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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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26 January 1935
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
17 March 1926
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation.
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.
14 June 1930
The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with guns, drilling his soldiers, and dallying with the wife of a new minister.
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.
20 April 1935
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
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.
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.
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.
12 October 1935
Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.
20 August 1932
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
02 March 1935
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry.
13 May 1928
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
25 January 1936
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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.
24 September 1932
When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.
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.
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.
22 July 1933
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together.
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.
02 December 1953
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
13 August 1932
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
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.
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.
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.
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.
05 May 1933
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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.
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.
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.
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.
05 October 1934
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
23 December 1933
The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
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.
15 January 1933
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
