Thelma is a female given name meaning "will, volition" in Greek. Note that although consonant with another female given name, Selma, the two are not synonymous.

Thelma may refer to:

Persons[link]

• Thelma Aoyama, Japanese pop singer
• Thelma Barlow, English actress
• Thelma Carpenter, American jazz singer and actress
• Thelma Cazalet-Keir, British politician
• Thelma Drake, American politician
• Thelma Forbes, Canadian politician
• Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
• Thelma Harper, Tennessee politician
• Thelma Hill, American silent screen actress
• Thelma Holt, stage actress and producer
• Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
• Thelma Hopkins (athlete), British athlete
• Thelma Houston, American singer
• Thelma Leeds, American actress
• Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player
• Thelma Pat Nixon, former First Lady of the United States
• Thelma Parr, American actress
• Thelma Pressman, American microwave cooking consultant and cookbook author
• Thelma Rún Heimisdóttir, Icelandic women's basketball player
• Thelma Schoonmaker, American film editor
• Thelma Terry, American bandleader
• Thelma Todd, American screen actress
• Thelma Toole
• Thelma Votipka, American opera singer

Fictional characters[link]

• Thelma Bates, from the TV series Hex
• Thelma Evans, in the sitcom Good Times
• Thelma Harper, from The Carol Burnett Show and Mama's Family
• Thelma Lou, on The Andy Griffith Show
• Thelma Griffin, from Family Guy
• Thelma Chambers, from the British sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
• Thelma Dickinson from the 1991 film Thelma and Louise

Other[link]

• Thelma (film), a 2011 Filipino film
• "Thelma", a song by John Lee Hooker
• Cyclone Thelma, a cyclone in Australia in 1998
• Tropical Storm Thelma, a tropical storm that killed 5000 people in the Philippines in 1991

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Tom Novy (born Thomas Reichold)^[1] is a DJ and producer from Munich, Germany. He was the author of several club hits including "Without Your Love" and "Your Body". The latter has reached the top 40 of the ARIAnet Singles Chart in July 2005, and the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in December 2005.^[1] The song was the 142nd highest selling song of the year in the UK.^[2]

Novy started producing music in 1994 when he signed for the Munich based record label, Kosmo Records, with his first record, "I House U", a cover of the Jungle Brothers' "I'll House You", with lyrics by Novy. His original tracks ran more along the subgenre of European-flavoured progressive house, until he started working with Eniac, better known as co-producer of DJ Tomcraft. Since then, Novy has moved to a Chicago-style garage house sound, usually vocalized.^{[citation needed]} After a few more tracks on his own, Novy has once more taken on a studio partner, Adrian Misiewicz of DJ Manga.

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Tom Novy[link]

• 1995 "I House U"
• 1996 "The Odyssey" (with Afrika Islam & Vicky Culhoun)
• 1997 "Creator" (with Oliver Morgenroth)
• 1999 "I Rock" (with Adrian Misiewicz & Virginia) - #55 UK
• 2000 "Now Or Never" (with Adrian Misiewicz & Lima - #64 UK
• 2000 "My Definition EP"
• 2000 "Welcome To The Race" (with Adrian Misiewicz & Lima)
• 2000 "Music Is Wonderful" (with Adrian Misiewicz & Lima)
• 2001 "Back To The Streets"
• 2002 "It's Over" (with Sabrynaah Pope)
• 2003 "Loving You" (with Adrian Misiewicz)
• 2003 "Without Your Love" (with Adrian Misiewicz & Lima) - #80 AUS
• 2004 "Your Body" (with Adrian Misiewicz & Michael Marshall) - #36 AUS
• 2005 "Take It (Closing Time)" (with Adrian Misiewicz, Jan Krause & Lima) - #54 AUS
• 2006 "Unexpected" (with Adrian Bahil & Robin Felder)
• 2007 "My House" (with Adrian Bahil & Michael Marshall)
• 2008 "Runaway" (with Adrian Bahil & Abigail Bailey)
• 2008 "Ziganje" (with Adrian Bahil)
• 2009 "(My City Is) My Lab" (with Adrian Bahil & Sandra Nasic)
• 2009 "Follow Me To Ibiza 2009"
• 2010 "Touch my Junk" GU Music^[1]

Novy vs. Eniac[link]

All were collaborations with Eniac

• 1998 "Smoke Dis"
• 1998 "Superstar" - #25 Switzerland, #30 Austria, #32 UK, #56 Netherlands
• 1998 "Someday > Somehow" (with Virginia)
• 1999 "Pumpin" - #19 UK^[1]

Other aliases[link]

• 2003 "@ Work", as Supermodel DJs (with Phil Fuldner)
• 2005 "I Need Your Lovin", as Casanovy (with Adrian Misiewicz)
• 2006 "New Dimension", as Yvonn (with Adrian Bahil and Bill Brown)
• 2006 "The Power", as Tom Novy vs. TV Rock (with TV Rock)
• 2007 "Slap That Bitch", as Tom Novy vs. JCA (with Jean-Claude Ades, Patty the Downtownprincess and Simone Anés)

Albums[link]

• 2000 My Definition
• 2006 Superstar

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site in German or English
• Tom Novy discography at Discogs

In Popular Culture[link]

Tom Novy was originally supposed to be GTA III with his song, Back To The Streets, but got removed due to unknown reasons

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Thelma Aoyama (青山 テルマ, Aoyama Teruma^?), born October 27, 1987, is a Japanese pop and R&B singer. She is part Afro-Trinidadian and Japanese.

