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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1915-06-29 (109 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Dorothy Short

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.

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Known For

Acting

1956

Savage Fury as Mona Andrews

1953

Things We Can Do Without as Mrs. Thud (uncredited)

1951

Bargain Madness as Dorothy (uncredited)

1950

A Wife's Life as Mrs. George T. Hardnose

1948

I Love My Mother-In-Law But... as The Wife (uncredited)
Just Suppose as Wife (uncredited)

1947

I Love My Wife BUT! as The Wife (uncredited)

1946

I Love My Husband, But! as The Wife (uncredited)

1942

Captain Midnight as Joyce Edwards
Bullets for Bandits as Dakota Brown

1941

1940

Phantom Rancher as Ann Markham
Pony Post as Alice Goodwin
Frontier Crusader as Jenny Mason

1939

1938

Where the Buffalo Roam as Laddie Gray
The Singing Cowgirl as Nora Pryde
Start Cheering as Student
Heart of Arizona as Jacqueline Starr
Assassin of Youth as Marjorie 'Marge' Barry

1937

Brothers of the West as Annie Wade

1936

More Than a Secretary as Ann (uncredited)

1935

The Call of the Savage as Mona Andrews

1934

Student Tour as Student