Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like other Marx Brothers pictures (The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business) this one is distinguished by an irrationality which is only vaguely challenged by romantic episodes concerning Zeppo Marx. This time Zeppo is attached to a blonde Miss Bailey (Thelma Todd), the college widow. Groucho, Chico and Harpo also attempt to become familiar with Miss Bailey. She tries to steal the signals of the Huxley football team from President Groucho by taking him for a ride in a canoe. Groucho lets her paddle, throws her a candy life-saver when she falls out. Presently, Chico and Harpo go to kidnap...
...Ernst Lubitsch was hesitating to sign his new contract, Paramount's production chiefs thought it might be expedient to have a second-string Lubitsch ready. Frank Tuttle certainly directed this one in the Lubitsch manner. He even uses a Lubitsch touch at the very beginning when a lady (Thelma Todd) gets her evening gown caught in the door of a limousine and the crowd on the sidewalk turns the incident into a song-"Madame Has Lost Her Dress." The song runs through the rest of the picture and helps to give it the light-hearted mood necessary to make...
Lady Furness, who before her marriage was an American, the well-known Mrs. Thelma Morgan Converse of New York, had no such harsh feelings about her step daughter's marriage. In London last week she took issue with her fiery husband, cabled congratulations to Zebraist Rat-trav & bride...
...Thelma got to be fere (friendly) with the stranger, with his white hands and winning ways: almost consented to marry him. But she could not understand why he employed Lum Morgan. Chad, once deputy sheriff, had jailed Lum's son. Lum had recently shot at Chad, mistaking him for a rabbit. Clayton found Lum useful around the mines, continued to employ him. Lum thought that this meant that Clayton wanted him to take another shot at Chad, mistake him for a barn door...
...breaking point, when everybody's suspicions were mutual, Lida Grant, worried lest murder materialize, set fire to Clayton's coal-sheds. After the bonfire Glen Hazard's native sons drove them both out of town. Thelma returned to the Tennessee mountain peace with a sorrow for the city-man in her heart, but only Chad and Vesper on her hands...