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Dorothy Wilson is a Actor American born on 15 november 1909 at Minneapolis (USA)
Dorothy Wilson (November 14, 1909 – January 7, 1998) was an American film actress of the 1930s.
Wilson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, moving to Los Angeles, California, after her high school graduation. Ironically, she had no interest in acting and had moved to Los Angeles due to an urge to travel. In 1930, she began working as a secretary and applied at several employment agencies. She received a job at RKO Pictures, and for two years she worked there as a secretary. She often took notes for director Gregory La Cava; she was noticed by the executive in charge of casting and offered a screen test for La Cava's upcoming 1932 film The Age of Consent. She won one of the two lead coed roles, opposite Richard Cromwell. Her performance in the film received good reviews.
That same year, she was selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars", along with future Hollywood legend Ginger Rogers and Gloria Stuart. She would go on to star opposite some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Harold Lloyd, Richard Dix, Tom Keene, Preston Foster and Will Rogers. She appeared in twenty films between 1932 to 1937.
In 1936, she had married scriptwriter Lewis R. Foster, whom she had met while filming the 1934 movie Eight Girls in a Boat. Foster would win an Oscar for his script for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, released in 1939 and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, based on Foster's book The Gentleman From Montana. She was asked to test for the part of Melanie Hamilton in the epic movie Gone With the Wind, which she did, but she did not win the role, it being awarded to Olivia de Havilland. She would star in only two films after the marriage, after which she retired from acting to devote time to her family. She returned to acting only once, in an uncredited role in the 1943 film Whistling in Brooklyn.
She and Foster remained together and raised a family of two children. Foster died in 1974. Dorothy never remarried and was residing in Lompoc, California, at the time of her death on January 7, 1998.
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Dorothy Wilson
Wilson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, moving to Los Angeles, California, after her high school graduation. Ironically, she had no interest in acting and had moved to Los Angeles due to an urge to travel. In 1930, she began working as a secretary and applied at several employment agencies. She received a job at RKO Pictures, and for two years she worked there as a secretary. She often took notes for director Gregory La Cava; she was noticed by the executive in charge of casting and offered a screen test for La Cava's upcoming 1932 film The Age of Consent. She won one of the two lead coed roles, opposite Richard Cromwell. Her performance in the film received good reviews.
That same year, she was selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars", along with future Hollywood legend Ginger Rogers and Gloria Stuart. She would go on to star opposite some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Harold Lloyd, Richard Dix, Tom Keene, Preston Foster and Will Rogers. She appeared in twenty films between 1932 to 1937.
In 1936, she had married scriptwriter Lewis R. Foster, whom she had met while filming the 1934 movie Eight Girls in a Boat. Foster would win an Oscar for his script for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, released in 1939 and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, based on Foster's book The Gentleman From Montana. She was asked to test for the part of Melanie Hamilton in the epic movie Gone With the Wind, which she did, but she did not win the role, it being awarded to Olivia de Havilland. She would star in only two films after the marriage, after which she retired from acting to devote time to her family. She returned to acting only once, in an uncredited role in the 1943 film Whistling in Brooklyn.
She and Foster remained together and raised a family of two children. Foster died in 1974. Dorothy never remarried and was residing in Lompoc, California, at the time of her death on January 7, 1998.
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Craig's Wife (1936)
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke, Jane Darwell, Alma Kruger, Dorothy Wilson
Roles Ethel Landreth
Rating71%
The plot centers on twenty-four hours in the life of Harriet Craig (Rosalind Russell), and the home life she has created for herself and her husband. Harriet values material things more than her husband and goes to great lengths to protect her life as she has created it, regardless of what the outcomes are to those around her. The story's message is stated by the Craig's housekeeper, Mrs. Harold (Jane Darwell), who says, "Those who live to themselves, are left to themselves," as one by one, all her disgusted family and servants abandon her, leaving her entirely on her own.
