Toddy Pictures Company
Toddy Pictures Company was a film distribution and production company. It was founded by in 1941 by Ted Toddy (1900 - 1983) in a consolidation of his film businesses under the new name.[1] The film company specialized in African American films.[2]
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Toddy was born in Russia. He worked for more than a decade at major studios before establishing Dixie National Pictures in Atlanta. He added Million Dollar Productions to his business in 1940.[3] Toddy re-released Million Dollar Productions films with new titles and marketing.
Toddy believed in marketing light comedies with outdoor scenes and plenty of musical perofrmances to Black audiences.[4]
Filmography
- Harlem on the Prairie (1937),[3] distributor of a Sack Amusements film
- Up Jumped the Devil (1940), a Dixie National Pictures production[3]
- Prison Bait (1940), a re-release of Reform School (film)
- His Harlem Wife (1941)[5]
- Lucky Ghost (1942)[6]
- Professor Creeps (1942)
- Fight That Ghost (1946)[7]
- The Bronze Venus (1943), a re-release of The Duke Is Tops (1938)
- Buck and Bubbles Laugh Jubilee
- Gun Moll, also known as Gun Smashers
- Fighting Americans, a war propaganda film[8]
- Return of Mandy's Husband
- Crooked Money
- Going to Glory Come to Jesus
- Murder Rap (film)
- Mantan Messes Up
- Eddie's Laugh Jamboree
- Mr.Smith Goes Ghost
- Racket Doctor, a re-release of Am I Guilty? (1940)[9]
- What a Guy
- One Round Jones (1946) a Sepia Production starring Eddie Green, originally released in 1940
- Mantan Runs for Mayor (1947)[10]
- Come on Cowboy starring Mantan Moreland
- House-Rent Party (1946)[11]
- Gangsters on the Loose, a re-issue of Bargain with Bullets[12]
References
- ^ "Toddy Pictures Company photographs". oac.cdlib.org.
- ^ "Toddy Pictures Company photographs". oac.cdlib.org.
- ^ a b c "ACADEMY COLLECTIONS | details". collections.new.oscars.org.
- ^ Slide, Anthony (25 February 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. ISBN 9781135925543.
- ^ https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection/search?edan_q=*:*&edan_fq[]=p.edanmdm.indexedstructured.name:%22Toddy+Pictures+Company%22&edan_local=1&op=Search
- ^ "Lucky Ghost (1942) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ^ "Fight That Ghost (1946) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ^ "Fighting Americans". BFI.
- ^ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/23/tulsa-ok/appraisals/racket-doctor-movie-poster-ca-1940--201802T17/
- ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/563997/Mantan-Runs-for-Mayor/notes.html
- ^ https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/27657?cxt=filmography
- ^ https://www.daaracarchive.org/2019/03/bargain-with-bullets-aka-gangsters-on.html?m=1