|
Gypsy queen's daughter
|
1936
|
The final Thelma Todd-Patsy Kelly two-reel comedy All-American Toothache was a rather obvious farce in which Thelma...
|
|
1936
|
Based on an obscure stage comedy, the Paramount musical Two for Tonight stars Bing Crosby as would-be composer and playwright...
|
Lilly Bianca
|
1935
|
This mildly amusing two-reel comedy was released only a month before Thelma Todd's mysterious death. Todd and Patsy Kelly are...
|
|
1935
|
It's a dark and stormy night. The butler of a large mansion is annoyed by the howling of a cat. He fires a few gunshots at...
|
Judy Nelson
|
1935
|
In this tuneful crime drama, a falsely convicted man escapes from prison and hides out with a comely chorine. She discovers...
|
Mabel Kane
|
1935
|
Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing...
|
|
1934
|
This average two-reel comedy starring the team of Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly featured an encounter with Charles Gemora and...
|
|
1934
|
|
|
Lady Genevieve
|
1934
|
Directed by Hal Roach stalwart Gus Meins, this typical two-reel comedy starring the team of Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly...
|
|
1934
|
In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
|
|
1934
|
A story by Earl Derr Biggers, of Charlie Chan fame, was the springboard for the Monogram melodrama Take the Stand. An...
|
|
1934
|
In his only musical-comedy appearance, Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero's latest scam is to...
|
|
1934
|
|
|
Miss Frisbie
|
1934
|
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1934, the female answer to Laurel and Hardy, Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly, once again...
|
|
1934
|
|
|
|
1934
|
In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song....
|
Pamela Berne
|
1934
|
In their first two-reel comedy, the team of blonde, glamorous Thelma Todd and dowdy Patsy Kelly win an old jalopy in a...
|
|
1933
|
Having survived her encounter with the zany team of Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts in Show Business (1932), the elegant but...
|
|
1933
|
The two-reel comedy team of Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts play store clerks, who instead of delivering a couple of dresses to a...
|
|
1933
|
Directed by Hal Roach Studio comic Charlie Chase, this two-reeler is by many considered the best of the 16 Thelma Todd-ZaSu...
|
|
1933
|
In their final two-reel comedy, the team of blonde and vivacious Thelma Todd and dowdy and fluttery ZaSu Pitts go Hollywood...
|
|
1933
|
|
|
|
1933
|
Quite a bit of stock footage accompany this aerial melodrama from Columbia, which was directed by low-budget action...
|
|
1933
|
A typically pedestrian whodunit from low-budget entrepreneur Larry Darmour, Cheating Blondes delivered a lot less than the...
|
Anne Merrick,Elaine Manners
|
1933
|
|
|
Lola Del Mont
|
1933
|
Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
|
|
1933
|
Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
|
|
1933
|
In this melodrama, a female physician encounters professional and personal turmoil when she finds herself having an affair...
|
Lois Rising
|
1933
|
Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the...
|
The Baroness
|
1933
|
|
|
Gloria Duval
|
1933
|
Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
|
Eleanor Espere
|
1932
|
In this typically silly Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts comedy two-reeler, the girls go to a Turkish bath in order to rid themselves...
|
|
1932
|
In this Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts two-reel comedy, the girls explain away their speeding ticket with having to reach the...
|
|
1932
|
|
|
|
1932
|
In this classic two-reel comedy from the Hal Roach Studio, blonde Thelma Todd and plain-Jane ZaSu Pitts are depressed because...
|
|
1932
|
In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited...
|
Sunny De Lan
|
1932
|
Ben Lyon plays an aspiring boxer in this pre-code drama. Cookie Bradford (Lyon) toils at a diner and works out at the gym...
|
|
1932
|
Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks...
|
Klondike
|
1932
|
|
|
|
1932
|
Cary Grant made his feature film debut in 1932's This is the Night. Grant plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Thelma Todd,...
|
Claire
|
1932
|
If ever there was an archetypal Marx Brothers comedy, it was the team's 1932 offering Horse Feathers. Groucho Marx is cast as...
|
Connie Bailey
|
1932
|
Tall, slinky Anita Garvin took time out from menacing Laurel and Hardy to terrorize the female Stan and Ollie next door,...
