Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd

Born: July 29, 1906
Died: December 16, 1935
in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
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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.

Movies for Thelma Todd...

Title: Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 4, 2016
Type: TV
Hosts Ryan & Shane discuss mysteries surrounding notorious unsolved crimes.
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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Title: Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Character: (Archival Footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.
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Yesterday and Today
Title: Yesterday and Today
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 2, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
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. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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The Bohemian Girl
Title: The Bohemian Girl
Character: Gypsy Queen's Daughter
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
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An All American Toothache
Title: An All American Toothache
Character: Thelma Alice Todd
Released: January 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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Top Flat
Title: Top Flat
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: December 21, 1935
Type: Movie
When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
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Hot Money
Title: Hot Money
Character: Miss Thelma Todd
Released: November 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.
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Twin Triplets
Title: Twin Triplets
Character: Thelma
Released: October 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.
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Two for Tonight
Title: Two for Tonight
Character: Lilly
Released: September 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
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Slightly Static
Title: Slightly Static
Character: Thelma
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Mabel Kane
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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The Misses Stooge
Title: The Misses Stooge
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
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The Tin Man
Title: The Tin Man
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
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. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.
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Sing Sister Sing
Title: Sing Sister Sing
Character: Thelma
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
At a residence hotel, Patsy is moving in with Thelma. Thelma has prepared some rules, including singing whenever one feels quarrelsome or angry. Although Thelma tells Patsy that they'll share everything, there's precious little closet or drawer space for Patsy's clothes, little room to maneuver around Thelma in the bathroom, and then a sleepless night for Patsy when Thelma goes sleepwalking. Can they share and share alike, or will Patsy keep on singing?
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Treasure Blues
Title: Treasure Blues
Character: Thelma
Released: January 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
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Bum Voyage
Title: Bum Voyage
Character: Thelma
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Judy Nelson
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Done in Oil
Title: Done in Oil
Character: Thelma Todd aka Mlle. La Todd
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
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Opened by Mistake
Title: Opened by Mistake
Character: Thelma
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
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Take the Stand
Title: Take the Stand
Character: Miss Sally Oxford
Released: August 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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One-Horse Farmers
Title: One-Horse Farmers
Character: Thelma
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
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Three Chumps Ahead
Title: Three Chumps Ahead
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: July 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Archie, a rich man with yachts and a British accent. Patsy isn't impressed and less so when Archie comes calling. She does her best to sink the romance, making noise while the lovers talk and offering Limburger cheese sandwiches. In desperation, Archie calls his brother Benny, who's a sailor, and asks him to keep Patsy company. After a series of mishaps, they end up at a saloon where Patsy orders everything on the menu. Who's going to have to pay?
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Title: Cockeyed Cavaliers
Character: Lady Genevieve
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
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I'll Be Suing You
Title: I'll Be Suing You
Character: Miss Todd
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
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Maid in Hollywood
Title: Maid in Hollywood
Character: Thelma
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
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Bottoms Up
Title: Bottoms Up
Character: Judith Marlowe
Released: April 12, 1934
Type: Movie
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. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
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Soup and Fish
Title: Soup and Fish
Character: Miss Thelma Todd
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
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. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?
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The Poor Rich
Title: The Poor Rich
Character: Gwendolyn Fetherstone
Released: February 25, 1934
Type: Movie
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. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
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Babes in the Goods
Title: Babes in the Goods
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Title: Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Character: Miss Amelia Frisby
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
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Palooka
Title: Palooka
Character: Trixie
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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Counsellor at Law
Title: Counsellor at Law
Character: Lillian La Rue
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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Air Fright
Title: Air Fright
Character: Thelma
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: The Baroness
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Gloria Duval
Released: November 23, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Backs to Nature
Title: Backs to Nature
Character: Thelma
Released: November 14, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls are going on a camping trip.
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You Made Me Love You
Title: You Made Me Love You
Character: Pamela Berne
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
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Beauty and the Bus
Title: Beauty and the Bus
Character: Thelma
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls win a car in a raffle.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Lois Cavanaugh
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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One Track Minds
Title: One Track Minds
Released: May 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
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The Devil's Brother
Title: The Devil's Brother
Character: Lady Pamela Rocburg
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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Cheating Blondes
Title: Cheating Blondes
Character: Anne Merrick / Elaine Manners
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
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The Bargain of the Century
Title: The Bargain of the Century
Character: Thelma
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
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Maids a la Mode
Title: Maids a la Mode
Character: Miss Todd
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
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Asleep in the Feet
Title: Asleep in the Feet
Character: Thelma
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
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Air Hostess
Title: Air Hostess
Character: Mrs. Sylvia C. Carleton
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
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Sneak Easily
Title: Sneak Easily
Character: Miss Thelma Todd - Attorney for the Defense
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Sunny De Lane
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Lola Del Mont
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
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The Soilers
Title: The Soilers
Character: Thelma
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Alum and Eve
Title: Alum and Eve
Character: Thelma
Released: September 24, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Klondike
Title: Klondike
Character: Klondike
Released: August 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had...
