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White Hot:Murder of Thelma Todd [VHS]

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This movie is a nice period piece set in the 1930's. The movie is based on an actual person. Thelma Todd was a real movie star of the time. The clothes,sets and overall feel of movie is right for the time. Once in a while an actor falls out of charcter, but mostly all the actors do a very nice job with this movie. The star Loni Anderson gives a good performance and is mostly believable as Thelma. She has a very good supporting cast. John O'Hurley plays the first and only husband and does a very nice job with his role.

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd is basically faithful to the Andy Edmonds biography on which it is based, but ads fictional details such as private eye investigating the case and an imprisoned gangster who tells him some of the details of the case. Roland West is portrayed as quite a bit youg than he really was, and Pat di Cicco is portrayed as quite a bit older than he really was. Somehow, Zasu Pitts is left out of the story altogether, Patsy Kelly is here portrayed as being Thelma's screen partner all along ( actually Thelma Todd was first teamed with Zasu Pitts ) but Loni Anderson did a good job of portraying Thelma Todd and altogether it made and entertaining mystery movie for television.