|
|
1932
|
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a...
|
|
1932
|
In this classic two-reel comedy produced by Hal Roach, the zany team of Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts are serving on a jury...
|
|
1932
|
The first of three Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts two-reel comedies directed by former gag man George Marshall, Strictly Unreliable...
|
|
1932
|
Not only has Oliver Hardy established a successful business -- in fertilizer -- he has also decided to run for mayor. General...
|
|
1931
|
Two wives catch their husbands with other women and decide to take a vacation of their own in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
|
|
1931
|
In this comedy, a carefree carouser creates trouble for his cousin the chaperone as they go 'round the world. ~ Sandra...
|
|
1931
|
In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
|
|
1931
|
In their first of 16 comedy shorts for Hal Roach, blonde Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts go on a frenetic double date...
|
|
1931
|
If the 1931 cheapie Swanee River had a plot, one would never know it from the contemporary reviews. As near as can be...
|
|
1931
|
Class distinction rears its ugly head in this otherwise tuneful little musical from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz...
|
|
1931
|
Of interest mainly because of the talent involved, this film remains a tepid bootleg melodrama about a small-town football...
|
|
1931
|
In their third two-reel comedy for Hal Roach, the zany team of beautiful Thelma Todd and plain-Jane ZaSu Pitts find...
|
|
1931
|
This is deservedly one of Charley Chase's most popular two-reelers. Charley's pal (Carlton Griffin) tries to set him up on a...
|
|
1931
|
|
|
|
1931
|
In this Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts two-reel comedy, the girls are wartime spies assigned to seduce a couple of German officers....
|
|
1931
|
|
Lucille
|
1931
|
The second of 16 Thelma Todd-ZaSu Pitts comedy shorts for producer Hal Roach, this two-reeler proved one of the team's very...
|
|
1931
|
In this three-reel sequel to 1930's High C's comedian Charley Chase is shown once again as a soldier, released from the brig...
|
|
1931
|
|
|
|
1931
|
|
|
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1930
|
This Charley Chase talkie was expanded to three reels to include five songs (Chase had a nice singing voice). It's a WWI...
|
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1930
|
The 1930 Laurel & Hardy 3-reeler Another Fine Mess is a remake of the team's 1927 effort Duck Soup--which, in turn, was based...
|
|
1930
|
In this entry in the Charley Chase series, Charley falls in love with a beautiful country girl (Thelma Todd). In his zeal to...
|
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1930
|
This Harry Langdon two-reel comedy is set in a tough Western town. Harry rides into town, and is mistaken for "The Fighting...
|
|
1930
|
Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer...
|
|
1930
|
This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the...
|
|
1930
|
|
|
|
1929
|
Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
|
Grace
|
1929
|
Although the title of Laurel and Hardy's very first sound film is a joke on the phrase, "Unaccustomed as we are to public...
|
|
1929
|
In this curious film, a knickknack collector falls in love with the daughter of a jewel collector. When a rare stone is...
|
Eve
|
1929
|
Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady...
|
|
1929
|
The Naughty Baby in this late-silent opus is hat-check girl Rosie McGill, played by bubbly blonde Alice White. Taking a...
|
Bonnie Le Vonne
|
1929
|
This early sound-film only features three scenes with dialog as it tells the tale of an arrogant, egotistical salesman who...
|
Gladys
|
1929
|
|
|
|
1929
|
|
|
|
1929
|
This early talkie, set in French Indochina, centers around the conflict between a French magistrate's wife and his lecherous...
|
Hortense
|
1929
|
|
|
|
1928
|
This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached...
|
|
1928
|
|
|
Mme. Vanezlos/Venus
|
1928
|
Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
|
|
1928
|
The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook...
|
|
1928
|
|
|
|
1928
|
Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in...
|
Hettie Ide
|
1927
|
The freewheeling direction of Gregory LaCava helps to enliven the otherwise standard actioner The Gay Defender. Decked out...
|
Ruth Ainsworth
|
1927
|
|
|
|
1927
|
Shield of Honor is predicated on the fact that, in 1927, several big-city police departments were contemplating formation of...
|
|
1927
|
Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
|
|
1926
|
The scene is New Orleans, during Mardi Gras week. The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren (Jack Mulhall),...
|
|
1926
|