In 1934, Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Café became the place to be seen on Los Angeles’ Pacific Coast Highway. Housed in a beautiful Spanish-style building, it encompassed a fine dining restaurant serving ...

2002-06-14 04:00:00 PDT Hollywood-- They found actress Thelma Todd's lifeless body on the morning of Dec. 16, 1935, slumped over in the front seat of her 1934 Lincoln Phaeton convertible, her car ...

LAistory is our new series that will take us on a journey to what came before to help us understand where we are today. We began with Val Verde, the "Black Palm Springs" and now we go to Thelma Todd's ...

Thelma Todd was a slapstick comedian, known as "The Ice Cream Blonde'' and "Hot Toddy." When she wasn't sharing the screen with Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers, Todd prepared for her second act.

It was like the plot of a film noir: a young movie star at the peak of her fame found dead in the car of her sometime-lover’s garage. The coroner ruled that there was nothing to see here. The death, ...

There are some surprising Hollywood rumors and mysteries that remain unsolved. One of these involves the late actor Thelma Todd, a 1930s comedic star. While Todd's death was ultimately ruled a suicide ...

The star was born more than a century ago and died mysteriously at just 29, but her name is back in lights — gracing the new marquee on Lawrence's last movie theater. The Thelma Todd Theater, a modest ...