The Milky Way (1936)
, 1h29Directed by Leo McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Lane, Verree Teasdale, Anthony Quinn, Helen Mack
Roles Polly Pringle
Rating64%
Timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) becomes involved in a brawl which ends up with Speed McFarland, the world middleweight champion being knocked out cold (he never in fact threw a punch; he merely ducked to get out of the way of a punch which brought the champ down).
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
, 1h36Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, La fin du monde, Sports films, Volcanisme, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films
Actors Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone, David Jack Holt, Dorothy Wilson, John Wood
Roles Clodia
Rating63%
In the time of Jesus Christ, blacksmith Marcus (Preston Foster) is content with his life, beautiful wife Julia (Gloria Shea) and six-month-old son. However, when Julia and their child are run down by a chariot in the streets of Pompeii, Marcus spends the little money he has to pay for a doctor and medicine. Needing more, in desperation, he becomes a gladiator. He wins his fight, but in vain; his wife and child die.
In Old Kentucky (1935)
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Films based on plays, Horse sports in film
Actors Will Rogers, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Charles Sellon, Louise Henry, Esther Dale
Roles Nancy Martingale
Rating63%
When a Man's a Man (1935)
, 1h8Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George O'Brien, Dorothy Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry Woods, Jimmy Butler, Clarence Wilson
Roles Kitty Baldwin
Rating65%
Bad Boy (1935)
, 56minutesDirected by John G. Blystone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors James Dunn, Dorothy Wilson, Louise Fazenda, Victor Kilian, Beulah Bondi, John Wray
Roles Sally Larkin
Rating64%
The White Parade (1934)
, 1h20Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Loretta Young, John Boles, Frank Conroy, Dorothy Wilson, Jane Darwell, Astrid Allwyn
Roles Zita Scofield
Rating68%
His Greatest Gamble (1934)
, 1h12Directed by John S. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Richard Dix, Dorothy Wilson, Bruce Cabot, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Edith Fellows, Shirley Grey
Roles Alice
Rating60%
Eight Girls in a Boat (1934)
, 1h25Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Montgomery, Kay Johnson, Walter Connolly, Ferike Boros, James Bush
Roles Christa Storm
Rating66%
Lucky Devils (1933)
Directed by Ralph Ince
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors William Boyd, Bruce Cabot, Dorothy Wilson, William Gargan, William Bakewell, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Fran Whitley
Rating61%
Scarlet River (1933)
, 54minutesDirected by Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance, Western
Actors Tom Keene, Dorothy Wilson, Roscoe Ates, Lon Chaney, Jr., Edgar Kennedy, Hooper Atchley
Roles Judy Blake
Rating60%
This script must be run from the command line
Before Dawn (1933)
, 1hDirected by Irving Pichel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges, Gertrude W. Hoffmann, Oscar Apfel
Roles Patricia Merrick, also known as Mlle. Mystera
Rating60%
Dying gangster Joe Valerie (Frank Reicher) reveals the hiding place of a million dollars in loot to his physician Dr. Cornelius (Warner Oland). The sinister Austrian doctor has designs on the money, but must first outwit detective Dwight Wilson (Stuart Erwin) and clairvoyant Patricia Merrick (Dorothy Wilson). The setting is an eerie, possibly haunted house in small town America, where the stash is hidden, and the bodies begin piling up.
The Age of Consent (1932)
, 1h3Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dorothy Wilson, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell, Eric Linden, John Halliday, Aileen Pringle
Roles Betty Cameron
Rating60%
Mike Harvey (Cromwell) and Betty Cameron (Wilson) are college sweethearts at a New York college. They are so anxious to consummate their relationship that Mike suggests that the two of them quit college, get married and move to California where a friend of his has offered him a job. Both Mike's mentor, Professor Matthews, and Betty talk him out of it. In a funk, Mike goes to the local diner.
Men Of America (1932)
, 58minutesDirected by William Boyd, Ralph Ince
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Western
Actors William Boyd, Charles "Chic" Sale, Dorothy Wilson, Henry Armetta, Ralph Ince, Frank Mills
Roles Anne
Rating60%
This script must be run from the command line