Movies by Thelma Todd

After the Dance

After the Dance

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.

Top Flat

Top Flat

When Patsy criticises her poetry, Thelma ups and leaves for a better standard of living.

You Made Me Love You

You Made Me Love You

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

The King

The King

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. The queen contrives to keep him cuffed in the bedroom: king, queen, minister, and coquette end up in a game of musical beds. Will his royal highness get his night ...

Lightning Strikes Twice

Lightning Strikes Twice

An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.

Vamping Venus

Vamping Venus

A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.

Babes in the Goods

Babes in the Goods

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.

The Bachelor Girl

The Bachelor Girl

Joyce (Jacqueline Logan), a beautiful and efficient secretary, does her best to take in hand and reform shiftless stock clerk Jimmy (William Colllier, Jr.), with whom she is in love. Despite her tireless efforts, he continues on his downward path. They separate, only to meet a couple of years later, at which point he vows to make himself worthy of her.

Treasure Blues

Treasure Blues

Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.

The Pip from Pittsburg

The Pip from Pittsburg

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.

Hot Money

Hot Money

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.

Trial Marriage

Trial Marriage

Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a charity ball in a revealing costume, however, and he dissolves the contract, not knowing that she is with child. A year passes. Constance marries Oliver Mowbray, and Thorvald marries Constance's sister, Grace. Both couples are quite unhappy and later obtain divorces. Oliver and Grace go to Europe, and Constance and Thorvald are married in a civil ceremony, united by their love both for each othe...

The Hot Heiress

The Hot Heiress

Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.

Backs to Nature

Backs to Nature

The girls are going on a camping trip.

The Nickel Nurser

The Nickel Nurser

Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.

The Shield of Honor

The Shield of Honor

Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?

Let's Do Things

Let's Do Things

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

Son of a Sailor

Son of a Sailor

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

Her Private Life

Her Private Life

A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.

Sealskins

Sealskins

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.