

Author: Jill Stefko
Celebrity actresses Thelma Todd, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford and Lucille Ball have something in common. They became ghosts. Todd’s and Monroe’s deaths are still cloaked in mystery – accidental or intentional suicide or murder. Harlow died of kidney failure; Lombard in an airplane crash. Crawford died from an acute coronary occlusion and Ball, from a ruptured aorta. All of these actresses remain planet Earth as ghosts.
Actress Thelma Todd’s Ghost and Mysterious Death
Todd was featured in hit comedies in the 1930’s. During the height of her career, film director and her lover Roland West and she opened a restaurant, Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Café. She lived in a sumptuous apartment above it, while she had an affair with mobster Charles “Lucky” Luciano. On December 16, 1935, her body was found in her garaged car. She died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
After Todd’s death, there were rumors that, days before her death, Luciano approached her with his idea to use the café as a front for a gambling hall, which she refused.
It’s alleged that, on the night of Todd’s death, she had a fight with West, who lived next door to her apartment above the restaurant. She left him and went to a party. When she returned home, she found that West had locked her out. She kicked the door and yelled for him to open it; he ignored her. She went to the garage behind the café, entered her car, started it and passed out. The official report was that she died in the early morning hours of December 15, 1935 from “accidental suicide;” however people claimed to have seen her until late that night.
Today, the building that housed the café on Roosevelt Highway is owned by Paulist Productions. Employees have reported seeing Todd’s ghost walking down its stairs..... continues
Copyright©Jill Stefko
Originally published on Suite 101 on Dec 19 2011 and reproduced here courtesy of Jill Stefko
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