Dorothy Dix
Also Known As: Dorothy Thye
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 07, 1910
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 15, 2006
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Trimmed in Furs
Overview: Bill's wife insists that he get her a fur coat, and since he cannot afford to buy one, he goes on a hunting trip, hoping to capture some furs himself. Meanwhile, a temperamental actress, needing a rest for her nerves, has made plans to visit the same hunting lodge where Bill will be staying. They and several others meet at the lodge, resulting in chaos and confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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Hollywood Trouble
Overview: An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Super Snooper
Overview: Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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The Gold Ghost
Overview: Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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Guns and Guitars
Overview: A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-22
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The Nevada Buckaroo
Overview: When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-28
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Torchy's Night Cap
Overview: Ray Cooke is Torchy the Office boy, told to deliver a letter; through a series of accidents, he winds up with the letter torn and can't explain it to his boss because reason. Later, he tries to help two friends elope, which eventually brings us back to the first sequence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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Torchy
Overview: Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-04
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Torchy Passes the Buck
Overview: Torchy (Ray Cooke) is an office boy....sort of like a secretary that does a variety of tasks for the boss. Well, when the boss is out one day, a friend of Torchy's has friends come to see him. Torchy wants his friend to make a great impression, so he sneaks him into the boss' office and has him pose as the boss! Soon, however, the boss arrives but instead of exposing the ruse, he goes along with it. But he also convinces Torchy to do a job for him...to sneak some venison past the game warden. It seems the boss wants to serve it to friends and win some odd bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-06
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Torchy Raises the Auntie
Overview: Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Torchy Turns the Trick
Overview: When he bother can't take Dorothy Dix to a fancy dinner, office boy Ray Cooke escorts her. He also has a chance to win a contract for the business by reuniting a visiting prince with his declasse sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-07
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Drum Taps
Overview: Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the Sheriff is on Ken's side, and with the help of his brother Earl's Boy Scout troup they go after the gang.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-23
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Wheels of Destiny
Overview: Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later identifies Rocky and his men as the attackers. Expelled from the wagon train, they stampede a buffalo herd puting the Indians on the warpath. After the Indians attack the wagon train, Rocky thinks he can get the map.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Elinor Norton
Overview: A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Dollar Dizzy
Overview: Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money. Charlie gets word that a rich uncle has died, leaving him millions. Attorneys advise him to repair to a resort and avoid gold diggers. Once there, word spreads among the single women, and several try to ensnare him. At first he's gullible, then he cottons on, so when Thelma, a wealthy young woman, mistakes him for a fortune hunter, he dismisses her as well. A manager's error puts Charlie and Thelma in the same suite, and both think the other is prospecting. A dressing gown, radio, bare feet, pistol, keyhole, fountain pen, bedcovers, and a suspicious hotel detective join the mix-up. But wait, was the inheritance a mistake?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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Music Is Magic
Overview: An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Sunset of Power
Overview: Sunset of Power is regarded as one of Buck Jones' more meritorious Universal westerns. The heavy of the piece, grim-visaged cattle baron Neil Brannum, drives everyone around him mercilessly, including his own granddaughter Ruth. In retaliation, a caped-and-masked Spanish bandido stages nightly raids on Brannum's spread.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-22
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The First Mrs Fraser
Overview: 'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-18
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A Midsummer Night's Steam
Overview: A silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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