Showing posts with label Publicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Publicity. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Publicity




Magazine articles for Thelma Todd.


Reblogged from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0865298/publicity

Article
Classic Images (USA)August 1995, Iss. 242, pg. 24, 34, by: R.E. Braff, "An Index to the Films of Thelma Todd"
Classic Images (USA)August 1995, Iss. 242, pg. 10 et passim, by: Eve Golden, "The Tragedy and Comedy of Thelma Todd"
Classic Images (USA)April 1985, Iss. 118, pg. 48-49, by: Joyce A. Rogers, "Thelma Todd, No Dumb Blonde"
New York Times (USA)31 January 1936, pg. 17:3, "Thelma Todd Will Is Filed [dated 19 September 1933]"
New York Times (USA)11 January 1936, pg. 5:5, "Thelma Todd Estate to Mother [$10,000+ to Mrs. Alice Todd and $1 to De Cicco]"
New York Times (USA)4 January 1936, pg. 34:3, "Grand Jury Divides on Miss Todd's Death; Most of Them Favor Suicide Theory, but None Believes It Was Accidental"
IFK-Wien (Austria)1936, Vol. 6, Iss. 1580, "Schon ist das Ziegeunerleben"
New York Times (USA)29 December 1935, pg. 14:5, "'Publicity Seekers' Confuse Todd Case; 'Hodge-Podge of Honest Evidence and Obvious Faking' Found by Prosecutor"
New York Times (USA)27 December 1935, pg. 40:3, "New Todd Evidence Seen in Jury's Move; Inquirers Pay Unexpected Visit to Scene of Actress's Death in Los Angeles"
New York Times (USA)26 December 1935, pg. 30:5, "Reports Miss Todd Bruised on Throat; Prosecutor Will Question Surgeons but Says Any Marks Might Have Come Naturally; Hints Witnesses Erred; He Asserts Blonde Driving in Auto with Man Might Have been Mistaken for Actress"
New York Times (USA)25 December 1935, pg. 44:5, "ZaSu Pitts Called by Todd Case Jury; Inquiry Turns to Report of a Luncheon Party Day Before Mysterious Death; Strange Escort Hinted; But Such a Gathering Is Denied--Head Waiter Says He Has Received New Threats"
New York Times (USA)24 December 1935, pg. 34:2, "Miss Todd Linked to a 'Strange Man'; Store Owner Tells Grand Jury of Actress Phoning and Then Leaving Place with Escort; Quick Gas Action Shown; Detective Says Garage Tests Indicated Monoxide Had Fatal Effect in Two Minutes"
New York Times (USA)23 December 1935, pg. 9:1, "Todd Jury Acts Today; Friends of Film Star Will Be Questioned Concerning Her Death (including Roland West, Pat De Cicco; Jewel Carmen and Mrs. Wallace Ford)"
New York Times (USA)22 December 1935, pg. 16:2, "Todd 'Death Walk' Traced for Clue; Woman Operative Climbs 270 Steps from Actress's Sidewalk Cafe to Garage; Slipper Marks Compared; Footwear More Scuffed Than the Dead Woman's--De Cicco Is Expected on Coast Friday"
New York Times (USA)21 December 1935, pg. 34:2, "Todd Study Turns to Suicide Theory; Prosecutor Declares Evidence Indicates Actress Became Despondent at Party; Waiter [Alex Hounie] Receives 'Threat'; Four More Say They Saw Film Player Late Sunday, but Official Discounts It"
New York Times (USA)20 December 1935, pg. 11:1, "Push Two Inquiries in the Todd Death; Police to Question West and Two Cafe Aides on Events of Sunday Morning; Waiter Reports Threat; Jury Foreman Hints Data on Murder--Thousands Pass Actress;s Bier"
New York Times (USA)19 December 1935, pg. 8:1, "Todd Death Sent to Grand Jurors; Inquest Verdict Leans to View of Accident but Asks for Further Inquiry; Actress Seen on Sunday; Estranged Wife [Jewel Carmen] of [Roland] West Says Star Was with a Man on Day After Supposed Demise"
New York Times (USA)18 December 1935, pg. 29:5, "Death Night Fears of Miss Todd Told; Chauffeur [Ernest O. Peters] Says She Had Him Drive at Breakneck Speed on Way from Party; Wanted to Avoid Gangs' Police Assert that She Had Tiff with Roland West, Her Partner in Cafe"
Variety (USA)18 December 1935, "Thelma Todd, 31, Dies, Monoxide Poisoning; No Mystery Angles"
New York Times (USA)17 December 1935, pg. 4:3, "Actress Trained as a Teacher"
New York Times (USA)17 December 1935, pg. 1:5, "Thelma Todd Dead; Found in Garage; Actress, Discovered in Auto After 18 Hours, Was Monoxide Victim Surgeon Says; Friend's Story Differs; Actor's Wife Says Miss Todd Phoned Her Long After Hour of Death Set by Autopsy"
New York Times (USA)31 October 1935, pg. 16:1, "Denies Threatening Actress"
Motion Picture World (USA)12 November 1927, pg. 19, "Thelma Todd Injured"
Motion Picture World (USA)9 July 1927, pg. 97, "Miss Todd Cast"
Motion Picture Classic (USA)June 1927, pg. 33, 70, "School Is Dismissed; And So Ends the Term of Paramount High [graduates included: Todd, Buddy Rogers, Mona Palma, Ivy Harris, Iris Gray, Jack Ludin, Josephine Dunn, Walter Goss]"
Motion Picture World (USA)8 January 1927, pg. 121, "Thelma Todd"
Photoplay Magazine (USA)June 1926, pg. 86, "Three Little Girls from Paramount's School..."


