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]

Film still for Buck and Bubbles Laugh Jubilee
Advertisement for Professor Creeps
Lobby card for Prison Bait

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
  1. "Toddy Pictures Company photographs". oac.cdlib.org.
  2. "Toddy Pictures Company photographs". oac.cdlib.org.
  3. "ACADEMY COLLECTIONS | details". collections.new.oscars.org.
  4. Slide, Anthony (25 February 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. ISBN 9781135925543.
  5. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection/search?edan_q=*:*&edan_fq[]=p.edanmdm.indexedstructured.name:%22Toddy+Pictures+Company%22&edan_local=1&op=Search
  6. "Lucky Ghost (1942) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  7. "Fight That Ghost (1946) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  8. "Fighting Americans". BFI.
  9. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/23/tulsa-ok/appraisals/racket-doctor-movie-poster-ca-1940--201802T17/
  10. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/563997/Mantan-Runs-for-Mayor/notes.html
  11. https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/27657?cxt=filmography
  12. https://www.daaracarchive.org/2019/03/bargain-with-bullets-aka-gangsters-on.html?m=1
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