BOTTOMS UP Sheet Music

John Boles, Thelma Todd, Spencer Tracy, and Pat Patterson are on the cover of this sheet music for a song from the 1934 Fox production BOTTOMS UP.

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BOTTOMS UP

BOTTOMS UP was produced by Fox before they became 20th Century Fox.

 The 1934 Fox pre-code comedy / musical film, BOTTOMS UP starred Spencer Tracy, Pat Paterson, John Boles, Sid Silvers, Herbert Mundin, Harry Green, Thelma Todd, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Dell Henderson, Suzanne Kaaren, Douglas Wood, Lucille Ball, Lynn Bari, June Gale, Barbara Pepper and Mariska Aldrich. The film was directed by David Butler. The photo features a great shot of Pat Paterson hugging Thelma Todd as John Boles waits beside a microphone.







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BOTTOMS UP Glass Slide

A glass slide advertising BOTTOMS UP, the 1934 Fox production starring Spencer Tracy, John Boles, and Pat Patterson.

Thelma Todd is at the right. She was playing the "other woman" again in this one.






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BOTTOMS UP Flyer

BOTTOMS UP starred Spencer Tracy and English actress Pat Patterson. Thelma Todd was one of their costars.

Thelma Todd is in the picture in the middle on the right.

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Thelma Todd Sheet Music

This is a story about sheet music with Thelma Todd on the cover, as sometimes happened in the thirties.










SMILE WHEN THE RAINDROPS FALL has Charley Chase, Laurel and Hardy, Harry Langdon, and the Our Gang Kids as well as Thelma Todd on the cover.

EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU was the song the Marx Brothers all sang to Thelma Todd in the movie HORSE FEATHERS. So not surprisingly, her picture is on the cover of this sheet music.

 

 

 

 

 

This version doesn't have Thelma Todd's picture on it.

 

 

Incidentally, Paramount's use of the name "Famous" for the "Famous Studios" animation studio  is related to their use of the name for their sheet music division.

 

 

 

 

 SITTING PRETTY

 

 

That of course is Ginger Rogers on the cover, although you can see Thelma Todd's name listed at the lower left.

 

 

 

BOTTOMS UP

 

 

Pat Patterson on the cover, Thelma Todd's name also appears at lower right. "Movietone" was Fox, they also had "Movietone news".

 

 

 

 

 Some sheet music for COCKEYED CAVALIERS.

 

 With Wheeler and Woolsey on the cover, and Thelma Todd's name listed at lower right.

 

 

 

 

 

Then there was some sheet music Thelma Todd had in CHICKENS COME HOME.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The girl on the cover of this version could be Thelma Todd,

 

 which might seem to be appropriate since it's her sheet music. Although I think this version was made for the film.









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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:

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.

 

 

 

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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