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Thelma Todd

1906 - 1935

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Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress and businesswoman who carried the nicknames "The Ice Cream Blonde" and "Hot Toddy". Appearing in about 120 feature films and shorts between 1926 and 1935, she is remembered for her comedic roles opposite ZaSu Pitts, and in films such as Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and a number of Charley Chase's short comedies. She co-starred with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thelma Todd has received more than 1,482,700 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Thelma Todd is the 4,374th most popular actor (up from 4,610th in 2019), the 6,560th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,160th in 2019) and the 2,044th most popular American Actor.

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  • 25

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  • 2.05

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  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Thelma Todd ranks 4,374 out of 9,996Before her are Shawn Wayans, Oleg Anofriyev, César Évora, Lori Singer, Paul Dooley, and Jack Haley. After her are Lolita Flores, Aloma Wright, Stephen Dorff, Ron Leibman, Margarita Xirgu, and Gennady Khazanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Thelma Todd ranks 261Before her are Petre Steinbach, Jan Diddens, David Smith, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Arthur Rudolph, and Victor Hasselblad. After her are Gerardo Romero, Alberto Soria, William Wilson Morgan, Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Alice Kober, and Branislav Sekulić. Among people deceased in 1935, Thelma Todd ranks 111Before her are Stanley G. Weinbaum, Gottlieb von Jagow, Gerhard Louis De Geer, Virginie Demont-Breton, Julia Beck, and Sylvain Lévi. After her are Alfred Ewing, Jackson Showalter, Anna Katharine Green, Aimé Haegeman, Herbert Ponting, and Johan Ramstedt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thelma Todd ranks 6,560 out of 18,182Before her are Lillian Copeland (1904), Lori Singer (1957), M. King Hubbert (1903), Bob Weinstein (1954), Paul Dooley (1928), and Jack Haley (1898). After her are Steve Forbes (1947), Aloma Wright (1950), Stephen Dorff (1973), Ron Leibman (1937), Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), and Florence Bascom (1862).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Thelma Todd ranks 2,044Before her are Dane DeHaan (1986), Sabrina Carpenter (1999), Shawn Wayans (1971), Lori Singer (1957), Paul Dooley (1928), and Jack Haley (1898). After her are Aloma Wright (1950), Stephen Dorff (1973), Ron Leibman (1937), Melinda Dillon (1939), Robert Armstrong (1890), and Traylor Howard (1966).

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