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Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films such as Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily. She also had roles in Wheeler and Woolsey farces, several Laurel and Hardy films, the last of which (The Bohemian Girl) featured her in a part that was truncated by her suspicious death at the age of 29.
During the silent film era, Todd appeared in numerous supporting roles that made full use of her beauty but gave her little chance to act. With the advent of the talkies, Todd was given opportunity to expand her roles when producer Hal Roach signed her to appear with such comedy stars as Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
In 1931, Roach cast Todd in her own series of slapstick comedy shorts, running 17 to 27 minutes each. In an attempt to create a female version of Laurel and Hardy, Roach teamed Todd with ZaSu Pitts for 17 shorts, from "Let's do Things" (June 1931) through "One Track Minds" (May 1933). When Pitts left in 1933, she was replaced by Patsy Kelly, appearing with Todd in 21 shorts, from "Beauty and the Bus" (September 1933) through "An All American Toothache" (January 1936). These Roach shorts often cast Todd as a working girl having all sorts of problems, and trying her best to remain poised and charming despite the embarrassing antics of her sidekick.
Todd also appeared successfully in such dramas as the original 1931 film version of The Maltese Falcon starring Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, in which she played Miles Archer's treacherous widow. During her career she appeared in 119 films although many of these were short films, and was sometimes publicized as "The Ice Cream Blonde."
Todd continued her short-subject series through 1935, and was featured in the full-length Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl. This was her last film; she died after completing all of her scenes, but most of them were re-shot. Producer Roach deleted all of Todd's dialogue and limited her appearance to one musical number.
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Total trailers found: 125
26 January 1935
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
04 March 1933
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
18 March 1932
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
04 June 1932
Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn.
15 December 1934
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
01 April 1929
Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.
29 July 1929
Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.
10 December 1932
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
10 November 1934
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
07 September 1935
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
12 April 1934
Three smart film-flammers help a homeless little girl to love and happiness by making monkeys out of Hollywood's big movie moguls.
01 January 1942
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years.
03 May 1930
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
22 August 1931
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
11 April 1931
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
20 August 1932
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
13 May 1928
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
29 November 1933
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
01 August 1927
A once notorious gunfighter takes a respectable job on a ranch. "Nevada" is charged with protecting the ranch owner's pretty daughter, arousing the enmity of ranch foreman Clan Dillon, who is in love with the girl.
29 October 1932
Zasu and Thelma are working their way through college by selling magazine subscriptions. Finding little success going door-to-door, the pair decide to use their charms to sell to men at their places of work.
29 June 1934
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
14 February 1936
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
28 March 1931
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
06 February 1932
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
25 February 1934
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house.
06 June 1931
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
29 August 1932
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies.
01 August 1931
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery.
10 March 1929
Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him.
24 April 1931
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
05 May 1933
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
02 June 1929
In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted.
01 October 1990
HOLLYWOOD. Tinseltown. Land of the stars. A city where an actor can reach the greatest heights overnight - and descend just as rapidly.
21 September 1930
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
10 December 1927
Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs their newest weapon, an airplane, to help smash the diamond theft ring.
01 January 1992
One way or another, the Hollywood police have been kept busy with murders on their ground. There are numerous theories about the killings of Thelma Todd, Jack Healy (Three Stooges), Elizabeth Short, alias The Black Dahlia, Bugsy Siegal and Johnny Stompano.
08 March 1930
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
17 August 1929
Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
07 December 1934
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
19 August 1932
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
27 January 1929
Before a planned African expedition, Jim's fiancée Eve worries her father's guest plans to steal one of her father's rubies.
21 March 1931
Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad.
08 April 1932
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks.
26 January 1934
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
13 August 1932
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
10 March 1932
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
10 May 1929
A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring.
10 December 1927
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
23 May 1931
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
17 August 1929
A Educational short where Robert Graves plays Thelma Todd's jealous husband.
02 November 1929
Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
30 April 1932
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
30 March 1935
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything.
12 March 1932
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
21 January 1933
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
02 February 1934
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
30 March 1934
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count.
15 January 1933
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
23 December 1933
The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
03 October 1931
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