She is probably best known for her collaboration song with SoulJa, "Koko ni Iru yo", and her answer song "Soba ni Iru ne". In September 2008, the Guinness World Records certified that "Soba ni Iru ne" became the best-selling digital download single in Japan with over two million "full-track" downloads (Chaku Uta Full).^[1] However, the record of the Guinness World Records was replaced by Greeeen's song "Kiseki" in June 2009.^[2][3] Including various forms of digital downloads, it sold over 8.7 million downloads by November 2008.^[4]

Life and career[link]

She spent six years at Osaka International School as an elementary school student. At age 12, her family moved to Torrance, California, where she lived for two years and attended Calle Mayor Middle School. She returned to Japan in the winter of 2002, settling in Tokyo. Aoyama attended the American School in Japan. As of 2010, she is a student at Sophia University.

Aoyama's first release in the music world was a collaboration on DS455's single "Summer Paradise: Risin' To Tha Sun, feat. Aoyama Thelma". The single reached #46 on the Oricon charts. On September 9, 2007, Aoyama made her solo debut with the single "One Way". This single debuted at #98 on the Oricon charts. Two weeks later, Aoyama was featured on the hit single "Koko ni Iru yo" with fellow J-Soul artist SoulJa. The single stayed on the charts for many weeks. Despite only reaching up to #6 on the charts, the single has sold over 100,000 copies.

In early 2008, Aoyama released an answer song to the single "Koko ni Iru yo" by SoulJa with her own single titled: "Soba ni Iru ne" which also featured SoulJa. Both of the songs are similar, and both share the same chorus. However, the song "Soba ni Iru ne" proved to be more popular than the song "Koko ni Iru yo", debuting at #3 in its first week on the Oricon charts, and in its second week, reaching #1 on the charts. "Soba ni Iru ne" stayed in the Top 5 ranking for 7 consecutive weeks. It became the highest-selling female single (strictly a duet song) on the Oricon 2008 yearly charts.^[5]

Her debut album, Diary, was released in Japan on March 26, 2008.

On February 11, 2009, she released album Love!: Thelma Love Song Collection, which debuted at the number-one position on the Oricon weekly charts. The latest album with a title name of Emotions was released in September, 2009.

In late December, it was announced that Aoyama will collaborate with Big Bang's Taeyang for her single, "Fall in Love", which will be released on January 27, 2010.^[6]

In early February, right after the release of her new single "Fall in Love", Aoyama announced on her official blog that a new single called "Kaeru Basho" will be out on March 3, 2010.The first song called "Kaeru basho" is the ending song in the movie Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King. This single will be featuring SoulJa, once again, as they have before with Soba ni Iru ne and will have a B side called "Anata ga Kiechaisode". Summer Love ft. Red Rice came out the summer of 2010.

In 2010, she also sang with the Taiwan pop group, Da Mouth in a duet with the female lead singer, Aisa in the song, 'Secret Life' within the album, 'Da First Episode'.

In late April, it was announced that Aoyama will collaborate with Korean girl group 4Minute for her single, "Without U", which will be released on May 25, 2011. The English Version was released on May 7, 2011.

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site (Japanese)
• Thelma Aoyama's's channel on YouTube^{[dead link]}
• Universal Label Site (Japanese)
• Oricon Profile (Japanese)
• Official Blog (Japanese)

Thelma Todd
in Corsair (1931)
Born	Thelma Alice Todd (1906-07-29)July 29, 1906 Lawrence, Massachusetts
Died	December 16, 1935(1935-12-16) (aged 29) Pacific Palisades, California
Cause of death	accidental carbon monoxide poisoning
Other names	Alison Loyd
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1926-1935
Spouse	Pat DiCicco (m.1932-1934; divorced)

Thelma Alice Todd^[1] (July 29, 1906 - December 16, 1935) was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily. She also had roles in Wheeler and Woolsey farces, several Laurel and Hardy films, the last of which (The Bohemian Girl) featured her in a part that was truncated by her death.

Early life[link]

Todd was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts to John and Alice Todd, and was a bright student who achieved good academic results. She intended to become a school teacher. However, in her late teens, she began entering beauty pageants, winning the title of Miss Massachusetts in 1925. While representing her home state, she was spotted by a Hollywood talent scout and began her career in film.

