Dorothy Dix

Dorothy Dix

Born: June 13, 1908
Died: June 23, 2000
in Peoria, Illinois, USA

Movies for Dorothy Dix...

Guns and Guitars
Title: Guns and Guitars
Character: Marjorie Miller
Released: June 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
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Sunset of Power
Title: Sunset of Power
Character: Ruth Brannum
Released: January 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of the piece, grim-visaged cattle baron Neil Brannum, drives everyone around him mercilessly, including his own granddaughter Ruth. In retaliation, a caped-and-masked Spanish bandido stages nightly raids on Brannum's spread.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Alice - Pomeroy's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Hollywood Trouble
Title: Hollywood Trouble
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
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Elinor Norton
Title: Elinor Norton
Character: Publisher's Staff
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
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The Gold Ghost
Title: The Gold Ghost
Character: Gloria
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
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Wheels of Destiny
Title: Wheels of Destiny
Character: Mary Collins
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later identifies Rocky and his men as the attackers. Expelled from the wagon train, they stampede a buffalo herd puting the Indians on the warpath. After the Indians attack the wagon train, Rocky thinks he can get the map.
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The Super Snooper
Title: The Super Snooper
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
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Trimmed in Furs
Title: Trimmed in Furs
Character: William's Wife
Released: January 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
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Drum Taps
Title: Drum Taps
Character: Eileen Carey
Released: January 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the Sheriff is on Ken's side, and with the help of his brother Earl's Boy Scout troup they go after the gang.
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
Title: Torchy Raises the Auntie
Character: Vee Ellins
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
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The First Mrs Fraser
Title: The First Mrs Fraser
Character: Janet Fraser
Released: April 18, 1932
Type: Movie
'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Torchy's Night Cap
Title: Torchy's Night Cap
Character: Vee Ellins
Released: April 3, 1932
Type: Movie
Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
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Torchy Turns the Trick
Title: Torchy Turns the Trick
Character: Vee Ellins
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
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Torchy Passes the Buck
Title: Torchy Passes the Buck
Character: Vee Ellins
Released: December 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
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Torchy
Title: Torchy
Character: Vee Ellins
Released: October 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
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The Nevada Buckaroo
Title: The Nevada Buckaroo
Character: JoAnn
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
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Dollar Dizzy
Title: Dollar Dizzy
Character: Gold-Digger (uncredited)
Released: October 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money. Charlie gets word that a rich uncle has died, leaving him millions. Attorneys advise him to repair to a resort and avoid gold diggers. Once there, word spreads among the single women, and several try to ensnare him. At first he's gullible, then he cottons on, so when Thelma, a wealthy young woman, mistakes him for a fortune hunter, he dismisses her as well. A manager's error puts Charlie and Thelma in the same suite, and both think the other is prospecting. A dressing gown, radio, bare feet, pistol, keyhole, fountain pen, bedcovers, and a suspicious hotel detective join the mix-up. But wait, was the inheritance a mistake?