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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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29 November 1930
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
10 December 1932
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
12 April 1934
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol.
19 September 1931
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
20 April 1935
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
21 February 1931
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
08 March 1930
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
23 November 1933
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.
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.
28 November 1931
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
05 May 1933
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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.
22 July 1933
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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.
14 February 1936
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
15 January 1931
Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.
27 January 1929
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure.
26 September 1930
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up.
06 June 1931
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
14 November 1931
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
26 December 1931
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud.
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.
22 July 1928
Princess Delatorre, young and beautiful widow of an Italian scion of royalty, returns with her fortune to the small American town where she grew up as Ellen Gutherie.
29 January 1928
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
04 May 1929
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
29 August 1932
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies.
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.
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.
25 December 1933
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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.
11 April 1931
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
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.
12 October 1935
Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.
24 November 1932
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
01 August 1934
The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
12 March 1932
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
12 September 1935
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
29 June 1934
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
02 February 1934
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
15 November 1930
Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
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.
10 December 1927
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
03 October 1930
Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money.
01 August 1927
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false alarms whenever she needs some heavy lifting done so that she can get the responding firemen to do it.
22 August 1931
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
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.
20 August 1932
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
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.
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.
25 January 1936
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
21 December 1935
When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
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.
30 April 1932
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
01 February 1930
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
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 January 1933
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
