Showing posts with label Thelma Todd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thelma Todd. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2015

THE ICE CREAM BLONDE by Michelle Morgan

 

The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd

 

  AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR AND A BOOK GIVEAWAY

 
Nearly 80 years ago, comedienne Thelma Todd, co-star to the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, and a former Miss Massachusetts (1925), was found dead at age 29 in her car inside the Pacific Palisades garage where she kept it. While there was never any question that Todd died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, there has been, ever since, much speculation on how and why she ended up in her car in a garage with its doors firmly shut.