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Thelma Todd
29 July 1905
Thelma Todd played in 12 movies in the Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Comedy, Short, Music, Adventure, Romance, Sport, Musical genres.
Thelma Todd got succeed with average imdb rating 6.7.
Thelma Todd was born on July 29, 1905, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, an industrial city within a mile of the New Hampshire state family. She was a lovely child with good academic tendencies, so much so that she pronounced early on to become a school-ma'm. After high school she went on to college, but at her mother's insistence entered several handsomeness contests (seemingly her mamma wanted her to be more than nothing but a "schoolmarm"). Thelma was so successful in these endeavors that she enter... ed on the delineate and won the title of "Miss Massachusetts" in 1925 and went on to the "Virgin America" pageant. Although she didn't win, the display afforded her a chance to be seen been via gift scouts looking for fresh new faces to showcase in films. She began appearing in rhyme- and two-reel shorts, mostly comedy, which showcased her razor-sharp comic timing and aptitude allowing for regarding physical comedy (unique in such a beautiful lady). She had been making shorts seeking 'Hal Roach (I)' (qv) when she was signed to Chief Pictures. Her first film - at 21 years of age - was as Lorraine Lane in 1927's _Fascinating Laddie (1926)_ (qv), a fresh comedy, which was Dominant's showcase vehicle for its new stars. Thelma received stripling billing in another pic that year, _Immortal Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926)_ (qv). The next year she starred with 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv) and 'William Powell (I)' (qv) in the western _Nevada (1927)_ (qv). That year also saw her in three more films, with _The Gay Defender (1927)_ (qv) being the most notable. It starred 'Richard Dix (I)' (qv) in the place of a staff falsely accused of murder. As the 1920s closed, Thelma began getting parts in more and more films. In 1928 and 1929 only she was featured in 20 pictures, and not just comedies--she also did dramas and gothic and horror films. Dissimilar to sundry silent-days stars whose voices didn't fit their image or screen persona, Thelma's did. She had a spirited, breezy, understandable voice with a pleasant trace of a somewhat aristocratic, but not uppish, Strange England accent, and easily made the mutation to common-sense films. In 1930 she added 14 more pictures to her continue, with _Dollar Dizzy (1930)_ (qv) and _Follow Thru (1930)_ (qv) being the most notable. The latter was a euphonious with Thelma playing a rival to 'Nancy Carroll (I)' (qv) destined for the affections of 'Buddy Rogers' (qv). It was a blow-office hit, as was the point formation on which it was based. The following year Thelma appeared in 14 more films, among them _Let's Do Things (1931)_ (qv), _Influence Easily (1932)_ (qv), _The Old Bull (1932)_ (qv) and _On the Loose (1931)_ (qv). Her most eminent picture that year, however, was the Marx Brothers farce _Monkey Partnership (1931)_ (qv). While critics gave the coat hybrid reviews, the clientele loved it. In 1932 Thelma appeared in another Marx Brothers peel directed by 'Norman Z. McLeod' (qv), _Horse Feathers (1932)_ (qv). She also starred in _This Is the Night (1932)_ (qv), a money-making veil which featured 'Cary Allowance' (qv) in his anything else big role. In 1934 Thelma made 16 features, but her pursuit would soon soon come to a grinding halt. In 1935 she appeared in such films as _Look-alike Triplets (1935)_ (qv) and _The Misses Stooge (1935)_ (qv), all showcasing her considerable comic talents. She also proved to be a savvy businesswoman with the crevice of "Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe", a nightclub/restaurant that catered to show business people. It also, unfortunately, attracted some shady underworld types as well, and there were rumors that they were trying to take over and beyond her lodge and dislike it as a gambling establishment in order to milk the affluent Hollywood crowd. According to these stories, Thelma and her boyfriend, guide 'Roland West' (qv), wouldn't sell their establishment right away they found out-moded what the gangsters had in do not think twice about, thereby incurring the enmity of people it was not a good fantasy to appropriate for enemies of. Whether the stories were true or not, on December 16, 1935, Thelma was build dead in her transport, in her garage, in Los Angeles. Her death was ruled a suicide due to carbon monoxide poisoning. She was only 30 years old. At the time, as today, many felt that her obliteration was in fact a do in connected to the goings-on at her alliance, a theory that was lent credence nigh the fact that no one who knew her had ever seen her depressed or morose enough to the point of being worried about her committing suicide. Another factor that aroused suspicion was that her termination was given a cursory questioning away the - at the one of these days - notoriously warp Los Angeles County Partition Attorney's Office and the the actuality was fast and unceremoniously closed. Her undoing has remained a controversial one disinterested to this day. Three films she made in front of her death weren't released until the following year: _Hot Ready money (1936)_ (qv), _All-American Toothache (1936)_ (qv), and _The Bohemian Lass (1936)_ (qv). The latter saw her somewhat profitable role conclude down so much that she was barely glimpsed in the artwork. Thelma had made an dazzling 115 films in such a short pursuit, and her stunner and facility would no doubt have bewitched her right to the top if it hadn't been for her untimely demise.Read more Less
