The best Thelma Todd’s comedy movies

Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd

29/07/1906- 16/12/1935
Today we present the best Thelma Todd’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Thelma Todd’s movies.
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Monkey Business

Monkey Business
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 19/09/1931
  • Character: Lucille Briggs
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/11/1930
  • Character: Lady Plumtree (uncredited)
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers
7.5/10
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

Chickens Come Home

Chickens Come Home
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/02/1931
  • Character: Mrs. Hardy
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

Speak Easily

Speak Easily
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/08/1932
  • Character: Eleanor Espere
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

The Bohemian Girl

The Bohemian Girl
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 14/02/1936
  • Character: Gypsy Queen's Daughter
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.

The Devil's Brother

The Devil's Brother
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/05/1933
  • Character: Lady Pamela Rocburg
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

Unaccustomed as We Are

Unaccustomed as We Are
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/05/1929
  • Character: Mrs. Kennedy
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.

This Is the Night

This Is the Night
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 08/04/1932
  • Character: Claire Mathewson
When Claire Mathewson's (Thelma Todd) husband Stephen (Cary Grant) comes back unexpectedly from the 1932 Summer Olympics, where he was supposed to compete in the javelin throw, he discovers the train tickets for a romantic Venice getaway she has planned with her lover Gerald (Roland Young). Gerald's friend Bunny (Charles Ruggles) lies and says that the tickets are actually for Gerald and his wife. With Stephen still suspicious, Gerald must find a fake wife to go to Venice with him. He tries to hire the actress Chou-Chou (Claire Dodd), but since her boyfriend is a jealous man, she gives the job to out-of-work Germaine (Lili Damita), who needs the 2000 franc fee to keep from starving. At first, Gerald thinks she is too demure, but she soon convinces him that she can pretend to be a glamorous wife.

Son of a Sailor

Son of a Sailor
5.8/10
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

Seven Footprints to Satan

Seven Footprints to Satan
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/01/1929
  • Character: Eve
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.

Fascinating Youth

Fascinating Youth
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/03/1926
  • Character: Lorraine Lane
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.

Bottoms Up

Bottoms Up
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/04/1934
  • Character: Judith Marlowe
Promoter "Smoothie" 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 matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.

On the Loose

On the Loose
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1931
  • Character: Thelma
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.

No Limit

No Limit
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/01/1931
  • Character: Betty Royce
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.

Crazy Feet

Crazy Feet
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/09/1929
  • Character: Dancer
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.

Palooka

Palooka
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/01/1934
  • Character: Trixie
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.

Broadminded

Broadminded
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/08/1931
  • Character: Gertie Gardner
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.

Whispering Whoopee

Whispering Whoopee
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/03/1930
  • Character: Miss Todd
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.

Babes in the Goods

Babes in the Goods
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/02/1934
  • Character: Thelma Todd
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.

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