Tragedy plagued native actress Thelma Todd, but she left ’em laughing and made the Immigrant City proud. She still does both, 111 years after her birth, July 29, 1906.

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 ...

LAWRENCE — William Donati, author of "The Life and Death of Thelma Todd," will speak July 18 at 6 p.m. at the public library, Local History Room, third Floor, 51 Lawrence St. Todd was a native of ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for ...

Thelma Todd, a Lawrence native and the actress who appeared opposite many of Hollywood’s best comedians in the 1930s, would have turned 107 tomorrow. Her father, John, became Lawrence’s commissioner ...