thelma Todd with the team. Morgan Galloway was an actor with whom Dorothy Appleby had costarred in YOUNG SINNERS on Broadway, hence the character assassination pertaining to acting.
Ed Sullivan:
http://www.edsullivan.com/about-ed-sullivan/
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
Happy Birthday, Joan Blondell
Today is the birthday of Joan Blondell . Here is a picture of her from the classic GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Hollywood Victory Caravan With Laurel and Hardy, Joan Blondell, And Cary Grant
From the Laurel and Hardy Archive on facebook.
On tour with the HOLLYWOOD VICTORY CARAVAN
Press text: Motion picture stars Joan Blondell, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, (left to right, kneeling) Cary Grant, Rise Stevens, Charles Boyer and Desi Arnaz (left to right, standing) were among the troupe of the Hollywood Victory Caravan which left Los Angeles, California, by train to tour the nation's largest cities to give benefit performances for the Army Emergency and Navy Relief Societies.
April 27, 1942:
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Monday, September 9, 2013
Pictures From PICTURE SHOW
Pictures from a British fan magazine from the thirties.
You see the last name of "Alison Lloyd" spelled with one letter "L" or two, despite the story that the name was selected because of it's numerological significance.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
FILM WEEKLY June 30, 1933
In 1933 Thelma Todd went to England and made the movie YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU. This British movie magazine came out afterward with Joan Blondell on the cover and an article about Thelma Todd inside.
Joan Blondell around the time she made 42ND STREET and GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933.
Thelma Todd's height was usually given as five foot four and her weight was usually given as a hundred and twenty pounds. The same height and weight was given for Clara Bow in this period, but Clara Bow had a difficult time keeping her weight that low as a grown woman. It's not hard to believe that Thelma Todd's weight had originally been more.
Jean Harlow was very popular at the time.
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Joan Blondell around the time she made 42ND STREET and GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933.
The article is illustrated with a publicity photo from YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU.
Thelma Todd's height was usually given as five foot four and her weight was usually given as a hundred and twenty pounds. The same height and weight was given for Clara Bow in this period, but Clara Bow had a difficult time keeping her weight that low as a grown woman. It's not hard to believe that Thelma Todd's weight had originally been more.
Jean Harlow was very popular at the time.
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Photos For A Fan
A fan's photo collection from the thirties included Thelma Todd, along with a lot of others, all of which they carefully listed on an index. Which I have here on the blog along with a number of the other pictures.
The seller's description on ebay:
Here is the photo of Thelma Todd with her dog "Gallant", which was evidently widely circulated at the time.
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Quite a few popular favorites in there. Some fans of the day were able to amass such collections even in the depths of the depression. At that time there were people going to the movies even when they had little money to spend on anything else. The popularity of the movies has since declined, as has the quality of the movies themselves.
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The seller's description on ebay:
1934 Thelma Todd 5 by 7 Fan Portrait Photo
From an extraordinary private collection of over 200 Vintage Hollywood and Television photographs.
Look at her index with dates she collected each photo shown in the listing.
Here is the photo of Thelma Todd with her dog "Gallant", which was evidently widely circulated at the time.
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And here are some of the other pictures in the collection.
And here is the index.
Quite a few popular favorites in there. Some fans of the day were able to amass such collections even in the depths of the depression. At that time there were people going to the movies even when they had little money to spend on anything else. The popularity of the movies has since declined, as has the quality of the movies themselves.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Wallace Ford And His Wife Martha Ford
Wallace Ford and his wife were friends of Thelma Todd's.
Wallace Ford (12 February, 1898 – 11 June, 1966) was an English film and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build later in life, appeared in a number of film westerns and B-films.
Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada where he was ill treated. About the age of eleven, he ran away and did oddjobs later becoming an usher in a theatre.
Following his discharge from the army after World War I, he became a vaudeville actor in astock company before performing on Broadway.[1]
He started on a filmcareer when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him part in the film Possessed and went on to appear in over 200 films including 13 directed by John Ford. (The two were unrelated.)
