The Life and Death of Thelma Todd (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786465187)

American film favorite Thelma Todd was much more than the beautiful blonde of the 1930s who played opposite Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Todd's tragic death transformed her into an icon of Hollywood mystery: The photograph of the 29-year-old actress slumped in her luxurious Lincoln Phaeton shocked fans in 1935. How did she die? Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? This definitive biography covers a fascinating era in Hollywood history. In the course of his exhaustive research, the author interviewed Todd's cousins Bill and Edna Todd, as well as such friends and coworkers as Ida Lupino, Lina Basquette, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Granger, William Bakewell and Greg Blackton. Also examined is Hollywood's first major sex scandal of 1913, involving Jewel Carmen, the future spouse of director Roland West--the man Thelma Todd loved.

Author: William Donati
ISBN-10: 0786465182
ISBN-13: 9780786465187
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2012
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d