Killed at the Cafe: The Mysterious Hollywood Death of Thelma Todd
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3.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
By the age of 29, Thelma Todd had taken Hollywood by storm with her bubbly personality and acting chops. But her reign would come to a deadly end in December of 1935. That was when she was discovered dead under mysterious circumstances.
Check out Marvin J. Wolf's article in Los Angeles Magazine here: https://www.marvinjwolf.com/blog/thelma-todds-death-solved
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| 0:29.4 | Content warning. |
| 0:30.8 | This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence and murder. |
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| 0:41.4 | Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233. |
| 0:48.8 | The death threat came in February of 1935. |
| 0:53.4 | It was mailed from Long Island to the actress Thelma Todd in care of the How Roach movie |
| 0:58.7 | studio in California. |
| 1:01.4 | Pay $10,000 to Abe Lyman in New York by March 5th and live. |
| 1:06.9 | If not, our San Francisco boys will lay you out. |
| 1:11.5 | This is no joke. |
| 1:14.1 | Thelma took the matter very seriously. |
| 1:17.6 | After reporting the threat to the authorities, the press wrote that she went into seclusion |
| 1:22.4 | under guard. |
| 1:24.7 | She knew better than most that it was no laughing matter because of her past. |
| 1:30.4 | Just the year before she had gotten a divorce from Pascalie Pat DeChico. |
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