Thelma Todd

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 her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily. She also had roles in Wheeler and Woolsey farces, several Laurel and Hardy films, the last of which (The Bohemian Girl) featured her in a part that was truncated by her death.
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Death
On the morning of Monday, December 16, 1935, Thelma Todd was found dead in her car inside the garage of Jewel Carmen, a former actress and former wife of Todd's lover and business partner, Roland West. Carmen's house was approximately a block from the topmost side of Todd's restaurant. Her death was determined to have been caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. Todd had a wide circle of friends and associates as well as a busy social life; police investigations revealed that she had spent the last night of her life at the Trocadero, a popular Hollywood restaurant, at a party hosted by entertainer Stanley Lupino and his actress daughter, Ida. At the restaurant, she had had a brief but unpleasant exchange with her ex-husband, Pat DeCicco. However, her friends stated that she was in good spirits, and were aware of nothing unusual in her life that could suggest a reason for committing suicide.


The detectives of the LAPD concluded at first that Todd's death was accidental, the result of her either warming up the car to drive it or using the heater to keep herself warm. Other evidence, however, pointed to foul play. The Grand Jury ruled her death as suicide. Since her body was cremated, a second, more thorough autopsy could not be carried out. It was believed that she was the target of extortion, but refused to pay. It is also possible that she was locked in the garage by her assailant after she started the car. Blood from a wound was found on her face and dress, leading some to believe that she was knocked unconscious and placed in the car so that she would succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Todd's death certificate states her cause of death as accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She was cremated; after her mother's death, her remains were placed in her mother's casket and buried in Bellevue Cemetery in her home town of Lawrence, Massachusetts.


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sa situation le jour du décès :

29 ans et 5 mois.
16 décembre 1935 (29/07/1906)
Je 12
Ve 13 P(12)
Sa 14
Di 15 E(8)
Lu 16
Ma 17 I(9)
Me 18

le scénario du suicide peut coller, puisque le jour critique émotionnel y est...(le jour critique émotionnel est typiquement le "jour du suicide" : on le trouve très fréquemment le jour même ou à côté...)

(E8 le dimanche jusqu'en soirée - Thelma Todd étant une native du dimanche)
elle vient aussi de passer par sa période critique septennale des 28 ans, autre "élément à risque"...

cependant une coïncidence avec un accident et une intoxication ne peut tout à fait être écartée...

il semblerait aussi qu'elle s'était disputée avec son ex et effectivement si la date de naissance que je lui ai trouvée est bonne, la situation n'était pas rose pour lui ou pour les deux ce jour-là puisque lui aussi est un natif du dimanche :

décembre 1935 (14/02/1909)
Ve 13 P(1)
Sa 14
Di 15 E(1)
Lu 16 I(1)
Ma 17

(notre jour critique émotionnel est notre jour naturel à risque de colère donc de dispute... mais quand-même pas de meurtre sauf dans l'extrême, effectivement. on trouve fréquemment le jour critique émotionnel comme jour de passage à l'acte chez les meurtriuers du fait des tensions présentes à ce moment-là)