He also appeared in a 1964 episode of The Andy Griffith Show as Roger Hanover, Aunt Bee's old flame, which originally aired October 19th. Twenty months later, Ford died. He is buried with an unmarked grave in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Today, Wallace Ford might be remembered as much for his appearences in the "Mummy" movies as for anything else he did, although he had a long and successful career in the movies and later worked on television. His wife Martha is mentioned in connection with Thelma Todd in various accounts because of her testimony that she had talked to Thelma Todd on the phone the afternoon before she was found dead: the authorities insisted that Thelma Todd must already have been dead at that time and that Mrs. Ford must have been mistaken. A sad aftermath for a festive occasion at any event.
Thelma Todd and Wallace Ford can be seen in one of the photos on this page in the January 1935 issue of PHOTOPLAY.
Leo Carillo, Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, and Wallace Ford at barbeque.
Wallace Ford
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Wallace Ford | |
|---|---|
 Wallace Ford in Central Park (1932) | |
| Born | Samuel Jones Grundy 12 February 1898 Bolton, Lancashire, England, U.K. |
| Died | 11 June 1966 (aged 68) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Wally Ford |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1930–1965 |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Haworth (m. 1922 – 1966) |
Born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he spent childhood in a Dr. Barnardo's home. At an early age he was adopted by a farmer from Manitoba, Canada where he was ill treated. About the age of eleven, he ran away and did odd
Following his discharge from the army after World War I, he became a vaudeville actor in a
He started on a film
He also appeared in a 1964 episode of The Andy Griffith Show as Roger Hanover, Aunt Bee's old flame, which originally aired October 19th. Twenty months later, Ford died. He is buried with an unmarked grave in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.
Partial filmography
- X Marks the Spot (1931)
- Freaks (1932)
- Three-Cornered Moon (1933)
- The Lost Patrol (1934)
- The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
- The Informer (1935)
- Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
- The Rogues Tavern (1936)
- O.H.M.S. (1937)
- Of Mice And Men (1937)
- The Mummy's Hand (1940)
- The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
- Spellbound (1945)*The Green Years (1946)
- T-Men (1947)
- Dead Reckoning (1947)
- Coroner Creek (1948)
- Embraceable You (1948)
- The Set-Up (1949)
- Red Stallion in the Rockies (1949)
- Harvey (1950)
- He Ran All The Way (1951)
- She Couldn't Say No (1954)
- The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
- Destry (1954)
- Lucy Gallant (1955)
- Wichita (1955)
- The Man From Laramie (1955)
- A Lawless Street (1955)
- Twilight for the Gods (1958)
- The Matchmaker (1958)
- Warlock (1959)
- A Patch of Blue (1965)
Television
- Father Knows Best (1954)
- Justice (1954)
- Damon Runyon Theatre (1955)
- The Andy Griffith Show (1964)
References
- ^ Hal Erickson, Allmovie biography on Wallace Ford
External links
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Today, Wallace Ford might be remembered as much for his appearences in the "Mummy" movies as for anything else he did, although he had a long and successful career in the movies and later worked on television. His wife Martha is mentioned in connection with Thelma Todd in various accounts because of her testimony that she had talked to Thelma Todd on the phone the afternoon before she was found dead: the authorities insisted that Thelma Todd must already have been dead at that time and that Mrs. Ford must have been mistaken. A sad aftermath for a festive occasion at any event.
Leo Carillo, Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, and Wallace Ford at barbeque.
Anita Page at one of Wallace Ford's parties.
Anita Page was there at the party when Mrs. Wallace Ford recieved a call from Thelma Todd the day before she was found dead. But according to the authorities, Thelma Todd would already have been dead at that time and could not have made the call.
Mrs. Wallace Ford
And the caption from the back of this photo:
Lucille Ball with Wallace Ford
Anita Page ( Official Site ):
Wallace Ford ( Silver Screen Oasis.com ):
Wallace Ford Obituary:
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