Dorothy Devore

Dorothy Devore

Born: June 20, 1899
Died: September 10, 1976
in Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Dorothy Devore (June 22, 1899 – September 10, 1976) was a leading and popular American silent-film actor and comedian in her time. Born as Alma Inez Williams in Fort Worth, Texas in 1899, her family soon moved to Los Angeles when she was still a young girl. It was there where she completed her education and then joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for one year. She then went to Lyons and Moran comedies at Universal Pictures. It was at Universal where she was "discovered" by director/producer Al Christie, one of the most famous comedic moviemakers of the era. She began playing in small parts in films for Christie, but soon received leads and moved from one-reelers to two-reelers, which would make her a star.

Dorothy became very popular in the film industry during the period of 1918 until the late 1920s. She was a talented actress, specializing especially in comedic roles, for which she is remembered, such as in Know Thy Wife (1918), directed by Al Christie. Dorothy was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923. During a good deal of her career, she achieved stardom in the comedic two-reel Christie Comedies, released through Educational. When the chance arose for Dorothy to begin making longer, feature films, she decided to stay with what she was doing at that moment: two-reelers, where she had already attracted a good deal of attention.

A little time after her career kicked off, Christie loaned her out to play the female lead opposite Charles Ray in 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920), in which she had great success. Following this film, she declined several feature film offers and immediately returned to two-reelers. She made several successful films which established her as one of the screen's most talented comedians of the era. She made her last film, Take the Heir, in 1930, and began her retirement from the movies.

She married theater owner Albert Wylie Mather in 1926. Devore died in 1976 in Woodland Hills, California, aged 77, from undisclosed causes.

--From Wikipedia

Movies for Dorothy Devore...

Miracle on Main Street
Title: Miracle on Main Street
Character: Woman in Church
Released: December 19, 1939
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the young woman finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
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Take the Heir
Title: Take the Heir
Released: January 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy young man he's impersonating, sets her sights on him.
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The Wrong Mr. Wright
Title: The Wrong Mr. Wright
Character: Teddy
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Senor Daredevil
Title: Senor Daredevil
Character: Sally Blake
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger" O'Flagherty (George Nichols), the supervisor of a supply-wagon train destined for the miners in Sonora. Tiger is being terrorized by Jesse Wilks (J.P. McGowan), who hopes to starve the miners out of their claims. Falling in love with Tiger's ward, Sally (Dorothy Devore), Don Luis manages to turn the tables on Wilks, who is killed attempting to rob the supply train.
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The Gilded Highway
Title: The Gilded Highway
Character: Primrose Welby
Released: March 13, 1926
Type: Movie
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements.
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Marion Larnard
Released: January 22, 1926
Type: Movie
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
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The Midnight Flyer
Title: The Midnight Flyer
Character: Mary Baxter
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
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His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Title: His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Character: Marie Breede
Released: September 14, 1925
Type: Movie
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
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A Broadway Butterfly
Title: A Broadway Butterfly
Character: Irene Astaire
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
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The Prairie Wife
Title: The Prairie Wife
Character: Chaddie Green
Released: February 23, 1925
Type: Movie
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail, who is equally broke though he owns grainland in the West. Duncan and Chaddie are married and go west to homestead. Duncan hires Ollie, a Swedish caretaker, who frightens Chaddie. When business takes Duncan away, Chaddie goes to take care of Percy Woodhouse, an Englishman who has become ill at his place fifteen miles away. Her horse runs away, and she is forced to spend the night there. She sleeps under a wagon, but Duncan is nevertheless angry and jealous.
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The Narrow Street
Title: The Narrow Street
Character: Doris
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
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The Tomboy
Title: The Tomboy
Character: Tommy Smith
Released: December 26, 1924
Type: Movie
Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
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Hold Your Breath
Title: Hold Your Breath
Character: Mabel
Released: May 24, 1924
Type: Movie
When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
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Getting Gertie's Goat
Title: Getting Gertie's Goat
Character: Gertie
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
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Stay Single
Title: Stay Single
Released: January 28, 1924
Type: Movie
After Felix Valle helps rescue next door neighbor Dorothy Devore's dog from the over-zealous dog catcher, she agrees to help him get a raise in salary by pretending to be his wife. Meanwhile, her jealous husband is bringing home Felix' boss for a deal...
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Kidding Katie
Title: Kidding Katie
Character: Katie
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
A 1923 Christie comedy starring Babe London and Dorothy Devore. Queenie (London) has sent a picture of her sister Katie (Devore) to her pen pal as if it was her. Now that the pen pal is in love and coming to meet Queenie in person, Katie has to pretend she is a child.
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Navy Blues
Title: Navy Blues
Character: Mrs. James Warren
Released: September 16, 1923
Type: Movie
The Warrens have a full dress Navy wedding, but to sneak out on the reception guests, Dorothy disguises herself as a sailor. But she's caught up with a group of real sailors and finds herself aboard a battleship. Incredibly, nobody spots her as a small female impostor, causes foul ups and gets chased around the decks and cannons.
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Pick and Shovel
Title: Pick and Shovel
Released: June 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Winter Has Came
Title: Winter Has Came
Character: Mary
Released: April 6, 1923
Type: Movie
A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.
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Saving Sister Susie
Title: Saving Sister Susie
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Susie is forced to dress as a little girl by her mother and sister to make her less attractive to a man her sister hopes to woo. Susie, however, is determined to get her man.
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Magnificent Brute
Title: Magnificent Brute
Released: March 12, 1921
Type: Movie
French Canadian trapper Victor Raoul returns to the trading post at St. Ignace to find a rival for the affections of Yvonne, his business partner's daughter, in the Marquis Courtière, Parisian representative of the fur company. Raoul quarrels with Fontaine over the visitor's business dealings and his attentions to Yvonne.
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45 Minutes from Broadway
Title: 45 Minutes from Broadway
Character: Mary Jane Jenkins
Released: August 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.
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Know Thy Wife
Title: Know Thy Wife
Character: Betty Browning
Released: December 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
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The House Cleaning Horrors
Title: The House Cleaning Horrors
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie