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The Ice Cream Blonde - The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd (Hardcover)
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The Ice Cream Blonde - The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd (Hardcover)
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A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers,
Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare
Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent films to
talkies. This authoritative new biography traces Todd’s life from
a vivacious little girl who tried to assuage her parents’ grief
over her brother’s death, to an aspiring teacher turned reluctant
beauty queen, to an outspoken movie starlet and restaurateur.
Increasingly disenchanted with Hollywood, in 1934 Todd opened
Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk CafÉ, a hot spot that attracted fans,
tourists, and celebrities. Despite success in film and business,
privately the beautiful actress was having a difficult
year–receiving disturbing threats from a stranger known as the
Ace and having her home ransacked–when she was found dead in a
garage near her cafÉ. An inquest concluded that her death,
at age just twenty-nine, was accidental, but in a thorough new
investigation that draws on interviews, photographs, documents, and
extortion notes–much of these not previously available to the
public–Michelle Morgan offers a compelling new theory, suggesting
the sequence of events on the night of her death and arguing what
many people have long suspected: that Thelma was murdered. But by
whom? The suspects include Thelma’s movie-director lover, her
would-be-gangster ex-husband, and the thugs who were pressuring her
to install gaming tables in her popular cafÉ–including a new,
never-before-named mobster. This fresh examination on the eightieth
anniversary of the star's death is sure to interest any fan of
Thelma Todd, of Hollywood's Golden Age, or of gripping
real-life murder mysteries.
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Imprint: |
Chicago Review Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2015 |
Authors: |
Michelle Morgan
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-61373-038-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-61373-038-1 |
Barcode: |
9781613730386 |
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