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Dorothy Short
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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.
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 di…
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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.
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Savage Fury
as Mona Andrews
Things We Can Do Without
as Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
Bargain Madness
as Dorothy (uncredited)
No Poster
A Wife's Life
as Mrs. George T. Hardnose
Just Suppose
as Wife (uncredited)
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I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
as The Wife (uncredited)
No Poster
I Love My Wife BUT!
as The Wife (uncredited)
No Poster
I Love My Husband, But!
as The Wife (uncredited)
Captain Midnight
as Joyce Edwards
Bullets for Bandits
as Dakota Brown
The Lone Rider Fights Back
as Jean Dennison
Spooks Run Wild
as Linda Mason
Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
as Ruth Wade
The Trail of the Silver Spurs
as Nancy Nordick
Pony Post
as Alice Goodwin
Frontier Crusader
as Jenny Mason
Phantom Rancher
as Ann Markham
Daughter of the Tong
as Marion Morgan
Code of the Cactus
as Joan
Wild Horse Canyon
as Jean Hall
Where the Buffalo Roam
as Laddie Gray
Tell Your Children
as Mary
The Singing Cowgirl
as Nora Pryde
Heart of Arizona
as Jacqueline Starr
Start Cheering
as Student
Assassin of Youth
as Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
Brothers of the West
as Annie Wade
More Than a Secretary
as Ann (uncredited)
The Call of the Savage
as Mona Andrews
Student Tour
as Student