Thelma Todd
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Thelma Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress who was sometimes referred to as "The Ice Cream Blonde" or even "Hot Toddy."
She is best known for her comedic roles in films including Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and a handful of Charley Chase's short comedies, appearing in around 120 feature films and shorts between 1926 and 1935.
Speak Easily co-starred Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily.
She appeared in several Wheeler and Woolsey, Laurel, and Hardy films, the last of which (The Bohemian Girl) featured her in a role that was truncated by her mysterious death in 1935 at the age of 29.
Early life
Todd was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to John Shaw Todd, an Irish settlers, later, a street manager, an alderman, and Lawrence's commissioner of health and charities in 1912 and Alice Elizabeth Edwards, an immigrant from Canada. She had an older brother, William, who died in a tragic accident in 1910. She was a bright and fruitful student. After graduating from high school in 1923, she enrolled at the Lowell Normal School (now University of Massachusetts, Lowell). She earned money as a student and attracted the attention of Elks Lodge 65, who was crowned 1925 Miss Massachusetts and captured the title of 1925 Miss Massachusetts. When she was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout, she was discovered representing her home state. At a time when Paramount Studios was training would-bectors in acting, diction, athletics, and manners, she was given a slot at the Paramount Players School in Astoria, Queens, New York City. Of the 16 members of her crew, only Charles "Buddy" Rogers made it to Hollywood. Todd began working at Hal Roach Studios in 1929.
Personal life
Todd briefly married Pat DiCiccio, who allegedly had ties to the mob. Todd's relationship was turbulent, with DiCiccio being extremely personal to him, resulting in her divorce and changing her name to only leaving him $1, so she couldn't contest it and try to get more.
Career
Todd appeared in a number of supporting roles that made full use of her beauty, but gave her no opportunity to act during the silent film period. When producer Hal Roach signed her to appear with comedy actors such as Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy, she was able to expand her roles with the advent of the talkies.
Roach starred Todd in her own series of 17-to-27-minute slapstick comedy shorts in 1931. Roach and Todd teamed up for 17 shorts on "Let's do Things" (June 1931) to "One Track Minds" (May 1933). Patsy Kelly, who appeared with Todd in 21 shorts from "Beauty and the Bus" (September 1933), was replaced by Pittsy Kelly, from "Beauty and the Bus" (January 1936). Todd is often depicted as a mature working girl doing her best to stay poised and charming amid a slew of problems and her ditzy sidekick's uffu's antics.
Todd appeared in Corsair, a Roland West film in which she became intimately involved in 1931.
Todd became well-known as a good film actress, and Roach loaned her to other studios to perform alongside Wheeler & Woolsey, Buster Keaton, Joe E. Brown, and the Marx Brothers. She has also appeared in dramas, such as the original 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon starring Risan Cortez as Sam Spade, where she appeared in Miles Archer's treacherous widow. In her career, she appeared in about 120 feature films and shorts.
Todd continued her short-subject series into 1935 and was included in the full-length Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl. It was her last work before she died at the age of 29. Roach had shot all of her scenes but was afraid of negative publicity. Todd's dialogue was deleted from the show, and she was limited to one musical number only.
Todd opened in August 1934, as the Castellammare housing tract business block was developed by architect Mark Daniels, and the Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe, 17575 Pacific Coast Highway, Castellammare, Los Angeles. The restaurant was on the ground floor of the building; on the second floor, Todd and West lived in adjoining ocean-view apartments, with just a sliding wooden door separating their bedrooms. Parties were held in Joya's, the third floor, hexagonally shaped; for West's ex-wife Jewel Carmen; It attracted a large number of celebrities as well as many visitors.