1. Thelma Hill's parents were married in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1899.
10 Facts About Thelma Hill
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Thelma Hill was one of the few Sennett Bathing Beauties to make it into featured roles.
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Thelma Hill was widely known as the "mah jongg bathing girl" because of the mah jongg bathing suit she was photographed in.
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Thelma Hill was discovered by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle when she was serving him and dropped soup in his lap.
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Thelma Hill started working as an extra at the Sennett studios in 1919 and appeared in dozens of comedy shorts including Picking Peaches and The Hollywood Kid.
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Thelma Hill was a talented comedienne and quickly moved on to featured roles.
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Thelma Hill starred opposite Ben Turpin in A Prodigal Bridegroom and with Billy Bevan in Hoboken From Hollywood.
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Thelma Hill was under contract at FBO in 1927 and was signed by MGM for a role in The Fair Co-Ed.
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Thelma Hill appeared in a handful of talkies including The Old Barn and The Naughty Flirt with Alice White.
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Thelma Hill died at the sanitorium on May 11,1938, at the age of 31.