The best Thelma Todd’s drama 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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The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
6.8/10
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.

Call Her Savage

Call Her Savage
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/11/1932
  • Character: Sunny De Lane
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.

Her Man

Her Man
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1930
  • Character: Nelly
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.

Careers

Careers
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/06/1929
  • Character: Hortense
In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.

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.

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.

Air Hostess

Air Hostess
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/01/1933
  • Character: Mrs. Sylvia C. Carleton
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.

After the Dance

After the Dance
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/06/1935
  • Character: Mabel Kane
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.

The Crash

The Crash
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1928
  • Character: Daisy McQueen
The Crash (1928)

Counsellor at Law

Counsellor at Law
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1933
  • Character: Lillian La Rue
Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.

Mary Stevens, M.D.

Mary Stevens, M.D.
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/07/1933
  • Character: Lois Cavanaugh
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.

The Noose

The Noose
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/01/1928
  • Character: Phyllis
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.

Deception

Deception
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/11/1932
  • Character: Lola Del Mont
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.

The Shield of Honor

The Shield of Honor
6.1/10
Can Neil Hamilton, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?

Klondike

Klondike
5.4/10
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had...

The Big Timer

The Big Timer
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/03/1932
  • Character: Kay Mitchell
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

Trial Marriage

Trial Marriage
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/03/1929
  • Character: Grace Logan
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 other and for their child.

You Made Me Love You

You Made Me Love You
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1933
  • Character: Pamela Berne
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

The Bachelor Girl

The Bachelor Girl
The Bachelor Girl

The Haunted House

The Haunted House
5/10
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.

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