Thelma Todd: The Ace of Hearts Stalker, Hollywood Mobsters, and the Mysterious Death of the Ice Cream Blonde
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English - November 29, 2023 08:06 - 37 minutes - ★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHistory True Crime lindsay lohan robin williams celebrity robert downey jr famous scandal crime jack nicholson heath ledger true crime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Thelma Todd was one of the great comediennes of the 1920s and ‘30s, working alongside Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Buster Keaton. She confronted a stalker on a dark corner of Hollywood Boulevard with just one dollar and a gun in her purse. She stood up to the mob when they tried to start a gambling den in the back room of the café she ran with her lover. She killed off her world-famous name in an attempt to give up comedy for dramatic acting. And then she herself was killed off…or was she? Thelma Todd’s death in 1935 at the age of 29 remains one of the great unsolved deaths of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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Thelma Todd was one of the great comediennes of the 1920s and ‘30s, working alongside Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Buster Keaton. She confronted a stalker on a dark corner of Hollywood Boulevard with just one dollar and a gun in her purse. She stood up to the mob when they tried to start a gambling den in the back room of the café she ran with her lover. She killed off her world-famous name in an attempt to give up comedy for dramatic acting. And then she herself was killed off…or was she? Thelma Todd’s death in 1935 at the age of 29 remains one of the great unsolved deaths of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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