Dorothy Burgess

Dorothy Burgess

Born: March 4, 1907
Died: August 20, 1961
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Dorothy Burgess...

The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Gypsy in 'Hold Your Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The West Side Kid
Title: The West Side Kid
Character: Toodles
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
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Girls in Chains
Title: Girls in Chains
Character: Mrs. Peters
Released: May 17, 1943
Type: Movie
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
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Man of Courage
Title: Man of Courage
Character: Sally Dickson
Released: January 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
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Lone Star Ranger
Title: Lone Star Ranger
Character: Trixie
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
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Lady for a Night
Title: Lady for a Night
Character: Flo
Released: January 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
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Cadet Girl
Title: Cadet Girl
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
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I Want a Divorce
Title: I Want a Divorce
Character: Peppy Gilman
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Antoinette (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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Village Tale
Title: Village Tale
Character: Lulu Stevenson
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
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Gambling
Title: Gambling
Character: Dorothy Kane
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
The adopted daughter of New-York-City gambler, Al Draper, elopes from quarantine (key plot word) with another voyager from Europe. Later she is found murdered in a hotel room. Draper is dissatisfied with the handling of the case by the district attorney and sets out to work the case himself.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Title: Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Character: Millie Seagrove
Released: July 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Hat, Coat and Glove
Title: Hat, Coat and Glove
Character: Ann Brewster
Released: July 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Babe (aka Miss Mercedes)
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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Black Moon
Title: Black Moon
Character: Juanita Perez Lane
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
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Affairs of a Gentleman
Title: Affairs of a Gentleman
Character: Nan Fitzgerald
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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A Modern Hero
Title: A Modern Hero
Character: Hazel Flint Radier
Released: April 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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Orient Express
Title: Orient Express
Character: Mabel Warren
Released: February 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
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Fashions of 1934
Title: Fashions of 1934
Character: Glenda
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Dotty
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Dolly White
Released: November 16, 1933
Type: Movie
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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Night Flight
Title: Night Flight
Character: Pellerin's Girlfriend
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Ladies Must Love
Title: Ladies Must Love
Character: Peggy Burns
Released: September 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
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Headline Shooter
Title: Headline Shooter
Character: Ruby, Burnett's Moll
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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The Important Witness
Title: The Important Witness
Character: Ruth Dana
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
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It's Great to Be Alive
Title: It's Great to Be Alive
Character: Al Moran
Released: July 8, 1933
Type: Movie
An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.
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I Love That Man
Title: I Love That Man
Character: Ethel aka Giggles
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
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Hold Your Man
Title: Hold Your Man
Character: Gypsy
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
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Rusty Rides Alone
Title: Rusty Rides Alone
Character: Mona Quillan
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
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Strictly Personal
Title: Strictly Personal
Character: Bessie
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
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Ladies They Talk About
Title: Ladies They Talk About
Character: 'Sister' Susie
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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On Your Guard
Title: On Your Guard
Character: 'Sissy' Shannon
Released: January 31, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
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Malay Nights
Title: Malay Nights
Character: Eve Blake
Released: November 3, 1932
Type: Movie
The owner of a pearl bed falls in love with a bitter young girl who had been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous ex-boyfriend.
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Out of Singapore
Title: Out of Singapore
Character: Concha Renaldo
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
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The Stoker
Title: The Stoker
Character: Margarita Valdez
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
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Play Girl
Title: Play Girl
Character: Edna
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
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Taxi!
Title: Taxi!
Character: Marie Costa
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
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Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
Title: Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
Character: Cleopatra
Released: August 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them to ancient Egypt as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar vying for the beautiful Cleopatra's love in a chariot race.
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Recaptured Love
Title: Recaptured Love
Character: Peggy Price
Released: July 7, 1930
Type: Movie
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.
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Swing High
Title: Swing High
Character: Trixie
Released: May 18, 1930
Type: Movie
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.
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In Old Arizona
Title: In Old Arizona
Character: Tonia Maria
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1929)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.