Dorothy Devore
Also Known As: Alma Inez Williams, Dorothy De Vore
Biography: Dorothy Devore (June 22, 1899 – September 10, 1976) was a leading and popular American silent-film actor and comedian in her time. Born as Alma Inez Williams in Fort Worth, Texas in 1899, her family soon moved to Los Angeles when she was still a young girl. It was there where she completed her education and then joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for one year. She then went to Lyons and Moran comedies at Universal Pictures. It was at Universal where she was "discovered" by director/producer Al Christie, one of the most famous comedic moviemakers of the era. She began playing in small parts in films for Christie, but soon received leads and moved from one-reelers to two-reelers, which would make her a star. Dorothy became very popular in the film industry during the period of 1918 until the late 1920s. She was a talented actress, specializing especially in comedic roles, for which she is remembered, such as in Know Thy Wife (1918), directed by Al Christie. Dorothy was chosen as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923. During a good deal of her career, she achieved stardom in the comedic two-reel Christie Comedies, released through Educational. When the chance arose for Dorothy to begin making longer, feature films, she decided to stay with what she was doing at that moment: two-reelers, where she had already attracted a good deal of attention. A little time after her career kicked off, Christie loaned her out to play the female lead opposite Charles Ray in 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920), in which she had great success. Following this film, she declined several feature film offers and immediately returned to two-reelers. She made several successful films which established her as one of the screen's most talented comedians of the era. She made her last film, Take the Heir, in 1930, and began her retirement from the movies. She married theater owner Albert Wylie Mather in 1926. Devore died in 1976 in Woodland Hills, California, aged 77, from undisclosed causes. --From Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 20, 1899
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 10, 1976
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Take the Heir
Overview: A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy young man he's impersonating, sets her sights on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-15
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Magnificent Brute
Overview: French Canadian trapper Victor Raoul returns to the trading post at St. Ignace to find a rival for the affections of Yvonne, his business partner's daughter, in the Marquis Courtière, Parisian representative of the fur company. Raoul quarrels with Fontaine over the visitor's business dealings and his attentions to Yvonne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-12
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The Midnight Flyer
Overview: The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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45 Minutes from Broadway
Overview: Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-30
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Know Thy Wife
Overview: Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-30
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Stay Single
Overview: After Felix Valle helps rescue next door neighbor Dorothy Devore's dog from the over-zealous dog catcher, she agrees to help him get a raise in salary by pretending to be his wife. Meanwhile, her jealous husband is bringing home Felix' boss for a deal...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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Senor Daredevil
Overview: Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger" O'Flagherty (George Nichols), the supervisor of a supply-wagon train destined for the miners in Sonora. Tiger is being terrorized by Jesse Wilks (J.P. McGowan), who hopes to starve the miners out of their claims. Falling in love with Tiger's ward, Sally (Dorothy Devore), Don Luis manages to turn the tables on Wilks, who is killed attempting to rob the supply train.
Genres: Action Western Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-01
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Miracle on Main Street
Overview: On Christmas Eve in the Spanish quarter of L.A. police try to arrest a couple running a shady floor show. Hiding in a church, the young woman finds an abandoned baby and uses it as cover to escape capture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-19
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Navy Blues
Overview: The Warrens have a full dress Navy wedding, but to sneak out on the reception guests, Dorothy disguises herself as a sailor. But she's caught up with a group of real sailors and finds herself aboard a battleship. Incredibly, nobody spots her as a small female impostor, causes foul ups and gets chased around the decks and cannons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-16
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Winter Has Came
Overview: A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-06
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'Twas Midnight
Overview: Dorothy Devore rejects her suiter, a boring bank clerk, so he schemes and frames a bank robbery to excite her. He even brings her along.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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Nothing Like It
Overview: The comic mishaps of an ambitious literary society that attempts to produce a Roman tragedy written by one of its members.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-07
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The Tomboy
Overview: Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-26
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Hold Your Breath
Overview: When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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The House Cleaning Horrors
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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The Prairie Wife
Overview: While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail, who is equally broke though he owns grainland in the West. Duncan and Chaddie are married and go west to homestead. Duncan hires Ollie, a Swedish caretaker, who frightens Chaddie. When business takes Duncan away, Chaddie goes to take care of Percy Woodhouse, an Englishman who has become ill at his place fifteen miles away. Her horse runs away, and she is forced to spend the night there. She sleeps under a wagon, but Duncan is nevertheless angry and jealous.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-23
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A Broadway Butterfly
Overview: Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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The Narrow Street
Overview: Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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The Gilded Highway
Overview: After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marriage engagements. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-13
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His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Overview: His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-14
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Saving Sister Susie
Overview: Susie is forced to dress as a little girl by her mother and sister to make her less attractive to a man her sister hopes to woo. Susie, however, is determined to get her man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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The Wrong Mr. Wright
Overview: Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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Pick and Shovel
Overview: Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-16
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The Man Upstairs
Overview: The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-22
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Kidding Katie
Overview: A 1923 Christie comedy starring Babe London and Dorothy Devore. Queenie (London) has sent a picture of her sister Katie (Devore) to her pen pal as if it was her. Now that the pen pal is in love and coming to meet Queenie in person, Katie has to pretend she is a child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Getting Gertie's Goat
Overview: Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-09
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Who Cares
Overview: Who Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Dorothy Devore. It is preserved in the Library of Congress's collection. It is based upon a novel by Cosmo Hamilton which had been previously filmed in 1919 as Who Cares? Real-life husband and wife, actors Vera and Ralph Lewis, play grandparents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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How Baxter Butted In
Overview: Poor Henry Baxter, a lowly clerk in a newspaper office, is in love with Beulah, the beautiful office stenographer, but Beulah barely knows he exists. As if Henry's unrequited love isn't bad enough, he has to put up with office manager Higgins, a devious bully who is Henry's constant nemesis. Unable to win the lovely Beulah on his own, Henry resorts to flights of fantasy where he gets to play the hero, win Beulah and vanquish the evil Higgins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-25
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String Beans
Overview: Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-22
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The Girl Dodger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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The Law of the North
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-29
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