Pictorial
Playmen (Italy)September 1967, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, pg. 136, by: Franco Valobra, "I suicidi, i gangsters e il sex-appeal"


Magazine cover photo
BZ - Berlin (Germany)1935
Illustrierter Film_Kurier-Wien (Austria)1933, Vol. 3, Iss. 699















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Friday, December 28, 2018

Too Pretty To Work







An early publicity story about Thelma Todd, from THE PITTSBURGH PRESS, Sun., Apr 11, 1926. G. D. Hamann  ( THELMA TODD IN THE THIRTIES ) sent in this one.



















Napoleon Demara and the Empire/ Warner Theater:
http://www.pbase.com/jroy/warner



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Friday, December 12, 2014

Thelma Todd, Hollywood Cocktail

















This Thelma Todd news item is a publicity article for LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE. Note that Thelma Todd was actually from Lawrence, Mass., not Lowell.




THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, Sunday, November 18, 1934






Mussolini hoped to expand Italy's population in order to have more soldiers, hence Thelma Todd's reference to Mussolini's "anticipated population". "All the Russians" likewise means a great many people.






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Monday, January 28, 2013

The Camera Never Lies... But The Retoucher Does

The camera never lies, so they say. But the retouchers say a little fib never hurt anyone.



A retoucher painted out part of this picture of Thelma Todd ( as "Alison Loyd", in CORSAIR ), in order to make her stand out from the background for publication. Sometimes they painted out other things, such as blemishes or distracting details. Retouchers could change a photograph's appearence a great deal.
 
 
 
 
 
 Ginger Rogers at Paramount, before she was famous. They wanted her to stand out from the background, too
 

The picture is marked "reverse, so presumably they wanted it reversed when printed for publication.



                                                                                Paulette Goddard




A little off the sides, please.


 
 
 
Mae West
 
 
They did the same thing with this picture, but it's a little less obvious.
 

 







Dale pointed out that they retouched this photo to make Carole Forman's bust smaller. The painted-out area is still visible as white.

 
Here, Dale attempted to restore "The Spider Lady" to her former greatness.
 
 
 
Ann Rutherford 
 
 
This one also looks like there has been retouching in the area of the bust..
 
 
 
 
Carole Landis, sometimes called "The Original Sweater Girl"
 
 
 This one, too.
 
 
 
 
Somebody thought Spock of Star Trek fame looked a little too much like the Devil. Something that didn't really seem to matter on television, but they wanted a different look for their publication.
 
 
 
 Left, Spock as he really looks ( at least on television ). Right, the new improved version.
 
 
 
 
 Finally, we take a look at something a retoucher might have done, but did not.
 
 
The wire suspending the balloon on the left is visible in this picture of Thelma Todd at Paramound in the silent era. A retoucher could have painted the wire out to make it appear as if the balloon were floating in midair, without any type of support.
 
 
 
 
 I've never retouched photos, and I never progressed beyond semi-professional photographer as I never really made any money out of it, but I worked with the old cameras and the old techniques and am familiar with them. The guys that made those old publicity pictures achieved fantastic results without modern equiptment. They are amoung the unsung heroes of their era, and Hollywood owes them much.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Some Roach Publicity

Some Publicity material from the Hal Roach studio.






Press books featured a variety of publicity items for the latest release, some of which were even true. Thelma Todd actually did enter films the way this one says.




20th anniversary poster for Hal Roach, featuring an odd green Patsy Kelly.



20th anniversary ad for Hal Roach