Career[link]

in Corsair (1931)

During the silent era, Todd appeared in numerous supporting roles that made full use of her beauty but gave her little chance to act. With the advent of the talkies, Todd was given opportunity to expand her roles when producer Hal Roach signed her to appear with such comedy stars as Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy. In 1931 she was given her own series, teaming with ZaSu Pitts (pronounced "Zay-soo," also her character's name) for slapstick comedies. This was Roach's attempt to create a female version of Laurel and Hardy. When Pitts left Roach in 1933, she was replaced by Patsy Kelly. The Todd shorts often cast her as a working girl having all sorts of problems, and trying her best to remain poised and charming despite the embarrassing antics of her sidekick.

In 1931, Todd became romantically involved with director Roland West,^[1][2] and starred in his film Corsair.

Thelma Todd became highly regarded as a capable film comedian, and Roach loaned her out to other studios to play opposite Wheeler & Woolsey, Buster Keaton, Joe E. Brown, and the Marx Brothers. She also appeared successfully in such dramas as the original 1931 film version of The Maltese Falcon starring Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, in which she played Miles Archer's treacherous widow. During her career she appeared in 119 films although many of these were short films, and was sometimes publicized as "The Ice Cream Blonde."

In August 1934, she opened a successful cafe at Pacific Palisades, called Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe, attracting a diverse clientele of Hollywood celebrities as well as many tourists.^[3]

Todd continued her short-subject series through 1935, and was featured in the full-length Laurel and Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl. This was her last film; she died after completing all of her scenes, but most of them were re-shot. Producer Roach deleted all of Todd's dialogue and limited her appearance to one musical number.^[4]

Death[link]

On the morning of Monday, December 16, 1935, Thelma Todd was found dead in her car inside the garage of Jewel Carmen, a former actress and former wife of Todd's lover and business partner, Roland West. Carmen's house was approximately a block from the topmost side of Todd's restaurant. Her death was determined to have been caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. Todd had a wide circle of friends and associates as well as a busy social life; police investigations revealed that she had spent the last night of her life at the Trocadero, a popular Hollywood restaurant, at a party hosted by entertainer Stanley Lupino and his actress daughter, Ida. At the restaurant, she had had a brief but unpleasant exchange with her ex-husband, Pat DeCicco. However, her friends stated that she was in good spirits, and were aware of nothing unusual in her life that could suggest a reason for committing suicide.

The detectives of the LAPD concluded at first that Todd's death was accidental, the result of her either warming up the car to drive it or using the heater to keep herself warm. Other evidence, however, pointed to foul play. The Grand Jury ruled her death as suicide. Since her body was cremated, a second, more thorough autopsy could not be carried out. It was believed that she was the target of extortion, but refused to pay. It is also possible that she was locked in the garage by her assailant after she started the car. Blood from a wound was found on her face and dress, leading some to believe that she was knocked unconscious and placed in the car so that she would succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Todd's death certificate states her cause of death as accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She was cremated; after her mother's death, her remains were placed in her mother's casket and buried in Bellevue Cemetery in her home town of Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Complicating matters, there was an apparent murder two years later involving Todd's ex-husband Pat DiCicco and another movie actor as the victim. According to E.J. Fleming's book The Fixers (about MGM's legendary "fixers" Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling), Wallace Beery (one of MGM's top stars), gangster Pat DiCicco, and Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli (who was also DiCicco's cousin and eventual producer of the James Bond films) allegedly beat comedian and movie actor Ted Healy to death in the parking lot of the Trocadero nightclub on December 21, 1937. The book claims that Beery was sent to Europe by the studio for a few months, while a story was concocted that three college students had killed Healy. Immigration records confirm a four-month-long trip to Europe on Beery's part immediately after Healy's death, ending April 17, 1938.^[5] A pencil drawing of Beery survives that was done on a film set by Healy, an amateur artist as well as the organizer and original leader of the Three Stooges.

Legacy[link]

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Thelma Todd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6262 Hollywood Blvd.

Selected filmography[link]

See also[link]

• Pitts and Todd

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Edmonds, Andy (1989). Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder. New York: William Morrow and Co. Inc. ISBN 0-688-08061-8. 
• James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard; Gregory W. Mank and Charles Hoyt (1979). The Funsters. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House. ISBN 0-87000-418-2. 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Thelma Todd

• Thelma Todd at the Internet Movie Database
• Thelma Todd at AllRovi
• Thelma Todd at the TCM Movie Database
• Thelma Todd Photo Gallery
• Paulist Productions Page For Todd Building Contains pic and brief text concerning her death and the building her cafe was located in, still standing today.
• The Mysterious Death of Thelma Todd. Los Angeles: Past, Present and Future Project, USC.
• Photographs and literature

• WELKOS, ROBERT W. (May 29, 2002). "A Mystery Revisited A building that figured in the unsolved death of actress Thelma Todd is for sale.". Los Angeles Times. http://www.hollywood-underground.com/toddarticle.htm. 
• The Death of Thelma Todd
• Thelma Todd's ex-husband and Ted Healy's death
• Thelma Todd's ex-husband Pat DiCicco
• Thelma Todd and Pat DiCicco photos