Dorothy Short
Actor
- Born
- June 29, 1915 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- June 4, 1963 (age 47)
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Dorothy Short (1915 - 1963) was an American film actress mainly in low-budget westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
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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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Known for
Tell Your Children
June 15, 1938
Spooks Run Wild
October 24, 1941
Assassin of Youth
February 23, 1938
More Than a Secretary
December 10, 1936
Start Cheering
March 3, 1938
Daughter of the Tong
August 28, 1939
Phantom Rancher
March 31, 1940
Code of the Cactus
February 25, 1939
Where the Buffalo Roam
October 12, 1938
Heart of Arizona
April 22, 1938
Bargain Madness
July 4, 1951
Brothers of the West
June 29, 1937
Acting30
- 1956Savage Fury as Mona Andrews
- 1953Things We Can Do Without as Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
- 1951Bargain Madness as Dorothy (uncredited)
- 1950A Wife's Life as Mrs. George T. Hardnose
- 1948Just Suppose as Wife (uncredited)
- 1948I Love My Mother-In-Law But... as The Wife (uncredited)
- 1947I Love My Wife BUT! as The Wife (uncredited)
- 1946I Love My Husband, But! as The Wife (uncredited)
- 1942Captain Midnight as Joyce Edwards
- 1942