Collection consists of the correspondence, memorabilia, acting files, and photographs of American actress Thelma White (1910-2005).

Thelma White (1910-2005) was an American vaudeville, radio, and motion picture actress. White began performing at age 2 in her family's circus performance show as a "living doll", who stood in place and began cooing and wriggling on cue. She went on to perform in Vaudeville acts at age 10 and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies. She arrived in Hollywood in 1920 and appeared in her first film A Night in a Dormitory (1930). White's best known role was as Mae in the exploitation film Reefer Madness (1936), originally titled Tell Your Children. She toured with the United Servicemen Overseas and performed as the leader of an all-woman swing band, named Thelma White and Her All-Girl Orchestra, during World War II. While performing in the Aleutian Islands, she contracted an undisclosed "crippling disease" and was bedridden for 5 years. Following her recovery White briefly returned to film, but eventually she shifted to working as an agent.

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