Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd, the Ice Cream Blonde, leaves me both charmed and saddened. In barely nine years she appeared in roughly 120 films and shorts, trading wit with the Marx Brothers and ZaSu Pitts during Hollywood's early golden age. A girl from Lawrence, Massachusetts who became a comic queen of the screen, only to die mysteriously at 29. I keep returning to how much talent was compressed into so short a life, and how a Walk of Fame star can honor but never replace what was lost. For me she embodies the bittersweet glamour of that era, a luminous smile worth remembering.

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Name (English)

Thelma Todd

Name (Japanese)

セルマ・トッド

Reading

せるま・とっど

Born

July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935

Origin

Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

University

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma%20Todd
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271146

Tags

• Massachusetts
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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