#Patsy Todd

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Early 60's

Not the same Marianne (or Mary-Ann) as I previously posted.

A lively ska classic!

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Patsy Kelly and Thelma Todd with director Gus Meins at Hal Roach Studios during filming of the 1933 short, BACKS TO NATURE.

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🎂 Remembering actress/comedian Thelma (Alice) Todd born on July 29th, 1906 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Appeared in 119 feature films and shorts between 1926 thru 1935. She performed opposite; The Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chase. Thelma was also partnered with Zasu Pitts and later Patsy Kelly in over 30 comedy shorts at Hal Roach Studios. 🎭 🥂🍾

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Silver Screen magazine, February 1939

Merle Oberon is actually signalling that she is doing all right, having implemented method 3 (sob story), as recommended by her two maids/pals in the film (Patsy Kelly and Mabel Todd), on how to get Gary Cooper in a "romantic" mood.

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Thelma Todd, July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935.

With Patsy Kelly in Gus Meins’s Air Fright (1933).

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30 Days of Classic Queer Hollywood

Day 7: Patsy Kelly (1910-1981)

"I'm a big dyke. So what? Big deal." - Patsy Kelly to a biographer in the 1970s

Actress Patsy Kelly, best known for her role as the witty sidekick to Thelma Todd in a series of twenty-one 1930s comedy short films, was a lesbian. In the 1930s, she admitted to Motion Picture Magazine that she had been living with fellow actress Wilma Cox for several years and had no intention of getting married. (In those days, this was about as close as one could get to coming out without being blacklisted.) Kelly later admitted to having had an affair with Tallulah Bankhead (see earlier post) when she worked as Bankhead's personal assistant. In the 1970s, when an author interviewed classic Hollywood stars rumored to be lesbians, Kelly was the only one to openly admit to being queer.

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Patsy Kelly and Thelma Todd for Hal Roach Studios, 1930s

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Thelma Todd      Patsy Kelly

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60's

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Babes in the Goods (1934) Gus Meins

April 22nd 2024

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back at it again with the good old-fashioned text post memes

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Patsy Kelly and Thelma Todd, 1933.

A female version of Laurel and Hardy, the two appeared together in a series of Hal Roach comedy shorts beginning in 1933 with Beauty and the Bus, where Kelly replaced ZaSu Pitts who left after a salary dispute. Kelly and Todd became close friends, but the partnership ended in 1935 due to Todd's tragic death later that year.

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Propaganda

Judy Garland (Meet Me In St. Louis, A Star is Born, Summer Stock)— Judy is the GOAT when it comes to classic movie musicals. The voice of an angel who deserved so much better than she got. She can sing she can dance she can act she's a triple threat. Though she had a turbulent personal life (her treatment as a child star by the studio system makes me mad as hell like Louis b Mayer fight me ((she was made to believe that she was physically unattractive by the constant criticism of film executives who made her feel ugly and who manipulated her onscreen appearance by capping her teeth and using discs in her nose to change its shape and Mayer called her "my little hunchback" like imagine hearing that as a child and not having damage)) she always goddamn delivered on screen and in any performance she gave. She began in vaudeville performing with her sisters and was signed to MGM at 13. Starting out in supporting parts especially paired with mickey Rooney in a bunch of films (she's the best part tbh) she eventually transferred to the lead role. She is best known for her starring role in movie musicals like the iconic Wizard of Oz (somewhere over the rainbow still hits hard and is ranked the top film song of all time), meet me in St. Louis (Judy singing have your self a merry little Christmas brings tears to the eyes she is that powerful), the Harvey girls (she looks like a technicolor dream and sings a catchy af song about trains), Easter parade ( dancing and singing with Fred Astaire), for me and my gal, the pirate, and summer stock ( with pal Gene Kelly who she helped when he was starting out and he helped her when she was struggling). But she also does non- singing just as well like the clock ( her first movie where she sings no songs and is an underrated ww2 era romance), her Oscar nominated a star is born ( like the man that got away she put her whole soul in that and I have beef with the fact she lost to grace kelly ((whom I love but like still not even her best work)), and judgement at Nuremberg (a courtroom drama about the nazi war criminal trials). Outside of film she made concert appearances to record-breaking audiences, released 8 studio albums, and had her own Emmy-nominated tv series. She was the youngest (39) and first female recipient of the Cecil B DeMille award for lifetime achievement in the film industry. Girl was a lifelong democrat and was a financial and moral supporter of many causes including the civil rights movement (she was at the March on Washington and held a press conference to protest the 16th street Baptist church bombings). She was a friend of the Kennedy family and would call jfk weekly often ending the calls by singing the first few lines of somewhere over the rainbow (she thought of them as Gemini twins).She was a member of the committee for the first amendment which was formed in response to the HUAC investigations. Though she died far too young and tragically she remains an icon for her work and her life. As a girl who didn't feel like i was as pretty as everyone else I have always felt a connection to Judy and I just really love her.

Patsy Kelly (The Countess of Monte Cristo, Merrily We Live, Topper Returns)—patsy kelly was a character actress best known for her brash wisecracking best friend roles, first appearing in a series of comedy shorts with thelma todd and then in a number of feature films. she was openly gay (lovers included tallulah bankhead), even candidly referring to herself as a dyke to the press on occasion and declaring she didn't intend to marry.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Patsy Kelly:

Oh, that wry little smile! She could sing. She could dance. She could do comedy and drama. Her mother enrolled her in dancing school to distract her from playing baseball and trying to become a firefighter. At the height of her career, she burned the whole thing down (heh) by answering a reporter's softball question about why she never married with "Because I'm a dyke." She became Tallulah Bankhead's "private secretary" and by the 1960s, she was once again a prominent character actress. Remember Laura-Louise in "Rosemary's Baby"?

Judy Garland:

Judy's voice alone qualifies her for at least top ten hottest HOT VINTAGE MOVIE WOMEN. She was a truly incredible swing singer, with a stunning voice on top of her technique. Her short dark hair looked incredible in just about any style. Have I mentioned her swagger? I can’t do it justice with words. She had swagger. She was funny as hell, and clever too. Incredibly charming and cool. I adore her.

Her eyes, her voice have bewitched me

I mean how can you beat the one and only Judy? She's beautiful, her smile is contagious, the way she sings with her whole body. You can't help but love her.

Beautiful woman, love her singing voice. And she can do everything between happy or silly and angry or heartbroken