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Dorothy Short

Dorothy Short

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.

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Movies Starring Dorothy Short (29)

Savage Fury (1956)

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

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Things We Can Do Without (1953)

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth. ...

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Bargain Madness (1951)

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

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A Wife's Life (1950)

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled. ...

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Just Suppose (1948)

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the ...

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I Love My Mother-In-Law But... (1948)

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law. ...

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I Love My Wife BUT! (1947)

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

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I Love My Husband, But! (1946)

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

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Captain Midnight (1942)

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. ...

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Bullets for Bandits (1942)

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 ...

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The Lone Rider Fights Back (1941)

Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises himself as a musician to get the goods on a gang of terrorists. The principal villain hopes to scare the local miners off their lan ...

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Spooks Run Wild (1941)

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

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Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto (1941)

Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions ...

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The Trail of the Silver Spurs (1941)

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. ...

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Pony Post (1940)

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 ...

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Frontier Crusader (1940)

A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims. ...

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Phantom Rancher (1940)

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

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Daughter of the Tong (1939)

A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring. ...

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Code of the Cactus (1939)

A story of cattle rustling and double identities. ...

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Where the Buffalo Roam (1938)

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 know ...

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Tell Your Children (1938)

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 frequ ...

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The Singing Cowgirl (1938)

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 t ...

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Heart of Arizona (1938)

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. ...

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Start Cheering (1938)

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

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Assassin of Youth (1938)

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. ...

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Brothers of the West (1937)

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. ...

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More Than a Secretary (1936)

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. ...

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The Call of the Savage (1935)

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

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Student Tour (1934)

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

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