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Dorothy Short

Dorothy Short

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Short, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Tell Your Children
4.4

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.

Tell Your Children

1938
Bargain Madness
7.0

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

Bargain Madness

1951
Start Cheering
6.9

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Start Cheering

1938
Heart of Arizona
5.5

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.

Heart of Arizona

1938
More Than a Secretary
6.6

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.

More Than a Secretary

1936
Student Tour
6.7

A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

Student Tour

1934
Captain Midnight
6.3

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.

Captain Midnight

1942
The Trail of the Silver Spurs
6.0

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.

The Trail of the Silver Spurs

1941
Pony Post
8.0

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.

Pony Post

1940
Phantom Rancher
4.6

Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.

Phantom Rancher

1940
Spooks Run Wild
5.1

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Spooks Run Wild

1941
Savage Fury
7.0

Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.

Savage Fury

1956
Bullets for Bandits
7.0

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.

Bullets for Bandits

1942
Brothers of the West
6.3

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.

Brothers of the West

1937
The Singing Cowgirl
7.5

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.

The Singing Cowgirl

1938
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7.5

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.

I Love My Wife BUT!

1947
Assassin of Youth
2.9

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.

Assassin of Youth

1938
The Call of the Savage
6.0

Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

The Call of the Savage

1935
Where the Buffalo Roam
5.5

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.

Where the Buffalo Roam

1938
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10.0

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.

I Love My Husband, But!

1946