Dorothy Short
Also Known As: Mrs. Dave O'Brien
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Short, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 29, 1915
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 04, 1963
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Spooks Run Wild
Overview: A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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Tell Your Children
Overview: 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 frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-15
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Phantom Rancher
Overview: Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-31
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Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
Overview: 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 that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.
Genres: Western Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-05
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Brothers of the West
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-29
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Daughter of the Tong
Overview: A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Overview: 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 knows is responsible for his Mother's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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The Singing Cowgirl
Overview: 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 the brother offer to swap ranches.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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Pony Post
Overview: 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 of the raiders has a broken shoe and Norma sets out to find that horse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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More Than a Secretary
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-10
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Code of the Cactus
Overview: A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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Captain Midnight
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-15
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Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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The Call of the Savage
Overview: Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Frontier Crusader
Overview: A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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Things We Can Do Without
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-05
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Heart of Arizona
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-22
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The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-04
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Student Tour
Overview: A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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I Love My Husband, But!
Overview: In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-07
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Bullets for Bandits
Overview: 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 and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-12
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The Lone Rider Fights Back
Overview: 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 land, so he can move in and clean up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-17
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I Love My Wife BUT!
Overview: In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-05
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A Wife's Life
Overview: In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Assassin of Youth
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-23
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Just Suppose
Overview: 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 way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-17
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Bargain Madness
Overview: In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-04
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Savage Fury
Overview: Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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