eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 2a900 THELMA TODD/PATSY KELLY 8x10 still 1930s takes cigarette girl's tray & sells Patsy a pack! Date Sold 11/12/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Still (Learn More) Thelma Todd (nicknamed "The Ice Cream Blonde" and "Hot Toddy") was a beautiful actress, often in comedies, from 1926 until her death in 1935. She was a Miss America contestant who started making movies in the mid-1920s, and when sound movies started and it was discovered that she had a pleasant voice, she started appearing in dozens of movies, mostly romantic comedies; she appeared in two Marx Bros. movies, and opened a Hollywood restaurant. Some of her movies include: Monkey Business, Counsellor at Law, Horse Feathers, Love Business, and Chickens Come Home. After having appeared in over 100 movies, she died in her garage from carbon monoxide poisoning on December 16th, 1935. Though her death was ruled a suicide by police, rumors have persisted that her ex-husband had a hand in her death. Noted expert Richard Bann tells us that Hal Roach explained this to him in person saying that "Roland West evidently meant only to punish Thelma, and locked the garage so she couldn't leave, and that the carbon monoxide killed her". Of course it makes a more commercial story to sensationalize her death as murder instigated by the mob AND Patsy Kelly was an actress from the 1930s to the 1970s. She was in a series of comedies with Thelma Todd in the early 1930s that ended with Miss Todd's untimely death in 1935. Some of her movies include: Rosemary's Baby, The Naked Kiss, and Topper Returns Important Added Info: Note that this fun candid by J.B. Scott was taken at Hal Roach's 20th anniversary party, and playful Thelma Todd took the cigarette girl's tray from her and put it around her own neck, and pretended to sell Patsy Kelly a pack of cigarettes! It was all a set up for Modern Screen magazine. Condition: good. There is diagonal paper loss in the bottom right corner, but it mostly only affects a tiny portion of Todd's dress and the background next to her. Learn More about condition grades
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