Dorothy Lee

Dorothy Lee

Born: May 23, 1911
Died: June 24, 1999
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Dorothy Lee...

Roar of the Press
Title: Roar of the Press
Character: Frances Harris
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Repent at Leisure
Title: Repent at Leisure
Character: Flip Sales Girl
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Louise
Released: January 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
Title: S.O.S Tidal Wave
Character: Mable
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Title: Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Thelma
Released: February 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Mary Blake
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Margie Spencer
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Elsie Wilson
Released: October 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
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Without Children
Title: Without Children
Character: Carol Cole-adult
Released: April 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Dot Scorsby
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Title: Cockeyed Cavaliers
Character: Mary Ann
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Dorothy Bosworth
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Title: Hips, Hips, Hooray!
Character: Daisy Maxwell
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
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Plane Crazy
Title: Plane Crazy
Character: Dottie
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
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Signing 'em Up
Title: Signing 'em Up
Character: Herself
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
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Take a Chance
Title: Take a Chance
Character: Consuelo Raleigh
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
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A Preferred List
Title: A Preferred List
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A Preferred List is a 1933 American Pre-Code short comedy film produced by Lou Brock. At the 6th Academy Awards, held in 1933, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
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New Deal Rhythm
Title: New Deal Rhythm
Character: Herself
Released: April 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration.
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Girl Crazy
Title: Girl Crazy
Character: Patsy
Released: March 24, 1932
Type: Movie
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
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Peach-o-Reno
Title: Peach-o-Reno
Character: Prudence Bruno
Released: December 25, 1931
Type: Movie
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
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Local Boy Makes Good
Title: Local Boy Makes Good
Character: Julia Winters
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
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Caught Plastered
Title: Caught Plastered
Character: Peggy Morton
Released: August 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: Alice Cook
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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Cracked Nuts
Title: Cracked Nuts
Character: Betty Harrington
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Autograph Signer
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Laugh and Get Rich
Title: Laugh and Get Rich
Character: Alice Austin
Released: March 27, 1931
Type: Movie
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Title: Hook, Line and Sinker
Character: Mary Marsh
Released: December 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
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Half Shot at Sunrise
Title: Half Shot at Sunrise
Character: Annette Marshall
Released: September 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
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Dixiana
Title: Dixiana
Character: Nanny - Pewee's Girl
Released: July 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
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Sweeping Against the Winds
Title: Sweeping Against the Winds
Released: June 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the workers, especially the office girl who starts a day nursery for their children. He's also a part owner in the business. His methods usually scare away the man hired as the plant manager, until a replacement (secretly one of the other owners) arrives.
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The Cuckoos
Title: The Cuckoos
Character: Anita
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Dolly Bean
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
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Syncopation
Title: Syncopation
Character: Peggy
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.But while performing at the nightclub, Flo becomes entranced by a young, sophisticated millionaire playboy, Winston.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1930)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.