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Show Business
Title: Show Business
Character: Thelma
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
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Horse Feathers
Title: Horse Feathers
Character: Connie Bailey
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Speak Easily
Title: Speak Easily
Character: Eleanor Espere
Released: August 13, 1932
Type: Movie
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
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The Old Bull
Title: The Old Bull
Character: Thelma
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
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. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?
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Strictly Unreliable
Title: Strictly Unreliable
Character: Miss Thelma Todd
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
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This Is the Night
Title: This Is the Night
Character: Claire Mathewson
Released: April 8, 1932
Type: Movie
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. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Claire accompany them to Venice.
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Red Noses
Title: Red Noses
Character: Miss Todd
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
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The Nickel Nurser
Title: The Nickel Nurser
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
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The Big Timer
Title: The Big Timer
Character: Kay Mitchell
Released: March 10, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Sealskins
Title: Sealskins
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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On the Loose
Title: On the Loose
Character: Thelma
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
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. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
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Corsair
Title: Corsair
Character: Alison Corning
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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War Mamas
Title: War Mamas
Character: Thelma
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
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The Pajama Party
Title: The Pajama Party
Character: Thelma
Released: October 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: Lucille Briggs
Released: September 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
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Catch-As Catch-Can
Title: Catch-As Catch-Can
Character: Thelma
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
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Broadminded
Title: Broadminded
Character: Gertie Gardner
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
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Let's Do Things
Title: Let's Do Things
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Character: Iva Archer
Released: May 23, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Aloha
Title: Aloha
Character: Winifred Bradford
Released: April 26, 1931
Type: Movie
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
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Rough Seas
Title: Rough Seas
Character: Antoinette
Released: April 24, 1931
Type: Movie
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
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Love Fever
Title: Love Fever
Character: Thelma Todd
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
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The Hot Heiress
Title: The Hot Heiress
Character: Lola
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pip from Pittsburg
Title: The Pip from Pittsburg
Character: Thelma
Released: March 21, 1931
Type: Movie
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. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Caroline
Released: March 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A power company floods a sleepy Tennessee Valley for a dam to run a hydraulic power plant. Garry, a Northern engineer on the project, falls in love with Caroline, Colonel Bradford's adopted daughter.
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Chickens Come Home
Title: Chickens Come Home
Character: Mrs. Hardy
Released: February 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Lydia
Released: January 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
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No Limit
Title: No Limit
Character: Betty Royce
Released: January 15, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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High C's
Title: High C's
Character: Antoinette
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
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Another Fine Mess
Title: Another Fine Mess
Character: Lady Plumtree (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
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Looser Than Loose
Title: Looser Than Loose
Character: Thelma, Charley's Fiancee
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
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Dollar Dizzy
Title: Dollar Dizzy
Character: Thelma Todd (uncredited)
Released: October 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money. Charlie gets word that a rich uncle has died, leaving him millions. Attorneys advise him to repair to a resort and avoid gold diggers. Once there, word spreads among the single women, and several try to ensnare him. At first he's gullible, then he cottons on, so when Thelma, a wealthy young woman, mistakes him for a fortune hunter, he dismisses her as well. A manager's error puts Charlie and Thelma in the same suite, and both think the other is prospecting. A dressing gown, radio, bare feet, pistol, keyhole, fountain pen, bedcovers, and a suspicious hotel detective join the mix-up. But wait, was the inheritance a mistake?
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Follow Thru
Title: Follow Thru
Character: Mrs. Van Horn
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
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. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
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Her Man
Title: Her Man
Character: Nelly
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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The King
Title: The King
Character: The Queen
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
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. The queen catches him kissing her, her husband figures out that something fishy is going on, and the king tries his best to proceed with his plans for a night out. The queen contrives to keep him cuffed in the bedroom: king, queen, minister, and coquette end up in a game of musical beds. Will his royal highness get his night out?
