The Hello everybody and welcome back to the Chalumonauty podcast episode

252 as always I am one of your host Mike Martin joined today by the oh crap

Thelma Todd and Zazu Pitts of LA,

Jesse and Alex.

What the fuck?

What?

The fact that he was like, clearly he forgot

that he was gonna say one and then he looked.

And then he looked and then the list was at hand is odd to me.

It's odd to me. It's odd to me. It's not a list as much as it's a paragraph about a

unique pairing that I discovered.

Here I'll give you a little bit.

Well, Zazu Pitts star of the silent screen?

Yep.

From the 1930s, while Laurel and Hardy were raging,

these two were also going at the same time.

Howell Roach, who created the two of them, envisioned a team of comedic women.

So in 1931, he created the first major female comedy team, Thelma Todd, and Zazu Pitts, which is a pretty important part of history.

That is crazy. Yeah, they did 17 short films together and they even managed to snag an appearance on one of

Laurel and Hardy's and one of their movies.

So there you go.

All right.

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