IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME Cover

VAMPING VENUS was a 1928 First National production starring Thelma Todd and Charlie Murray.
IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME was a title used by the studio in publicity prior to the film's release. In this film, Thelma Todd played an actress and this scene is set in her dressing room, with photos of her visible on the wall behind them.

Posted by Jorge Finkielman in the Hal Roach Studios page on facebook.

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VAMPING VENUS Pictures

More pictures from VAMPING VENUS.

The form divine juxtaposed with junk in an antique photo intended to invoke antiquity.

Reblogged from https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/538925.html

This one has been on the blog before.

Reblogged from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019520/mediaviewer/rm3649263872

But without this caption:

Thelma Todd, Catherine Hunter, and Robert H. Wagner in Vamping Venus (1928)

I knew who the other people were. Catherine Hunter and Rob Wagner were two of Thelma Todd's friends who wrote about her in the fan magazines. But somehow I missed the Venus connection, although you can see in this picture that she has the same hairdo.

Hirschfeld caricatures of Thelma Todd and Charlie Murray

Reblogged from http://www.alhirschfeldfoundation.org/news/more-hirschfelds-youve-ever-seen

An ad for the movie

Reblogged from http://www.imdb.com/

Poster

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Thelma Todd And Raquel Torres Photos In A Fan Magazine

Pictures from a foreign fan magazine of Thelma Todd as Venus from the 1927 First National production VAMPING VENUS and of Raquel Torres from one of her movies.

Jorge Finkielman: When they say that Thelma Todd is an MGM star, that is because they ( MGM ) actually distributed the First National productions in Latin America.

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VAMPING VENUS Photo

Thelma Todd as Venus in VAMPING VENUS.

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VAMPING VENUS Photo

Joe Bonomo and Thelma Todd in a publicity photo for VAMPING VENUS.

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Fan Magazine Photo

EU SEI TUDO, April, 1930, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Special thanks to Jorge Finkielman for providing us with this photo.

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VAMPING VENUS Photo

Thelma Todd as Venus in VAMPING VENUS ( 1928 ).

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VAMPING VENUS Photo

VAMPING VENUS was a 1928 comedy that was produced by First National. Here is a picture from this movie with Thelma Todd as Venus, with Louise Fazenda.

Thanks go to Jorge Finkielman for sending us this picture.




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LE FILM COMPLET

Here is the March 3, 1931 issue of LE FILM COMPLET, a French magazine. This issue has a picture of Thelma Todd on the cover: someone has noted that the picture is from the movie VAMPING VENUS and put the year for it as 1928.

A picture of Marie Prevost is mentioned, but we don't have a copy of it here.




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VAMPING VENUS Photos

VAMPING VENUS was a 1928 silent movie with Thelma Todd as Venus.

 

 

 

 

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Thelma Todd In The Fan Magazines

Some ads and some pictures from vintage fan magazines.




EXHIBITOR'S HERALD AND MOVING PICTURE WORLD March 31, 1928

 

 

THE FILM DAILY May 20, 1928

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBITOR'S HERALD AND MOVING PICTURE WORLD Apr.-June 1929

SCREENLAND, Nov 1928-Apr. 1929

PICTURE PLAY Sept 1927-Feb 1928

PICTURE PLAY, Mar.-July 1929

PICTURE PLAY, July- Dec. 1930

A number of pictures from the movie FOLLOW THROUGH here, including one of Thelma Todd as Cleopatra.

 

 

 

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VAMPING VENUS

Thelma Todd in VAMPING VENUS.

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VAMPING VENUS Photos

More VAMPING VENUS photos.

 

 

With Charley Murray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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VAMPING VENUS Photo

Thelma Todd as Venus in VAMPING VENUS.

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VAMPING VENUS Photo

VAMPING VENUS was a fantasy where the principles started out in the modern era and then found themselves in ancient Greece in a dream sequence. This publicity picture shows Thelma Todd with a measuring tape around her neck because it is part of a publicity campaign which compared her measurements to those of an ancient Greek statue of Venus.

Again we see where a preexisting picture of Thelma Todd had her name crossed off the back and replaced with "Alison Lloyd" because she used that name in CORSAIR, only to have that name crossed out in turn to be replaced by the original.




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VAMPING VENUS

Another publicity photo from the silent era, this one is from the movie VAMPING VENUS and has the name and date written on the back.

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VAMPING VENUS Herald

Here is a herald for the movie VAMPING VENUS.

 

 

 

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IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME AKA VAMPING VENUS - FILM DAILY

This is a news item from FILM DAILY, January 9, 1928.

 

IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME would eventually be released as VAMPING VENUS. Thelma Todd played Venus and Joe Bonomo played Hercules in a story which had both modern and ancient settings.

 

 

This item comes from the lower left hand side of this page.  

VAMPING VENUS:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019520/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/02/vamping-venus-and-american-venus.html









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VAMPING VENUS Photos

Thelma Todd played Venus in the movie VAMPING VENUS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VAMPING VENUS had both "modern" and "ancient" settings. Here we see Thelma Todd and Charlie Murray in the modern period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here we see Thelma Todd and Charlie Murray in the ancient period.

Charlie Murray lends Thelma a hand.

 

 

 

 

 

With Joe Bonomo, who played Hercules.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A related photo from 1930, where Kay Kamen signed as being with Thelma Todd "The Vamping Venus".

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