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Dorothea Kent is a Actor American born on 21 june 1916 at St. Joseph (USA)

Dorothea Kent

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Nationality USA
Birth 21 june 1916 at St. Joseph (USA)
Death 10 december 1990 (at 74 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Dorothea Kent (June 21, 1916 – August 23, 1990) was an American film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1935 and 1948. In addition to her credited roles, she also had roles in 6 other films, including her last role in the 1948 film The Babe Ruth Story.

She was born in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1916, and died in 1990 from breast cancer. She was buried at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

Biography

Elle naît à Saint Joseph dans le Missouri en 1916. Elle débute au cinéma en 1934 dans le film musical George White's Scandals de George White . En 1935, elle tourne dans sept courts-métrages dont Romance dans le foin (Hayseed Romance) et Héros de la marine (Tars and Stripes) de et avec Buster Keaton.

A partir de 1936, elle obtient de nombreux rôles secondaires dans de nombreuses productions hollywoodiennes de l'époque et ce jusqu'au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En 1936, elle joue notamment le rôle d'une secretaire distraite aux côtés de George Brent, Jean Arthur et Ruth Donnelly dans la comédie romantique L'école des secrétaires (More Than a Secretary) d'Alfred E. Green. Elle apparaît la même année dans la comédie À New-York tous les deux (The Luckiest Girl in the World) d'Edward Buzzell aux côtés de Jane Wyatt et de l'acteur britannique Louis Hayward et dans le drame romantique Carnival Queen de Nate Watt adapté d'une nouvelle de Richard Wormser. L'année suivante, elle retrouve Buzzell et donne la réplique à Doris Nolan et John Boles dans une autre comédie romantique, J'arrange le fisc (As Good as Married).

En 1938, Alfred Santell la filme aux côtés de Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. et Lucille Ball dans la comédie Vacances payées (Having Wonderful Time). Otis Garrett lui offre l'un des premiers rôles du film policier The Last Express qui est adapté du roman homonyme de Baynard Kendrick. En 1939, elle est à nouveau à l'affiche d'un autre film policier avec Risky Business d'Arthur Lubin.

Dans les années 1940, elle tourne notamment pour Raoul Walsh, Lewis Seiler, Henry Koster, Frank Borzage, Joseph Kane ou Phil Rosen, principalement dans des rôles secondaires et ce dans des comédies et des films d'actions.

En 1946, elle prend part à deux des trois films réalisés par Phil Karlson qui sont consacrés aux aventures du héros de pulp The Shadow créé par Walter B. Gibson et joué ici par Kane Richmond .

En 1947, elle obtient un rôle secondaire dans la comédie musicale C'est arrivé dans la Cinquième Avenue (It Happened on 5th Avenue) de Roy Del Ruth. Elle apparaît une dernière fois au cinéma l'année suivante avec un rôle non créditée dans le film biographique The Babe Ruth Story de Roy Del Ruth consacré au joueur de baseball Babe Ruth. Elle se retire ensuite.

Elle meurt d'un cancer du sein en 1990 à l'âge de 74 ans dans le quartier d'Hollywood à Los Angeles en Californie. Elle est enterrée au San Fernando Mission Cemetery dans la même ville.

Usually with

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
(3 films)
Tom Dugan
Tom Dugan
(4 films)
Billy Gilbert
Billy Gilbert
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dorothea Kent (23 films)

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Actress

It Happened on Fifth Avenue, 1h56
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Johnny Arthur
Roles Margie Temple
Rating75% 3.7955353.7955353.7955353.7955353.795535
Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore), a New York City hobo, makes his home in a boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansion, using the back door, while its owner, multi-millionaire ("the second richest man in the world") Michael J. O'Connor (Charles Ruggles), winters in the South. McKeever winds up taking in homeless ex-G.I. Jim Bullock (Don DeFore), who has been evicted from an apartment building O'Connor is tearing down for a new skyscraper, and runaway 18-year-old Trudy "Smith" (Gale Storm) who is actually O'Connor's daughter. Soon Jim invites war buddies Whitey (Alan Hale, Jr.), Hank (Edward Ryan) and their families to share the vast mansion while they seek permanent homes of their own.
Army Wives
Army Wives (1945)
, 1h8
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Elyse Knox, Marjorie Rambeau, Rick Vallin, Dorothea Kent, Murray Alper, Hardie Albright
Roles Louise

