James L. Neibaur is a film historian and educator with more than 30 books and hundreds of articles appearing in Cineaste, Classic Images, Film Quarterly, Films in Review, Filmfax, and Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.¿The Early Life of Thelma Todd

2.¿The Early Life of ZaSu Pitts

3.¿The Films of Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts

Let's Do Things (1931)¿11 deleteCatch-As ­Catch-Can (1931)¿16 deleteThe Pajama Party (1931)¿20 deleteWar Mamas (1931)¿23 deleteOn the Loose (1931)¿26 deleteSealskins (1932)¿30 deleteRed Noses (1932)¿34 deleteStrictly Unreliable (1932)¿37 deleteThe Old Bull (1932)¿40 deleteShow Business (1932)¿45 deleteAlum and Eve (1932)¿49 deleteThe Soilers (1932)¿52 deleteSneak Easily (1932)¿56 deleteAsleep in the Feet (1933)¿59 deleteMaids a la Mode (1933)¿62 deleteThe Bargain of the Century (1933)¿65 deleteOne Track Minds (1933)¿69

4.¿The Films of Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly

Beauty and the Bus (1933)¿74 deleteBacks to Nature (1933)¿78 deleteAir Fright (1933)¿81 deleteBabes in the Goods (1934)¿84 deleteSoup and Fish (1934)¿87 deleteMaid in Hollywood (1934)¿90 deleteI'll Be Suing You (1934)¿94 deleteThree Chumps Ahead (1934)¿97 deleteOne-Horse Farmers (1934)¿100 deleteOpened by Mistake (1934)¿105 deleteDone in Oil (1934)¿109 deleteBum Voyage (1934)¿112 deleteTreasure Blues (1935)¿115 deleteSing Sister Sing (1935)¿118 deleteThe Tin Man (1935)¿121 deleteThe Misses Stooge (1935)¿124 deleteSlightly Static (1935)¿127 deleteTwin Triplets (1935)¿130 deleteHot Money (1935)¿134 deleteTop Flat (1935)¿136 deleteAll American Toothache (1936)¿140

5.¿The Death of Thelma Todd

6.¿The Film of Patsy Kelly and Pert Kelton

Pan Handlers (1936)¿147

7.¿The Films of Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberti

At Sea Ashore (1936)¿151 deleteHill Tillies (1936)¿154 deleteNobody's Baby (1937)¿158

8.¿The Later Years of ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly

Chapter Notes

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