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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 29, 1906
Died
December 16, 1935
Place of Birth
Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Alison Loyd
- Тельма Тодд
- Thelma Alice Todd
- Hot Toddy
- The Ice Cream Blonde
Thelma Todd
0.4 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known For
8.1
Self (archive footage)
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
2016
2.0
Self (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
2003
4.1
Self (archive footage)
Death Scenes
1989
0.0
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
0.0
(archive footage)
Yesterday and Today
1953
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
6.2
Gypsy Queen's Daughter
The Bohemian Girl
1936
🎬
0.0
Thelma Alice Todd
An All American Toothache
1936
0.0
Thelma Todd
Top Flat
1935
🎬
0.0
Miss Thelma Todd
Hot Money
1935
Credits
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
as Self (archive footage)
2016
8.1
Murders of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2003
2.0
Death Scenes
as Self (archive footage)
1989
4.1
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
0.0
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
0.0
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
0.0
The Bohemian Girl
as Gypsy Queen's Daughter
1936
6.2
🎬
An All American Toothache
as Thelma Alice Todd
1936
0.0
Top Flat
as Thelma Todd
1935
0.0
🎬
Hot Money
as Miss Thelma Todd
1935
0.0
Twin Triplets
as Thelma
1935
0.0
Two for Tonight
as Lilly
1935
6.5
Slightly Static
as Thelma
1935
0.0
After the Dance
as Mabel Kane
1935
6.0
The Misses Stooge
as Thelma Todd
1935
0.0
The Tin Man
as Thelma Todd
1935
7.0
Sing Sister Sing
as Thelma
1935
6.0
Treasure Blues
as Thelma
1935
0.0
Bum Voyage
as Thelma
1934
6.0
Lightning Strikes Twice
as Judy Nelson
1934
4.7
Done in Oil
as Thelma Todd aka Mlle. La Todd
1934
0.0
🎬
Opened by Mistake
as Thelma
1934
0.0
Take the Stand
as Miss Sally Oxford
1934
4.7
🎬
One-Horse Farmers
as Thelma
1934
0.0
Three Chumps Ahead
as Thelma Todd
1934
0.0
Cockeyed Cavaliers
as Lady Genevieve
1934
5.3
🎬
I'll Be Suing You
as Miss Todd
1934
0.0
Maid in Hollywood
as Thelma
1934
0.0
Bottoms Up
as Judith Marlowe
1934
4.8
Soup and Fish
as Miss Thelma Todd
1934
0.0
The Poor Rich
as Gwendolyn Fetherstone
1934
0.0
Babes in the Goods
as Thelma Todd
1934
9.0
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
as Miss Amelia Frisby
1934
6.5
Palooka
as Trixie
1934
3.0
Counsellor at Law
as Lillian La Rue
1933
6.4
Air Fright
as Thelma
1933
5.5
Son of a Sailor
as The Baroness
1933
5.0
Sitting Pretty
as Gloria Duval
1933
7.5
Backs to Nature
as Thelma
1933
5.0
You Made Me Love You
as Pamela Berne
1933
6.9
Beauty and the Bus
as Thelma
1933
0.0
Mary Stevens, M.D.
