Thelma Todd
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American film actress (1906-1935) known as "The Ice Cream Blonde" who appeared in over 100 films in the late silent and early sound era. She starred in comedies with the Marx Brothers (Horse Feathers, Monkey Business), Buster Keaton (Speak Easily), and Laurel and Hardy, as well as her own series of two-reel comedies with ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly. Her death from carbon monoxide poisoning in 1935 at age 29 remains one of Hollywood's most enduring unsolved mysteries.
Acted In
Comedy
A Buster Keaton sound comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick for MGM, co-starring Jimmy Durante and Thelma Todd. Keaton plays a sheltered professor who inherits a fortune and, believing he has only months to live, joins a traveling musical show to experience life. Durante plays the show's manager, and Todd is the performer who catches the professor's eye. The film pairs Keaton's deadpan physical comedy with Durante's manic energy, an MGM attempt to replicate the comedy-duo formula. While Keaton's creative control was limited under MGM, the film features some fine physical sequences and the contrast between the two comedians' styles is genuinely funny. The film is in the public domain.
Comedy
Speak Easily
1932 - as Patsy
Comedy
Oliver Hardy invites Stan Laurel over for a home-cooked meal, but the attempt to use Mrs. Hardy's new kitchen leads to culinary disaster, a destroyed apartment, and a run-in with their neighbor. The first all-talking Laurel and Hardy comedy, directed by Lewis R. Foster and produced by Hal Roach. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Comedy
Unaccustomed as We Are
1929 - as Mrs. Kennedy