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Dorothy Christy is a Actor American born on 26 may 1906 at Reading (USA)
Dorothy Christy (May 26, 1906 – May 21, 1977) was an American actress. She acted with Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers and with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the film Sons of the Desert (1933), in the role of Mrs Laurel. She was Queen Tika of Murania in The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry’s 1935 cliffhanger serial. She concluded her cinema career in 1953.
Dorothy Christy died five days shy of her seventy-first birthday of natural causes.
Entretemps, citons Buster se marie d'Edward Sedgwick (1931, avec Buster Keaton et Edward Sedgwick), Les Compagnons de la nouba de William A. Seiter (1933, avec Laurel et Hardy) et Junior Miss de George Seaton (1945, avec Peggy Ann Garner et Allyn Joslyn).
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Birth name Dorothea J. Seltzer
Nationality USA
Birth 26 may 1906 at Reading (USA)
Death 21 may 1977 (at 70 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 26 may 1906 at Reading (USA)
Death 21 may 1977 (at 70 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Dorothy Christy died five days shy of her seventy-first birthday of natural causes.
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Au cinéma, Dorothy Christy contribue à une centaine de films américains, depuis le court métrage C'est ma femme de Lloyd French (1929, avec Laurel et Hardy) jusqu'à Mon grand de Robert Wise (1953, avec Jane Wyman et Sterling Hayden), après lequel elle se retire définitivement.Entretemps, citons Buster se marie d'Edward Sedgwick (1931, avec Buster Keaton et Edward Sedgwick), Les Compagnons de la nouba de William A. Seiter (1933, avec Laurel et Hardy) et Junior Miss de George Seaton (1945, avec Peggy Ann Garner et Allyn Joslyn).
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So Big (1953)
, 1h41Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Jane Wyman, Richard Beymer, Sterling Hayden, Steve Forrest, Nancy Olson, Elisabeth Fraser
Roles Widow Paarlenberg
Rating66%
In the late 1890s, boarding school student Selina Peake learns of the death of her father, who has left her penniless as the result of bad business transactions. August Hempel, the father of her best friend Julie, secures her a teaching position in New Holland, a small Dutch farming community outside Chicago. There she rents a room in the home of Klaas Pool, who lives with his unhappy wife Maartje and intelligent but troubled adolescent son Roelf.
The Fountainhead (1949)
, 1h54Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Robert Douglas, Henry Hull
Roles Society Woman (uncredited)
Rating69%
Howard Roark (Gary Cooper) is an individualistic architect who follows a new artistic path in the face of conformity and vulgar mediocrity.
Caught (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Max Ophüls
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, James Mason, Frank Ferguson, Curt Bois, Natalie Schafer
Roles Wealthy Shopper (uncredited)
Rating69%
Young model Leonora Eames marries multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig. Ohlrig though is deranged and did not marry for love. Eames insists several times that she married for love, but the film suggests that she is deluding herself. When Ohlrig becomes too abusive, she leaves him, penniless, to find a job at a medical clinic in a poor neighborhood and eventually falls for Dr. Larry Quinada.
Dream Girl (1948)
, 1h25Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Betty Hutton, Macdonald Carey, Patric Knowles, Virginia Field, Walter Abel, Lowell Gilmore
Rating54%
Silver River (1948)
, 1h50Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Monte Blue
Rating64%
During the American Civil War, soldier Mike McComb is cashiered from the army when he disobeys orders in order to prevent the Confederates from stealing the one million dollars he is guarding by burning the money. After being publicly humiliated by the townspeople, he and his friend 'Pistol' Porter confiscate gambling equipment and set out to Silver City, Nevada to open a saloon and gambling hall. On his way to St. Joseph, Mike meets Georgia Moore, a beautiful but serious woman that runs the Silver River mine with her husband Stanley and is currently hiring all the available wagons.
Fighting Back (1948)
, 1h6Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Paul Langton, Jean Rogers, Gary Gray, Joe Sawyer, Morris Ankrum, John Kellogg
Roles Martha Higby
Rating61%
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
, 1h36Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films, Children's films, Santa Claus in film
Actors Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn, Porter Hall, Gene Lockhart
Roles Secretary (uncredited)
Rating78%
Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) is indignant to find that the person (Percy Helton) assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is intoxicated. When he complains to event director Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), she persuades Kris to take his place. He does such a fine job that he is hired as the Santa for Macy's flagship New York City store in Macy's Herald Square.
Scared to Death (1947)
, 1h7Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror
Actors Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont, Joyce Compton, Roland Varno
Roles Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
Rating41%
The film opens with the disclosure by morgue examiners that a beautiful woman has literally died of fright. The plot reveals how she reached the fatal stage of terror.
, 1h50Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Dorothy Christy, Thurston Hall
Rating68%
Walter Mitty (Kaye) is an "inconsequential guy from Perth Amboy, New Jersey", henpecked and harassed by everyone in his life including his bossy mother, his overbearing, idea-stealing boss Bruce Pierce, his childishly dimwitted fiancée Gertrude Griswold, and Gertrude's obnoxious would-be suitor Tubby Wadsworth and loud-mouthed mother, Mrs. Griswold.
The Unfaithful (1947)
, 1h49Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Monte Blue, Jerome Cowan
Roles Mrs. Freedley
Rating67%
Chris Hunter stabs a man in her home one night while her husband Bob is out of town. The dead man's name is Tanner and she claims not to know him.
The Fabulous Joe (1947)
, 59minutesDirected by Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Marie Wilson, Donald Meek, Sheldon Leonard, Howard Petrie
Roles Grace
Rating63%
This script must be run from the command line
The Pilgrim Lady (1947)
, 1h7Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Alan Mowbray, Veda Ann Borg, Clarence Kolb, Helen Freeman
Roles Nell Brown
Rating59%
Undercurrent (1946)
, 1h56Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, Clinton Sundberg
Roles Gossip in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Rating64%
Ann Hamilton (Katharine Hepburn) is a middle-aged bride who begins to suspect that her charming husband Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor) plans to murder her. Nor can she ignore the shadow of her brother-in-law Michael Garroway (Robert Mitchum), whom she's never met but has been told so much about.
Little Giant (1946)
, 1h31Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, George Cleveland, Margaret Dumont, Jacqueline deWit
Roles Jim's wife (uncredited)
Rating66%
A naive country boy named Benny Miller (Lou Costello), from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Upon completion of the course, he leaves his mother (Mary Gordon) and his girlfriend Martha (Elena Verdugo) to pursue a career in Los Angeles. He arranges a meeting with his Uncle Clarence (George Cleveland), a bookkeeper with the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company. When he arrives to ask for a job, the sales manager, John Morrison (Bud Abbott), mistakes him for one of the auditioning fashion models and has him remove his clothing. Morrison's secret wife, Hazel Temple (Jacqueline deWit), discovers the mistake and suggests that Benny be hired to avoid an accounting scandal, as they have been "cooking the books". Unfortunately, Benny is fired from his salesman post after only one day. Clarence transfers Benny to the company's Stockton branch, which is run by Morrison's cousin, Tom Chandler (also played by Bud Abbott).
Army Wives (1945)
, 1h8Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Elyse Knox, Marjorie Rambeau, Rick Vallin, Dorothea Kent, Murray Alper, Hardie Albright
Roles Mrs. Lowry
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