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The Shrimp
Title: The Shrimp
Character: Jim's Girlfriend
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
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All Teed Up
Title: All Teed Up
Character: Thelma
Released: April 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.
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Whispering Whoopee
Title: Whispering Whoopee
Character: Miss Todd
Released: March 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
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The Fighting Parson
Title: The Fighting Parson
Character: The Blonde Dance Hall Girl
Released: February 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.
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The Real McCoy
Title: The Real McCoy
Character: Thelma
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
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The Head Guy
Title: The Head Guy
Character: The Star
Released: January 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
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Stepping Out
Title: Stepping Out
Character: Charley's Wife
Released: November 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
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Sky Boy
Title: Sky Boy
Released: October 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.
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Crazy Feet
Title: Crazy Feet
Character: Dancer
Released: September 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Charley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dance act, and makes a fiasco of it.
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Her Private Life
Title: Her Private Life
Character: Mrs. Leslie
Released: August 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
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Hotter Than Hot
Title: Hotter Than Hot
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
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Look out Below
Title: Look out Below
Character: Thelma
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A Educational short where Robert Graves plays Thelma Todd's jealous husband.
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Snappy Sneezer
Title: Snappy Sneezer
Character: Mary White
Released: July 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.
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Careers
Title: Careers
Character: Hortense
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
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. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
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The Bachelor Girl
Title: The Bachelor Girl
Character: Gladys
Released: May 20, 1929
Type: Movie
The Bachelor Girl
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Hurdy Gurdy
Title: Hurdy Gurdy
Character: Blondie
Released: May 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring. The tenants are a cross section of melting-pot culture: Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian dialetcs create a rich aural mix on the sound track. As small talk is exchanged among the residents of different floors, an off-camera hurdy-gurdy supplies an often ironic counter-point to the action
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Unaccustomed as We Are
Title: Unaccustomed as We Are
Character: Mrs. Kennedy
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
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House of Horror
Title: House of Horror
Character: Thelma
Released: April 28, 1929
Type: Movie
House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
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Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
Title: Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
Character: The Woman
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.
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Trial Marriage
Title: Trial Marriage
Character: Grace Logan
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a charity ball in a revealing costume, however, and he dissolves the contract, not knowing that she is with child. A year passes. Constance marries Oliver Mowbray, and Thorvald marries Constance's sister, Grace. Both couples are quite unhappy and later obtain divorces. Oliver and Grace go to Europe, and Constance and Thorvald are married in a civil ceremony, united by their love both for each other and for their child.
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Seven Footprints to Satan
Title: Seven Footprints to Satan
Character: Eve
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
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. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
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Naughty Baby
Title: Naughty Baby
Character: Bonnie Le Vonne
Released: December 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Haunted House
Title: The Haunted House
Character: The Nurse
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
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The Crash
Title: The Crash
Character: Daisy McQueen
Released: October 7, 1928
Type: Movie
The Crash (1928)
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Heart to Heart
Title: Heart to Heart
Character: Ruby Boyd
Released: July 22, 1928
Type: Movie
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. Arriving by train a few days earlier than she planned, Ellen is mistaken for Mrs. Arden, a seamstress of doubtful repute from a neighboring town. She carries on the deception for fun when her nearsighted Aunt Katie and others believe she is Mrs. Arden. Phil, her old sweetheart, recognizes her, however, and shows her his new invention, a corkscrew that turns itself--a failure because of prohibition. Ellen leaves, having heard how much store is set on her coming; she returns on the proper train, elaborately made up as Princess Delatorre, and the big reception takes place as planned. Then she and Phil return to Italy, where they expect the corkscrew to be a success.
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Vamping Venus
Title: Vamping Venus
Character: Madame Vanezlos the Dancer / Venus
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head.
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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Phyllis
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
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.
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The Gay Defender
Title: The Gay Defender
Character: Ruth Ainsworth
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
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.
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The Shield of Honor
Title: The Shield of Honor
Character: Rose aka Flora Fisher
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
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Nevada
Title: Nevada
Character: Hettie Ide
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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. The villainous foreman leaks a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again.
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Fireman, Save My Child
Title: Fireman, Save My Child
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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.
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Rubber Heels
Title: Rubber Heels
Character: Princess Aline
Released: June 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
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God Gave Me Twenty Cents
Title: God Gave Me Twenty Cents
Character: Dance-Hall Girl (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1926
Type: Movie
The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Lorraine Lane
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
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. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.