The Life and Death of Thelma Todd |  | Author: William Donati
Publisher: McFarland
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 439,270
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 248
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 3.5 x 0.1
ISBN: 0786465182
EAN: 9780786465187
ASIN: 0786465182
Publication Date: January 5, 2012
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American film favorite Thelma Todd was much more than the beautiful blonde of the 1930s who played opposite Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Todd's tragic death transformed her into an icon of Hollywood mystery: The photograph of the 29-year-old actress slumped in her luxurious Lincoln Phaeton shocked fans in 1935. How did she die? Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? This definitive biography covers a fascinating era in Hollywood history. In the course of his exhaustive research, the author interviewed Todd's cousins Bill and Edna Todd, as well as such friends and coworkers as Ida Lupino, Lina Basquette, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Granger, William Bakewell and Greg Blackton. Also examined is Hollywood's first major sex scandal of 1913, involving Jewel Carmen, the future spouse of director Roland West--the man Thelma Todd loved.
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