Dorothy Short

Dorothy Short

Born: June 29, 1915
Died: June 4, 1963
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Dorothy Short (1915 - 1963) was an American film actress mainly in low-budget westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.

A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie Reefer Madness, which in modern times has become a well-known cult film. She also appeared in another anti-marijuana film Assassin of Youth in 1937.

She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the Pete Smith series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions during the 1940s. After their divorce in 1954, Short retired from film acting, and died nine years later at age 47.

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Savage Fury
Title: Savage Fury
Character: Mona Andrews
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
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Things We Can Do Without
Title: Things We Can Do Without
Character: Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth.
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Bargain Madness
Title: Bargain Madness
Character: Dorothy (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1951
Type: Movie
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.
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A Wife's Life
Title: A Wife's Life
Character: Mrs. George T. Hardnose
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
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Just Suppose
Title: Just Suppose
Character: Wife (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1948
Type: Movie
An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.
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I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
Title: I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law.
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I Love My Wife BUT!
Title: I Love My Wife BUT!
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
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I Love My Husband, But!
Title: I Love My Husband, But!
Character: The Wife (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
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Captain Midnight
Title: Captain Midnight
Character: Joyce Edwards
Released: February 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America.
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Bullets for Bandits
Title: Bullets for Bandits
Character: Dakota Brown
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.
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The Lone Rider Fights Back
Title: The Lone Rider Fights Back
Character: Jean Dennison
Released: December 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises himself as a musician to get the goods on a gang of terrorists. The principal villain hopes to scare the local miners off their land, so he can move in and clean up.
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Spooks Run Wild
Title: Spooks Run Wild
Character: Linda Mason
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Title: Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Character: Ruth Wade
Released: May 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.
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The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Title: The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Character: Nancy Nordick
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
The Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.
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Pony Post
Title: Pony Post
Character: Alice Goodwin
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Atkins is the boss of one of the Pony Express relay stations. He has been causing trouble and is replaced with Cal Sheridan. Atkins now gets the Richard brothers to raid one of the relay stations and they kill Norma's father. Cal sees that the horse of one of the raiders has a broken shoe and Norma sets out to find that horse.
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Frontier Crusader
Title: Frontier Crusader
Character: Jenny Mason
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.
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Phantom Rancher
Title: Phantom Rancher
Character: Ann Markham
Released: March 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
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Daughter of the Tong
Title: Daughter of the Tong
Character: Marion Morgan
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
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Code of the Cactus
Title: Code of the Cactus
Character: Joan
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Title: Where the Buffalo Roam
Character: Laddie Gray
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when Tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death.
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Tell Your Children
Title: Tell Your Children
Character: Mary
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
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The Singing Cowgirl
Title: The Singing Cowgirl
Character: Nora Pryde
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
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Heart of Arizona
Title: Heart of Arizona
Character: Jacqueline Starr
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang.
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Start Cheering
Title: Start Cheering
Character: Student
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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Assassin of Youth
Title: Assassin of Youth
Character: Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
Released: February 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
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Brothers of the West
Title: Brothers of the West
Character: Annie Wade
Released: June 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Tyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president. To prove him innocent, Tyler must decipher his only clue, an unusual set of tire tracks.
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More Than a Secretary
Title: More Than a Secretary
Character: Ann (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1936
Type: Movie
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
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The Call of the Savage
Title: The Call of the Savage
Character: Mona Andrews
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Student
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.