Thelma Todd Documentary
It started with a phone call to a Northern Ireland newspaper office I worked for. The caller was seeking help to find relatives of 1930s actress Thelma Todd, whose father was from Comber in County Down.
An assembled cast of screen legends, motionpicture studio bosses, villains and crooks set inTinseltown's golden age, not to mention a supporting cast of corrupt cops and shady politicians.
Ninety years have elapsed since thedeath of tragic movie star goddess Thelma Todd, nicknamed the Ice Cream Blonde or Hot Toddy, who was found slumped in the front seat of her huge Lincoln convertible at a friend's garage.
The scene that greeted the movie stars maid on a December morning in the fashionable Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Malibu would inspire numerous books, films and documentaries in the years that followed. Was it suicide, murder or an accident?
Let's face it, who doesn't love a good mystery
