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Thelma Todd is a Actor American born on 29 july 1906 at Lawrence (USA)

Thelma Todd

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Birth name Thelma Alice Todd
Nationality USA
Birth 29 july 1906 at Lawrence (USA)
Death 16 december 1935 (at 29 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)

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.

Best films

The Noose (1928)
(Actress)

Usually with

Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(7 films)
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
(6 films)
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
(6 films)
H. M. Walker
H. M. Walker
(5 films)
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Filmography of Thelma Todd (52 films)

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Actress

The Bohemian Girl, 1h11
Directed by James W. Horne, Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas, Buddy films, Operetta films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, Mae Busch, Antonio Moreno, Darla Hood
Roles Gypsy Queen's Daughter
Rating65% 3.2949153.2949153.2949153.2949153.294915
Laurel and Hardy are a hen-pecked pair of Gypsies in 18th-century Austria. When Oliver is out pickpocketing, fortune-telling or attending his zither lessons, his wife (Mae Busch), has an affair with Devilshoof (Antonio Moreno). A cruel nobleman, Count Arnheim, persecutes the Gypsies, who are forced to flee, but Devilshoof, in revenge for having been lashed by the count, kidnaps his daughter, Arline (Darla Hood), and Mrs. Hardy fools Hardy into thinking she is their daughter. She soon elopes with Devilshoof, and leaves Hardy holding the baby.
Bottoms Up
Bottoms Up (1934)
, 1h25
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Patricia Paterson, John Boles, Herbert Mundin, Thelma Todd, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Roles Judith Marlowe
Rating58% 2.906962.906962.906962.906962.90696
The film tells the story of a promoter who helps a Hollywood extra actress toward stardom, however she turns from him toward her leading man.
Hips, Hips, Hooray!, 1h8
Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Lee, True Eames Boardman
Roles Miss Amelia Frisby
Rating63% 3.195553.195553.195553.195553.19555
Todd stars as Amelia Frisby, the owner of a beauty supply business. Andy Williams (Wheeler) and Dr. Bob Dudley (Woolsey) convince her to hire them as salesman to promote her new flavored lipstick, and hilarity ensues. The film features Etting singing "Keep Romance Alive" and Bert Wheeler and Dorothy Lee singing "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.
Palooka
Palooka (1934)
, 1h26
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Jimmy Durante, Lupe Vélez, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Rambeau, Robert Armstrong, Thelma Todd
Roles Trixie
Rating59% 2.9904252.9904252.9904252.9904252.990425
Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme (Marjorie Rambeau) to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. But when a shady boxing manager (Jimmy Durante) discovers Joe's natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father's path of debauchery, much of it including the glamorous cabaret singer Nina Madero (Lupe Vélez). The film also stars William Cagney, the younger brother of actor James Cagney.
Air Hostess, 1h7
Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Evalyn Knapp, James Murray, Jane Darwell, J. M. Kerrigan, Thelma Todd
Roles Mrs. Sylvia C. Carleton
Rating58% 2.9110452.9110452.9110452.9110452.911045
In World War I, pilot Bob King is shot and killed in France. His friends Ted "Lucky" Hunter (James Murray) and Pa Kearns (J.M. Kerrigan) pledge to look after his daughter, Kitty (Evalyn Knapp). Years later, after the war, Kearns, now blind, works at an airport as an engine expert while Kitty is a TWA stewardess. Her father's friends still look after her as meddling chaperones.
Sitting Pretty, 1h25
Directed by Harry Joe Brown
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Thelma Todd, Gregory Ratoff, Lew Cody
Roles Gloria Duval
Rating63% 3.1943453.1943453.1943453.1943453.194345
Counsellor at Law, 1h22
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Thelma Todd, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas
Roles Lillian La Rue
Rating74% 3.7371753.7371753.7371753.7371753.737175
The story focuses on several days in a critical juncture in the life of George Simon, who rose from his humble roots in a poor Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become a shrewd, highly successful attorney. Earlier in his career, he allowed a guilty client to perjure himself on the witness stand because he believed the man could be rehabilitated if freed. Rival lawyer Francis Clark Baird has learned about the incident and is threatening to expose George, which will lead to his disbarment. The possibility of a public scandal horrifies his socialite wife Cora, who plans to flee to Europe with Roy Darwin. Devastated by his wife's infidelity, George is about to leap from the window of his office in the Empire State Building when his secretary Regina, who is in love with him, comes to his rescue.
The Devil's Brother, 1h30
Directed by Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Henry Armetta, James C. Morton
Roles Lady Pamela Rocburg
Rating70% 3.53993.53993.53993.53993.5399
In the early 18th century, the bandit Fra Diavolo returns to his camp in Northern Italy to tell his gang members about his encounter with Lord Rocburg and Lady Pamela. Disguised as the Marquis de San Marco, he rides with them in their carriage and charms Lady Pamela into telling him where she hides her jewels. He orders his thieves to ride to Rocburg's castle and steal his belongings and Pamela's jewels. Meanwhile, Stanlio and Ollio have also been robbed, whereupon Stanlio suggests to Ollio that they should become robbers themselves. After an unsuccessful attempt to rob a woodchopper, the duo encounters Fra Diavolo, who orders Stanlio to hang Ollio for impersonating him. Diavolo is then informed that his men have stolen Lady Pamela's jewels but have not brought the 500,000 francs hidden by Rocburg.
Mary Stevens, M.D., 1h12
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Thelma Todd, Harold Huber, Una O'Connor
Roles Lois Cavanaugh
Rating64% 3.2445453.2445453.2445453.2445453.244545
Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) et son ami d'enfance Don Andrews (Lyle Talbot) décrochent leur diplôme de médecin et décident d'ouvrir leurs cabinets médicaux respectifs dans le même immeuble.