Thelma Todd

Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. His... (imdb)

On a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. (imdb)

Adhering closely to Dashiel Hammett's story, sleazy detective Sam Spade seeks the whereabouts of a jewel encrusted statuette and his partner's cold-blooded killer, unaware the two quests may be related. Well received in its time, today it looks like a dress-rehearsal for John Huston's definitive version made ten years later. (imdb)

A melodrama about a small-town football hero attempting to prove that he is as ruthless as his rich girlfriend's father. (All Movie Guide)

Promoter Smoothe 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 matinee idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness. (imdb)

Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain. (imdb)

Two wannabe bandits are hired as servants by the real thing. (imdb)

Two pickpockets raise a stolen child, not realizing she's royalty. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money and decides that now he can afford to go out and enjoy life. He falls for a dancer in a bad stage show, and with his new money decides to buy the show and take it to Broadway. Will the Professor prove too nice to succeed in show business? Or will he triumph over bill-collectors, critics, and sexy vamp Eleanor Espere? (imdb)

Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways. (imdb)

Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame (Mae Busch) tries to blackmail him with a old photo ('just the same old apple-cheeked boy'). Stan's attempts to help Ollie keep the blackmailer at bay incur the wrath of the shrewish Mrs Laurel who takes her revenge with an axe. (imdb)

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage. (TCM.com)

Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick. (TCM.com)

Grant plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Thelma Todd, who in turn is the object of desire for Parisian millionaire Roland Young. To keep Grant from catching on, Young hires Lily Damita to pose as his wife. Later, Young arranges to catch Grant in a compromising situation with Damita, thus leaving the field clear for Todd. But when Grant falls for Damita, Young finds that he is genuinely jealous! (allmovie.com)

Oliver surprises his wife by bringing his pal, Stanley, home for dinner. After exploding at both men, Mrs. Hardy leaves them to fend for themselves. Mrs. Kennedy from across the hall tries to help them, which ends up being misunderstood by Mr. Kennedy, a jealous police officer! (imdb)

Ben Lyon plays an aspiring boxer in this pre-code drama. Cookie Bradford (Lyon) toils at a diner and works out at the gym while waiting for his big break. His one supporter is the gym owner's daughter, Honey (Constance Cummings). When her father dies suddenly, she decides to take over his business. The fighters, however, have no faith in a woman, and they all walk out on her -- except for Bradford. She begins coaching him and he starts winning fights. (allmovie.com)

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians. (imdb)

Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt. (imdb)

Bachelor Chester and his spinster sister, Louise, are summoned from Ohio by a "mystery man" who instructs them to visit their Uncle Abner in New York City. A miserly recluse, Abner lives in an old house where he has gathered a strange collection of people: Brown and his wife Gladys; two untrustworthy servants; the mystery man; and Thelma and Joe, two young people on the track of a missing diamond owned by Abner. (TCM)

A woman receives many ice deliveries over the course of one day, leading her neighbors to become suspicious.

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. (imdb)

He is one of the best riveters in the union, but he is still a day laborer. She comes from money, but when they saw each other, it was love at first sight. They date, they dance, they fall for each other. First, she had to say no to Clay, which was easy. Then she had to bring Hap to meet her parents, which was not easy. Hap is the wrong type, but he dislikes their lifestyle as much as they do his. But if it is to work, he will be the sole support of Juliette and he cares not for her money. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. The medical board take his medical license away from him. Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend on a flight to Alaska. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued and meets a man is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had... (imdb)

The girls, tired of being taken to Coney Island by all the local boys, meet up with two Englishmen who offer to take them on a date--to Coney Island. (imdb)

Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal. (imdb)

Nevada is a 1927 movie based upon a Zane Grey novel and starring Gary Cooper, Thelma Todd, and William Powell. This lavish Western film was remade in 1944 as an early Robert Mitchum B-picture, the only time Cooper and Mitchum played the same role. This movie still survives in a complete copy, but the films appearance is not the best, do probably to poor preservation, it's possible to make out scenes, but not as well as other highly restored silent films.

