Thelma Todd
Also Known As: Alison Loyd, Тельма Тодд, Thelma Alice Todd, Hot Toddy, The Ice Cream Blonde
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 29, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 16, 1935
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Seven Footprints to Satan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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The Maltese Falcon
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-23
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Monkey Business
Overview: Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-19
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Horse Feathers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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Speak Easily
Overview: A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-13
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Yesterday and Today
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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God Gave Me Twenty Cents
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-20
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On the Loose
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Another Fine Mess
Overview: Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-29
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Chickens Come Home
Overview: Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-21
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Unaccustomed as We Are
Overview: Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
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The Bohemian Girl
Overview: Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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This Is the Night
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-08
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Air Hostess
Overview: A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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Corsair
Overview: A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-28
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Counsellor at Law
Overview: A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-25
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The Devil's Brother
Overview: Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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Call Her Savage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Overview: Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-29
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Nevada
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Overview: Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Her Man
Overview: A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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Klondike
Overview: 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...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-29
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Whispering Whoopee
Overview: Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-08
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Sitting Pretty
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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The Poor Rich
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-25
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Overview: A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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Broadminded
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The Hot Heiress
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Son of a Sailor
Overview: A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-29
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Two for Tonight
Overview: A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-12
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Rough Seas
Overview: On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-24
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The Big Timer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-10
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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High C's
Overview: The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-27
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No Limit
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
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Maid in Hollywood
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-19
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Top Flat
Overview: When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-21
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The Bargain of the Century
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-08
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Asleep in the Feet
Overview: The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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Sealskins
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-06
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Show Business
Overview: The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-20
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The Pip from Pittsburg
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-21
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The Tin Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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Follow Thru
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-26
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Catch-As Catch-Can
Overview: Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Sing Sister Sing
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-02
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Red Noses
Overview: Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-18
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Soup and Fish
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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The Real McCoy
Overview: Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Opened by Mistake
Overview: Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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Hot Money
Overview: A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-16
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Dollar Dizzy
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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One-Horse Farmers
Overview: The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-01
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Maids a la Mode
Overview: Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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Heart to Heart
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-22
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The Nickel Nurser
Overview: Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-12
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Backs to Nature
Overview: The girls are going on a camping trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-14
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Command Performance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-19
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Palooka
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Overview: Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Love Fever
Overview: An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-11
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The Fighting Parson
Overview: Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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The Shrimp
Overview: A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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The Head Guy
Overview: Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-11
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The King
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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War Mamas
Overview: During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-14
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The Pajama Party
Overview: After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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The Old Bull
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-04
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The Misses Stooge
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Twin Triplets
Overview: Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-12
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Three Chumps Ahead
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-14
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The Soilers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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Strictly Unreliable
Overview: Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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Treasure Blues
Overview: Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-26
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Sneak Easily
Overview: Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-10
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Slightly Static
Overview: Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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One Track Minds
Overview: Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-20
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I'll Be Suing You
Overview: Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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Beauty and the Bus
Overview: The girls win a car in a raffle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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Bum Voyage
Overview: The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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Done in Oil
Overview: Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Let's Do Things
Overview: Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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Babes in the Goods
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-10
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Air Fright
Overview: The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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Alum and Eve
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-24
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An All American Toothache
Overview: Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-25
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After the Dance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-25
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The Shield of Honor
Overview: Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-10
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Bottoms Up
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-12
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Hurdy Gurdy
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-10
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Cheating Blondes
Overview: A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-01
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Take the Stand
Overview: A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-07
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Looser Than Loose
Overview: Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
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You Made Me Love You
Overview: A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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The Noose
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-29
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All Teed Up
Overview: Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-16
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Aloha
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-26
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Snappy Sneezer
Overview: Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-29
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Look out Below
Overview: A Educational short where Robert Graves plays Thelma Todd's jealous husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
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Hotter Than Hot
Overview: Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
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House of Horror
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-28
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Naughty Baby
Overview: A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-16
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Careers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-02
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Fascinating Youth
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-17
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The Bachelor Girl
Overview: Joyce (Jacqueline Logan), a beautiful and efficient secretary, does her best to take in hand and reform shiftless stock clerk Jimmy (William Colllier, Jr.), with whom she is in love. Despite her tireless efforts, he continues on his downward path. They separate, only to meet a couple of years later, at which point he vows to make himself worthy of her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-20
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The Crash
Overview: The Crash (1928)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-07
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Trial Marriage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-10
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Crazy Feet
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-07
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Vamping Venus
Overview: A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-05-13
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Deception
Overview: Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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The Haunted House
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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Her Private Life
Overview: A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-25
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Rubber Heels
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-11
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Fireman, Save My Child
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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Swanee River
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-15
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The Gay Defender
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-10
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Sky Boy
Overview: Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-05
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Stepping Out
Overview: Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-02
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Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon
Overview: Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-01
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