NAUGHTY BABY Movie Photos

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Thelma Todd in NAUGHTY BABY

 

 

 

 

Thelma Todd, center, in NAUGHTY BABY 

 

 

 

Alice White

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Lost Thelma Todd Films Found

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Two lost films featuring Thelma Todd have been found.

From Ron Hutchinson on Facebook:

It's always great when I can announce a "lost" film discovery, and today I can announce TWO!

First, Alice White's second starring feature, NAUGHTY BABY ('28) which had a Vitaphone music and sound effects track, has been found by our friend and author James Layton. You'll recall that three years ago, Alice's lost first starring feature, SHOW GIRL ('28) was found in Italy, and has been restored with its Vitaphone track. Warner Bros still needs to complete some work on re-doing the Italian inserts (headlines, business cards, notes, etc.) before it is again screened. I was able to show it at Film Forum last year and it is a fun film with a great peppy soundtrack of pop dance tunes. James now works at MOMA's film vaults in Pennsylvania, and noticed the NAUGHTY BABY title. So while technically not lost, it has been hiding and unknown for over 8 decades. Art Pierce has announced that Capitolfest will be screening NAUGHTY BABY with live piano accompaniment on August 12th (will post link in comments below). Meanwhile, The Vitaphone Project will be working with MOMA and Warner Bros to ultimately get the film re-synched with the surviving full set of Vitaphone disks!

The second discovery, 1929's First National feature CAREERS ('29) starring Billie Dove, has been found in Italy and again all of its Vitaphone disks survive. We are working with the involved parties to also get this film wedded to it's soundtrack disks.

Stay tuned on both fronts!

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Ed Lorusso

Writer/Historian

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NAUGHTY BABY ('28) :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020209/

CAREERS ('29) :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019751/

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NAUGHTY BABY Photo

NAUGHTY BABY was a 1928 First National Picture, starring Alice White. Thelma Todd was also in the cast and is in this photo on the left.

My attempt at restoration.

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Thelma Todd And Alice White

Jorge Finkleman has removed the watermarks from these pictures, so here are the new versions.


Thelma Todd and Alice White from around the time that they were in NAUGHTY BABY in 1928.

 

 

  Thelma Todd stands behind director Alfred Santell and in front of Frances Hamilton, Yola D'Avril, Alice White and Mervyn LeRoy.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

A couple of Thanksgiving pictures which have Thelma Todd in them and which also happen to be publicity pictures for the movie NAUGHTY BABY.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                



                                                        
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Alice White And Thelma Todd

A few pictures of Thelma Todd with Alice White from around the time they were in NAUGHTY BABY.


This is one we've had before.

A couple of pictures I found on the internet, with their captions ( the dates are wrong, these all appear to have been taken around the same time ).

Reblogged from http://www.gettyimages.com/editorial/thelma-todd-pictures#

 

circa 1933: American actress Thelma Todd (1905 - 1935), the heroine of many First National two-reel comedies, stands behind director Alfred Santell and in front of Frances Hamilton, Yola D'Avril, Alice White and Mervyn LeRoy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 

 

Remember the picture of Thelma Todd with Charlie Chaplin? I think that was Alfred Santell on the left in that one, the guy that somebody said was Hal Roach. Mervyn LeRoy is on the right in both pictures.

 

circa 1931: Alice White, the silent era First National player, is playing leap frog with Thelma Todd, also of First National

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NAUGHTY BABY Flyer

We've seen this one before, too, but this is a better copy then the one we had.

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Thelma Todd And Charlie Chaplin Photo

We've had this photograph on this blog before, but information on it turned up on another site recently. To be specific, a copy that had been published in CINE-MUNDIAL in 1928 with a caption which told which movie it was from.




Reblogged from http://discoveringchaplin.blogspot.com/2013/08/charlie-with-thelma-todd-on-set-of.html

Translation:"Charles Chaplin with Thelma Todd, the First National blonde, and the directors with same company, working on RITZY ROSIE."

RIZY ROSIE would eventually be released as NAUGHTY BABY, so this photo was taken during the production of that movie. NAUGHTY BABY was an Alice White movie and she was associated with Charlie Chaplin, so it's not surprising that he turned up during the production of this film.

One book on Chaplin had a date of 1935 on this photo and I've referred back to that myself in the past. Occasionally you see where the man on the left in this photo is referred to as Hal Roach, but he appears to be one of the people who was working on this movie*. The man on the right is Mervyn Leroy.



Reblogged from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/139189444707277644/

 

Here we have a photo of actress Anita Stewart visiting NAUGHTY BABY costar Jack Mulhall at the same location, the Santa Monica beach. Notice that the same building is visible in the background.

 

And here we have a photo of Alice White at the beach.

*I believe this is director Alfred Santell , who can also be seen in another picture with Thelma Todd and Alice White from NAUGHTY BABY.

                                                                     
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Here is a message from beachgal concerning the location where these photos were taken:

I think I had put a comment on this in the first blog you had with the photo of Thelma and Charlie but will leave it here since I just ran into this blog now -- they are standing in front of The Breakers beach club at Santa Monica - there's a pretty good photo of it here http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/breakers.htm - the photo of Alice White might have been taken behind one of those glass wind-breaks you can see in the photo link here - I have no association with the page this photo links to - I just know a lot about the various beach clubs along SM beaches through the years. Thought you might like to have a specific name to where they were standing.

 

The Breakers Beach Club of Santa Monica

NAUGHTY BABY:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020209/

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19290219&id=PHtIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xWgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5999,6104240


Charlie Chaplin:
http://discoveringchaplin.blogspot.com/


Jack Mulhall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Mulhall

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611804/



Alice White:
http://alicewhitestar.blogspot.com/

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

http://talkieking.blogspot.com/2009/05/alice-white-showgirl-in-hollywood.html


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NAUGHTY BABY Flyer

The movie NAUGHTY BABY starred Alice White, but Thelma Todd was one of her costars.

 

The "It" business was more usually associated with Clara Bow, but Alice White was supposed to be like another Clara Bow.

 

 

 

Thelma Todd's name is on the cast list, but there aren't any pictures of her, just Alice White.







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