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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 134719" data-attributes="member: 7">Another: Thelma Todd, lauded as a great beauty and fine comedienne, is perhaps best-known today for her mysterious death back in 1935, when she was just 29. She acted primarily in slapstick comedies, making a name for herself, acting opposite famous faces in Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932) (with the Marx Brothers), and Speak Easily (1932; with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante). Her long-term affair with filmmaker Roland West resulted in her attempted rebranding as &quot;Alison Loyd&quot; for Corsair (1931), which was a box office dud. Producer Hal Roach paired her up with ZaSu Pitts in seventeen comedy shorts between 1931 and 1933, resulting in the emergence of female Laurel and Hardy-type outings. Her death in 1935 still leaves questions of murder, suicide, and accidental as causes to her demise. I became interested in Todd following my viewing of the 1991 made-for-TV biopic I have on DVD that stars Loni Anderson as Todd. [ATTACH=full]12685[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 134719, member: 7"] [FONT=Verdana]Another: [B]Thelma Todd[/B], lauded as a great beauty and fine comedienne, is perhaps best-known today for her mysterious death back in 1935, when she was just 29. She acted primarily in slapstick comedies, making a name for herself, acting opposite famous faces in [I]Monkey Business [/I](1931), [I]Horse Feathers [/I](1932) (with the Marx Brothers), and [I]Speak Easily[/I] (1932; with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante). Her long-term affair with filmmaker Roland West resulted in her attempted rebranding as "Alison Loyd" for [I]Corsair [/I](1931), which was a box office dud. Producer Hal Roach paired her up with ZaSu Pitts in seventeen comedy shorts between 1931 and 1933, resulting in the emergence of female Laurel and Hardy-type outings. Her death in 1935 still leaves questions of murder, suicide, and accidental as causes to her demise. I became interested in Todd following my viewing of the 1991 made-for-TV biopic I have on DVD that stars Loni Anderson as Todd. [ATTACH=full]12685[/ATTACH][/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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