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Dorothy DeBorba is a Actor American born on 28 march 1925 at Los Angeles (USA)

Dorothy DeBorba

Dorothy DeBorba
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Birth name Dorothy Adelle DeBorba
Nationality USA
Birth 28 march 1925 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 2 june 2010 (at 85 years) at Walnut Creek (USA)

Dorothy Adelle DeBorba (March 28, 1925 – June 2, 2010) was an American former child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933.

Usually with

Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(24 films)
Leroy Shield
Leroy Shield
(24 films)
Stymie Beard
Stymie Beard
(23 films)
Bobby Hutchins
Bobby Hutchins
(22 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dorothy DeBorba (26 films)

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Actress

Bombshell
Bombshell (1933)
, 1h36
Directed by Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Una Merkel
Roles Girl Getting Lola's Autograph at Table (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.543523.543523.543523.543523.54352
Movie star Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) is angry with her studio publicist E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Lee Tracy), who feeds the press with endless stories about her greatness. Lola's family and staff are another cause of distress for her, as everybody is always trying to take money from the actress. All Burns really wants is to live a normal life and prove to the public that she's not a sexy vamp but a proper lady. She tries to adopt a baby, but Hanlon, who secretly loves her, thwarts all her plans.
Fish Hooky
Fish Hooky (1933)

Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Stymie Beard, Dickie Moore, Bobby Hutchins, George McFarland, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobbie Beard
Roles Dorothy
Rating75% 3.76023.76023.76023.76023.7602
Wheezer, Dickie, Uh-huh, and Stymie choose to play hooky from school again to go fishing with Joe and Farina. Meanwhile, Miss Kornman is taking her students to the beach and amusement pier free of charge. Spanky and Cotton deliver sick notes forged for Dickie, Stymie, and Wheezer by Joe and Farina to Miss Kornman, stating why they were absent. Truant officer Mickey Daniels decides to teach the boys a lesson.
Forgotten Babies
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors George McFarland, Dickie Moore, Dorothy DeBorba, Stymie Beard, Tommy Bond, Bobby Hutchins
Roles Dorothy
Rating77% 3.899093.899093.899093.899093.89909
The gang tries to escape their babysitting chores by coercing Spanky (George McFarland) to mind their baby brothers and sisters while they go swimming. Unfortunately, the infants would prefer to run (or crawl) amok, forcing Spanky to take desperate measures.
The Kid from Borneo
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Gus Leonard, George McFarland, Dickie Moore, Marcia Mae Jones, Stymie Beard, Dorothy DeBorba
Roles Dorothy
Rating77% 3.8681753.8681753.8681753.8681753.868175
Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's Uncle George are in town. Uncle George manages a show called "Wild Man from Borneo", featuring a foreigner with a mentality of a seven-year-old child. The kids' father refuses to let the real Uncle George come over so their mother has the kids visit him at the show's location. Their mother explains to the kids that Uncle George is the black sheep of the family.
Mush and Milk
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Stymie Beard, George McFarland, Dickie Moore, Tommy Bond, James Finlayson, Dorothy DeBorba
Roles Dorothy
Rating74% 3.716963.716963.716963.716963.71696
The children live in the Bleak Hill boarding school, where they are yelled at, punished, and browbeaten by the ghastly old headmistress. The day begins with the headmistress waking the boys up and telling them to get their chores done or they will get a beating and nothing to eat. In school, however, they are taught by the headmistress' husband, the gentle and lovable Old Cap, who runs the school in an informal manner. Cap wants to do something nice for the children, since their school meals usually consist of mush and milk. Just as the headmistress leaves the boys' sleeping quarters, Old Cap comes in to say hi to them. At that time, he promises that when he gets his back pension they will all leave that place and live well with tons of presents for the children. After the boys are up, the headmistress tells the boys to milk the cow and that they will be thrashed if they spill any.
Birthday Blues
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Dickie Moore, George McFarland, Stymie Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Kendall McComas, Bobbie Beard
Roles Dorothy
Rating75% 3.757813.757813.757813.757813.75781
When their pennypinching father refuses to buy a birthday gift for their long-suffering mother, brothers Dickie and Spanky decide to purchase a gift for Mom on their own. Unfortunately, the "late 1922 model" dress they have selected is beyond their price range (a daunting $1.98); thus, acting upon the advice of Stymie, Dickie and Spanky decide to bake a cake with hidden prizes, then auction off the cake at ten cents a slice.
Choo-Choo!
Choo-Choo! (1932)
, 20minutes
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors George McFarland, Stymie Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobby Hutchins, Kendall McComas, Sherwood Bailey
Roles Dorothy
Rating74% 3.7194553.7194553.7194553.7194553.719455
Exchanging clothes with a group of mischievous orphans, the kids end up on a train headed for Chicago. Pressed into service as the kids' supervisor, effeminate Travelers Aid attendant Mr. Henderson (Dell Henderson) suffers torment, especially when he tries to prevent three-year-old Spanky from socking the nose of every adult in sight.
Free Eats
Free Eats (1932)

Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Stymie Beard, George McFarland, Billy Gilbert, Kendall McComas, Dell Henderson, Bobby Hutchins
Roles Dorothy
Rating76% 3.8086953.8086953.8086953.8086953.808695
The gang along with other poor children in the town are given a party with games and great food to eat. In addition, each child would be given a food basket to bring home to their parents. Its given by a wealthy woman whose husband is running for office. Meanwhile a couple criminals have set up two midgets to come to the party as babies. They would steal tons of expensive jewelry and planned on robbing a safe filled with tons of money. Stymie caught the "fidgets" in the safe. The rest of the gang come to Stymie's rescue as the midgets pull a gun. An alarm goes off and the police come and arrest the midgets and all ends well.
Free Wheeling
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Dickie Moore, Stymie Beard, George McFarland, Dorothy DeBorba, Kendall McComas, Jacquie Lyn
Roles Dorothy
Rating77% 3.861863.861863.861863.861863.86186
Confined to a neck brace, poor little rich boy Dickie would like to play with the neighborhood kids, but his overprotective mother will not let him. On the sly, however, Dickie sneaks out of his bedroom in search of adventure in the company of his best pal, Stymie. Purchasing a ride on the donkey-driven "taxicab" piloted by Breezy Brisbane, the boys, along with hitchhikers Spanky and Jacquie Lyn, experience enough thrills and excitement to last a lifetime when the taxi begins rolling down a steep hill minus brakes.
Hook and Ladder
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Dickie Moore, George McFarland, Stymie Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Sherwood Bailey, Buddy McDonald
Roles Dorothy
Rating76% 3.813563.813563.813563.813563.81356
Answering the Fire Chief's request for volunteers, the Our Gang kids form their own firefighting squadron, replete with ersatz uniforms, a fire pole, a dog-and-cat-powered alarm, and a jerry-built fire engine that must be seen to be believed. After a few false alarms and delays, the kids are afforded the opportunity to put out a real fire, which they do with the expertise of veteran smoke-eaters.
A Lad an' a Lamp
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Stymie Beard, George McFarland, Bobbie Beard, Dickie Moore, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobby Hutchins
Roles Dorothy
Rating74% 3.71393.71393.71393.71393.7139
Fascinated by the story of Aladdin and his magic lamp, the gang gather together with several gasoline and kerosene lamps and lanterns and a few electric lamps hoping that by rubbing them vigorously, a genie will appear. Thanks to a series of coincidences—not least of which involves a friendly stage magician—the kids become convinced that they have succeeded in invoking Aladdin. But their excitement turns to dismay when Stymie believes Spanky has transformed his kid brother Cotton into a monkey.
The Pooch
The Pooch (1932)

Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Stymie Beard, George McFarland, Dorothy DeBorba, Kendall McComas, Bobby Hutchins, Sherwood Bailey
Roles Dorothy
Rating74% 3.71393.71393.71393.71393.7139
Cheerful vagrant Stymie tries to get back in the good graces of the gang after stealing their pies. When a mean dogcatcher (Budd Fine) tries to round up Pete the Pup, Stymie comes to the rescue, earning the undying devotion of the kids and the animosity of the dogcatcher, who vengefully bundles Petey off to the pound, intending to consign the poor pooch to the gas chamber. Desperately, Stymie prays for the five dollars necessary to spring Pete, whereupon a five-spot blows out of the hands of a lady shopper and lands at Stymie's feet. After out smarting a cop, with the help of Spanky, that was in pursuit to take it back he and the gang race to the dog pound. Upon arriving the dog catcher says that he already gassed Petey and was dead. Stymie and the gang sulk as another employee of the pound tells them Petey isn't dead. It turns out there wasn't any gas in the cylinders and Petey was just sitting alive in the chamber when opened. It ends with Petey chasing the dog catcher for revenge with the gang following.
Readin' and Writin'
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Kendall McComas, Stymie Beard, Sherwood Bailey, Bobby Hutchins, Dorothy DeBorba, Carlena Beard
Roles Dorothy
Rating73% 3.650573.650573.650573.650573.65057
It is the first day of school and children are beginning school for the first time. Breezy Brisbane is returning for another year. His mother tells him that he is to study hard in school and that he will be president some day. He answers back that he does not want to be president and wants to be a street car conductor, because "Boy, do they pick up the nickels!". Brisbane then visits the blacksmith who gives him some encouraging words. Brisbane makes a wise remark, angering the blacksmith who tells Brisbane of a kid that got expelled back when he was a child. Brisbane then gets some bright ideas to get himself kicked out of school.
Spanky
Spanky (1932)

Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors George McFarland, Kendall McComas, Bobby Hutchins, Stymie Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Sherwood Bailey
Roles Dorothy/Little Eva
Rating76% 3.8404553.8404553.8404553.8404553.840455
Although this is a remake of a 1920's silent Our Gang episode called Uncle Tom's Uncle, the main character is Spanky. Early scenes of this film were part of Spanky's screen test taken back in April 1931 during his first visit to Hal Roach Studios. It included him bug hunting. Meanwhile, his brother Breezy Brisbane and the rest of the gang are putting on a play of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Brisbane is forced to supervise Spanky. Also, Spanky's dad refuses to spend money in order to keep the house clean though he has tons of it hidden in a closet.
The Stolen Jools, 20minutes
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, John G. Adolfi, William C. McGann, Victor Heerman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Jack Hill, Jack Hill, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles Echo
Rating57% 2.8524052.8524052.8524052.8524052.852405
At the "Screen Stars Annual Ball", Norma Shearer has her jewels stolen. The police must find them and return them to her.