Thelma Todd With Joe E. Brown

This is a publicity picture for SON OF A SAILOR, in which Thelma Todd played a foreign spy and wore a brunette wig.

"Vitaphone" referred originally to a sound on disc process, but the name continued to be used by Warner Brothers after the system was replaced by sound on film. The name First National likewise continued to be used after that studio had merged with Warner Brothers. The old First National logo with the ring around the country may be seen at the bottom of this picture.


First National:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National



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SON OF A SAILOR Ad

SON OF A SAILOR was a 1934 Warner Brothers production starring Joe E. Brown. Here is an ad for this movie that shows him Thelma Todd ( left ) and Jean Muir ( right ).

Although Thelma Todd was usually blonde, she was a brunette in this movie, something that might have been related to her part being that of a foreign spy.


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Foreign Posters

From "Laurel And Hardy Archive" on facebook.




                                                                  CORSAIR ( 1931 )

 

 

 

 

 

 THIS IS THE NIGHT

 

SON OF A SAILOR

 

 

 AFTER THE DANCE

DECEPTION

THE BOHEMIAN GIRL

The small Gypsy girl in front of Laurel may have been intended to represent Thelma Todd.

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SON OF A SAILOR

This photo is identified as being from SON OF A SAILOR, with Joe E. Brown.


Thelma_Todd_Still_by_Elmer_Fryer_(1933-SON_OF_SAILOR-Lloyd_Bacon)

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Thelma Todd?

I frequently see pictures of other blondes misidentified as Thelma Todd. Here are a few.

EVE'S SECRET, 1925

This photo turned up on ebay as having Thelma Todd on the left. But Thelma Todd's first movie was supposed to have been FASCINATING YOUTH in 1926.

Notice the notation on the back about the girl on the left being Thelma Todd. This was added some time after the original caption.

Joan Peers ( with Buster Keaton )

Still from PARLOR, BEDROOM, AND BATH. A blog used this as a Thelma Todd picture.

From a blog.

Thelma Todd was in a movie called AIR HOSTESS, but this is a cartoon. The series name "Color Rhapsody" is a giveaway.

Joan Blondell

Misidentified as "Thelma Todd" in a well-known book. The author's a sort of a friend of mine, so I won't rat on him, except here.

 

 

 

Marlene Dietrich

 

 

This picture was labeled "Thelma Todd" on one site.

 

Mary Carlisle

in a scene from PALOOKA,  a movie which also had Thelma Todd in it. The picture was being sold on ebay as "Thelma Todd".

Son Of A Sailor

Sold on ebay as a Thelma Todd photo. She's not in this picture, but she was in the movie.

Pat DiCicco And Friend.

Pat DiCicco And Friend's Backside

They started out with a reference to DiCicco having been married to Thelma Todd. After that things got confused

And this is the Real Thelma Todd.

My fan club for Thelma Todd:

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/thelmatoddclub/