A Educational short where Robert Graves plays Thelma Todd's jealous husband. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood (Edward Everett Horton) and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood (Edna May Oliver) 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. (imdb)

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. (allmovie.com)

Quite a bit of stock footage accompany this aerial melodrama from Columbia, which was directed by low-budget action specialist Albert S. Rogell. Pretty TWA air hostess Kitty King (Evalyn Knapp) falls in love with and marries dashing stunt pilot Ted Hunter (James Murray), despite the young man's rather rough lifestyle. She willingly accepts his plans for building a new kind of airplane in Albuquerque, NM, but upon arrival there finds him in the arms of a haughty socialite (Thelma Todd). (allmovie.com)

A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison. (imdb)

Three apparent murders and a pair of imposters disrupt the lives of an engaged couple. (imdb)

On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble. (imdb)

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe. (imdb)

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.

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

The athletic carnivals sponsored by sports promoter Jim Hurley and his amusing henchman Nick are no longer popular. In an effort to revive public interest in wrestling, Hurley hires football star Bucky O'Neill, who has just graduated and needs money in order to marry Joan Allen. Although Bucky honestly believes that he knows how to wrestle, his bouts are fixed by Hurley, who is using the athlete's popularity and well-known name to make money. (tcm.com)

Based on a stage play by C. Stafford Dickens. Neil Hamilton stars as Peter Fedor, a stage actor who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Alexis of Kordovia (also Neil Hamilton). Getting into a fight with the hotheaded Alexis, Peter gives the prince a royal shiner. Impressed by his courage, the Queen Mother orders Peter to impersonate Alexis, who has announced that he will give up his throne if he is forced to marry the contentious Princess Katerina.

The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers. (imdb)

A smooth-talking sailor looking for a quick date meets the granddaughter of an admiral and finds himself in a house full of top Navy officers, along with a couple of spies interested in plans for a new robot-controlled flight system. (imdb)

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer. (imdb)

Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town. (imdb)

Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town. (imdb)

Thelma invites Charley to play golf at her father's exclusive country club. (imdb)

Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl. (imdb)

Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub. (imdb)

ZaSu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight. (imdb)

An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing. (imdb)

The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight. (imdb)

The girls are going on a camping trip. (imdb)

The girls win a car in a raffle. (imdb)

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

The girls encounter a runaway lion while stranded out in the country. (imdb)

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. Several mishaps later, Thelma leaves for the shoot, annoyed at her clumsy pal. Deaf to criticism and dismissal, Patsy follows, arriving in time to make a shambles of her best-friend's one chance at success. (imdb)

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? (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.

Patsy and her boyfriend come to visit Thelma in her penthouse apartment, where she works as a maid. (imdb)

During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers. (imdb)

A wealthy man wants his three free-spending daughters, who are in their twenties, to learn fiscal discipline. An attorney suggests that Charley, an efficiency expert, move in and provide guidance. The young women play a trick on the stiff-necked Charley by having Thelma, one of the sisters, switch places with Greta, their garboesque maid. Greta plays her part well, vamping and flirting with Charley, to the chagrin of her husband, the butler. (imdb)

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days. (imdb)

Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.

Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.

Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.

Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.

Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.

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.

Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money.

Charles is a doughboy in France; for him, war is another opportunity to sing in a quartet. He falls for Antoinette, a local bar maid. She likes him too. She encourages him to study, so he does and becomes a sergeant. But, his love life and musical career are interrupted by shooting, trench warfare, and Charlie's continual run-ins with a cranky lieutenant. A crisis befalls Charlie when the quartet's tenor is shot in the throat.

Patsy is coerced into faking a lost leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.

Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs their newest weapon, an airplane, to help smash the diamond theft ring.

Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.

Charley falls in love with Thelma, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.

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.

Charley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife.

The girls buy a country home that turns out to be a sand trap.

Patsy inherits a diving suit and a map, so she takes Thelma and a drunken sea captain-turned-plumber on a treasure hunt.

Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.

Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.

Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.