as Lois Cavanaugh
1933
5.9
One Track Minds
as Thelma Todd
1933
0.0
The Devil's Brother
as Lady Pamela Rocburg
1933
6.7
Cheating Blondes
as Anne Merrick / Elaine Manners
1933
4.7
The Bargain of the Century
as Thelma
1933
1.3
Maids a la Mode
as Miss Todd
1933
1.0
Asleep in the Feet
as Thelma
1933
1.0
Air Hostess
as Mrs. Sylvia C. Carleton
1933
5.7
Sneak Easily
as Miss Thelma Todd - Attorney for the Defense
1932
0.0
Call Her Savage
as Sunny De Lane
1932
5.5
Deception
as Lola Del Mont
1932
6.0
The Soilers
as Thelma
1932
6.2
Alum and Eve
as Thelma
1932
6.3
Klondike
as Klondike
1932
4.7
Show Business
as Thelma
1932
6.0
Horse Feathers
as Connie Bailey
1932
6.9
Speak Easily
as Eleanor Espere
1932
5.6
The Old Bull
as Thelma
1932
3.0
Strictly Unreliable
as Miss Thelma Todd
1932
5.5
This Is the Night
as Claire Mathewson
1932
5.3
Red Noses
as Miss Todd
1932
7.0
The Nickel Nurser
as Thelma Todd
1932
1.0
The Big Timer
as Kay Mitchell
1932
3.7
Sealskins
as Thelma Todd
1932
5.5
On the Loose
as Thelma
1931
6.8
Corsair
as Alison Corning
1931
4.2
War Mamas
as Thelma
1931
0.0
The Pajama Party
as Thelma
1931
7.0
Monkey Business
as Lucille Briggs
1931
7.0
Catch-As Catch-Can
as Thelma
1931
1.0
Broadminded
as Gertie Gardner
1931
3.7
Let's Do Things
as Thelma Todd
1931
0.0
The Maltese Falcon
as Iva Archer
1931
6.3
Aloha
as Winifred Bradford
1931
0.0
Rough Seas
as Antoinette
1931
6.0
Love Fever
as Thelma Todd
1931
3.3
The Hot Heiress
as Lola
1931
5.3
The Pip from Pittsburg
as Thelma
1931
6.3
🎬
Swanee River
as Caroline
1931
0.0
Chickens Come Home
as Mrs. Hardy
1931
6.5
Command Performance
as Lydia
1931
4.1
No Limit
as Betty Royce
1931
5.8
High C's
as Antoinette
1930
2.8
Another Fine Mess
as Lady Plumtree (uncredited)
1930
6.8
Looser Than Loose
as Thelma, Charley's Fiancee
1930
4.0
Dollar Dizzy
as Thelma Todd
1930
6.0
Follow Thru
as Ruth Van Horn
1930
7.4
Her Man
as Nelly
1930
5.1
The King
as The Queen
1930
3.6
The Shrimp
as Jim's Girlfriend
1930
0.0
All Teed Up
as Thelma
1930
4.2
Whispering Whoopee
as Miss Todd
1930
5.9
The Fighting Parson
as The Blonde Dance Hall Girl
1930
0.0
The Real McCoy
as Thelma
1930
6.5
The Head Guy
as The Star
1930
3.3
Stepping Out
as Charley's Wife
1929
5.0
Sky Boy
1929
0.0
Crazy Feet
as Dancer
1929
5.5
Her Private Life
as Mrs. Leslie
1929
1.0
Hotter Than Hot
1929
0.0
🎬
Look out Below
as Thelma
1929
5.0
Snappy Sneezer
as Mary White
1929
6.5
Careers
as Hortense
1929
0.0
The Bachelor Girl
as Gladys
1929
0.0
Hurdy Gurdy
as Blondie
1929
0.0
Unaccustomed as We Are
as Mrs. Kennedy
1929
6.9
House of Horror
as Thelma
1929
0.0
Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
as The Woman
1929
0.0
Trial Marriage
as Grace Logan
1929
0.0
Seven Footprints to Satan
as Eve
1929
6.1
Naughty Baby
as Bonnie Le Vonne
1928
4.0
The Haunted House
as The Nurse
1928
0.0
The Crash
as Daisy McQueen
1928
0.0
Heart to Heart
as Ruby Boyd
1928
0.0
Vamping Venus
as Madame Vanezlos the Dancer / Venus
1928
0.0
The Noose
as Phyllis
1928
7.0
The Shield of Honor
as Rose aka Flora Fisher
1927
4.3
The Gay Defender
as Ruth Ainsworth
1927
0.0
Nevada
as Hettie Ide
1927
6.0
Fireman, Save My Child
as (uncredited)
1927
0.0
Rubber Heels
as Princess Aline
1927
0.0
God Gave Me Twenty Cents
as Dance-Hall Girl (uncredited)
1926
0.0
Fascinating Youth
as Lorraine Lane
1926
0.0