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- Based on the 1989 non-fiction book Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder by Andy Edmonds, the film is about the life of Hollywood comedic actress Thelma Todd, whose 1935 death was ruled accidental but always has been controversial.
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Jan 1, 1989 · Organized Crime, goes Hollywood in this captivating mystery of the unsolved murder (or was it murder?) of well known comedic actress Thelma Todd. Author Andy Edmonds, does another outstanding job on this biography and true life crime.
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Jan 1, 1990 · Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Shocking Crime: The Murder of Thelma Todd. Paperback – January 1, 1990. Recounts the particulars of the murder of 1930s starlet Thelma Todd, depicting the Hollywood scene in which she worked and drawing on new evidence to uncover her killer.
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- Andy Edmonds
Jan 1, 1989 · While Todd had supposedly been receiving threats from personal and perhaps professional cohort Lucky Luciano, officials chose to close the case. The author's claim to fingering Todd's killer derives mostly from a Deep Throat-type informant and a lot of Hollywood hearsay. In this genre, Stanley Kirkpatrick's A Cast of Killers ( LJ 7/86) has more ...
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- Andy Edmonds
- Andy Edmonds
Apr 18, 2021 · Hot Toddy : the true story of Hollywood's most sensational murder. by. Edmonds, Andy. Publication date. 1989. Topics. Todd, Thelma, 1905-1935, Murder -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Publisher.
Hot Toddy is yet another book about a scandal in old Hollywood. Because of this, it is bound to attract both fans of the era and those looking for all the juicy details of Thelma Todd's death. Andy Edmonds does an admirable job of giving plenty of information without causing her book to become trashy, so it satisfies both groups.
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Apr 1, 1991 · synopsis: the riveting true story of the murder that rocked hollywood. Brash, blond, and beautiful, Thelma Todd was Depression-era Hollywood's Queen of Comedy--a super-star living a wild life of dangerous excess.
- Andy Edmonds
Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder Andy Edmonds. William Morrow & Company, $18.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-688-08061-7
