Nicknames SILVER SCREEN Oct. 1932

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The article about nicknames.

Jack Oakie, Susan Fleming, and Lyda Roberti appeared in MILLION DOLLAR LEGS in 1932. Lyda Roberti would later replace Thelma Todd at the Hal Roach Studio.

The caption for the photo on the right tells us that Thelma Todd's nickname was "Hot Toddy". More on that later.

On the lower left it says Thelma Todd's nickname was "Hot Toddy" and gives an explanation.

                                             SEEIN' STARS Jan 4, 1934 had the same story.


Some fans don't want anyone to call Thelma Todd "Hot Toddy", although she was called that in her publicity and even in one of her films*.  Some fans also don't want anyone to call Fatty Arbuckle "Fatty" even though he was called that in some of the movie titles. The whole thing is strange, and not likely to endear the supposedly serious fans responsible for this behavior with the general public.


*LOVE FEVER.


LOVE FEVER:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022089/

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Ad for Nicknames SILVER SCREEN 1932

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Ad for an article on nicknames in the Sept. 1932 issue of SILVER SCREEN with Thelma Todd, 

                                             which tells us that her nickname was "Hot Toddy"

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SILVER SCREEN October 1932

The October 1932 issue of SILVER SCREEN has Marlene Dietrich on the cover.

 

 

On the left are Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, and on the right is Thelma Todd.

Thelma Todd got a lot of publicity out of SPEAK EASILY.

 

Bette Davis was from Massachusetts like Thelma Todd; they also both seem to have been into numerology. A number of movie stars were said to have been involved in the occult.

 

Left, silent star Douglas Fairbanks in one of his talkies.  Right, Joan Bennett and Claudette Colbert early in their careers.

Jimmy Durante was also in the cast of THE PHANTOM PRESIDENT. 

 

 

The Our Gang kids ride a horse. Another time they built their own fire engine. 

On the lower left is an item about Harpo Marx that is related to HORSEFEATHERS.

 

                                                                That's all, folks!

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SILVER SCREEN December 1930

Another period fan magazine with pictures of Thelma Todd and other movie stars.

Joan Crawford had worked with Harry Langdon in the silent era. After sound came in, she was a star.

 

 

 

Clara Bow's popularity had slipped, but she was still making movies in the thirties. The line about her "capers" refers to bad publicity related to scandals of the time.

 

 

 

Blondes were big in the thirties, but here we have Thelma Todd as a brunette. Actresses frequently changed their hair colors for different roles.

 

 

 

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