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Pin Up Girl, 1h24
Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, John Harvey, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E. Brown, Eugene Pallette
Roles Kay Pritchett
Rating60% 3.0013153.0013153.0013153.0013153.001315
Lorry Jones (Betty Grable) is working as a hostess at the local USO canteen in "Missoula, Missouri," where she performs as a singer and signs photographs of herself for adoring soldiers.
Stage Door Canteen, 2h12
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films
Actors Cheryl Walker, Lon McCallister, Tallulah Bankhead, Kenny Baker, Margaret Early, Ralph Bellamy
Roles Mamie
Rating62% 3.148593.148593.148593.148593.14859
The storyline of the film follows several women who volunteer for the Canteen and who must adhere to strict rules of conduct, the most important of which is that while their job is to provide friendly companionship to and be dance partners for the (often nervous) men who are soon to be sent into combat, no romantic fraternization is allowed. One volunteer who confesses to only becoming involved in the Canteen in order to be discovered by one of the Hollywood stars in attendance, ultimately finds herself falling in love with one of the soldiers.
King of the Cowboys, 1h7
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Peggy Moran, Gerald Mohr, Bob Nolan, Lloyd Corrigan
Roles Ruby Smith
Rating59% 2.9524252.9524252.9524252.9524252.952425
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette et les Sons of the Pioneers vont sous couverture pour aider le gouverneur du Texas Russell Hicks à empêcher les sympathisants de l'Axe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale de faire exploser des entrepôts américains.
Call of the Canyon, 1h11
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ruth Terry, Thurston Hall, Dorothea Kent, Marc Lawrence
Roles Jane Oakley
Rating64% 3.2298353.2298353.2298353.2298353.229835
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and his fellow ranchers in Whippasaw are outraged to learn that the purchasing agent for the Grantley B. Johnson Packing Co., Thomas McCoy (Edmund MacDonald), is only offering them $65 per head of cattle. Unknown to the ranchers, McCoy is a gambler in debt to a bookie who sent his henchmen Horace Dunston and the Pigeon to ensure that McCoy pays up. McCoy plans to raise the money by pocketing the difference between what he is offering the ranchers and what the packing company sent him. Gene encourages the ranchers to stick together and wait while he travels to the city to speak directly with the packing company owner, Grantley B. Johnson (Thurston Hall).
Cross-Country Romance, 1h8
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Billy Gilbert, Berton Churchill, G.P. Huntley
Roles Millie
Rating58% 2.9086552.9086552.9086552.9086552.908655
High-profile heiress Diane North (Wendy Barrie) stows away in the trailer of a bacteriologist Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Smith (Gene Raymond) to escape from her own wedding. Larry has to drive cross country to San Francisco to catch a ship to China, where he will work with an eminent expert on a cure for a serious disease. When he discovers his stowaway, Diane tells him she is poverty-stricken Maggie "Jonesy" Jones, making her way to a slightly less poor uncle. Larry tries to get rid of his passenger at every opportunity, but she falls in love and uses every wile to stay with him.
No, No, Nanette, 1h36
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Anna Neagle, Richard Carlson, Victor Mature, Roland Young, Helen Broderick, Zasu Pitts
Roles Betty
Rating53% 2.6728652.6728652.6728652.6728652.672865
La jeune Nanette, guillerette, tente de sauver le mariage de son oncle et de sa tante en démêlant Oncle Jimmy de plusieurs flirts innocents mais captivants. Tentant un tel désenchevêtrement, Nanette fait appel au producteur de théâtre Bill Trainor, qui tombe rapidement amoureux d'elle. La même chose se produit lorsque l'artiste Tom Gillespie est sollicité. Mais bientôt les flirts de l'oncle Jimmy deviennent trop nombreux et les romances de Nanette avec Tom et Bill se heurtent à des problèmes. Le mariage de l'oncle Jimmy survivra-t-il et Nanette trouvera-t-elle le bonheur avec Tom, Bill ou quelqu'un d'autre?
Flight Angels, 1h14
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyman, John Ridgely
Roles Mabel
Rating56% 2.808772.808772.808772.808772.80877
Although "ace" commercial airline pilot, Chick Faber (Dennis Morgan) is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves (Ralph Bellamy) when a flight physical reveals that his eyesight is failing. Aided by stewardess Mary Norvell (Virginia Bruce) and her friend, Nan Hudson (Jane Wyman), Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for stewardesses. While he remains at the airline, along with engineer, Artie Dixon (Wayne Morris), he continues work on the design of a secret research aircraft, he calls the "stratosphere ship" that will revolutionize commercial aviation by flying faster and higher than any current type.
Having Wonderful Time, 1h10
Directed by Robert Parrish, Alfred Santell, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films based on plays, Road movies
Actors Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Red Skelton, Lee Bowman
Roles Maxine
Rating59% 2.9979352.9979352.9979352.9979352.997935
Bored New York office girl Teddy (Ginger Rogers), goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains called Camp Kare Free, for rest and to get away from the noisy, busy, city life and avoid advances from Emil. She meets and at first does not like waiter Chick, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. She also meets friend Faye, her roommate Miriam, and Buzzy. Miriam has eyes for Buzzy, who seems to have eyes for everyone. Within her two-week stay, Teddy and Chick fall in love and spend every day together.
Goodbye Broadway, 1h5
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks, Jed Prouty
Roles Jeanne Carlyle

Molly and Pat Malloy, a married couple of famed vaudeville performers on the verge of retirement, arrive in a small Connecticut town to play a show, When they're insulted by the clerk of the shabby local hotel, the Malloys buy the hotel just for the satisfaction of firing him. But this aggravates the local realtor who's had his eye on the property. For revenge, the realtor places an ad in Variety that the Malloys are providing free room and board for any of their eccentric old vaudeville friends who might show up. Many do.