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Actor
Dorothy Short
Acting
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Movies: 25Series: 0
TMDB ID: 118630
IMDb ID: nm0795044
Known for: Acting
Born: June 29, 1915
Died: June 4, 1963
Age: 47
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1934 - 1956
Years active: 23
Average TMDB rating: 4.6
Wikidata: Q5298630
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.
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Savage Fury
as Mona Andrews
1956 Movie
6.0
Things We Can Do Without
as Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
1953 Movie
7.0
Bargain Madness
as Dorothy (uncredited)
1951 Movie
6.0
Just Suppose
as Wife (uncredited)
1948 Movie
5.0
Captain Midnight
as Joyce Edwards
1942 Movie
Bullets for Bandits
as Dakota Brown
1942 Movie
The Lone Rider Fights Back
as Jean Dennison
1941 Movie
4.9
Spooks Run Wild
as Linda Mason
1941 Movie
Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
as Ruth Wade
1941 Movie
4.5
The Trail of the Silver Spurs
as Nancy Nordick
1941 Movie
Pony Post
as Alice Goodwin
1940 Movie
3.0
Frontier Crusader
as Jenny Mason
1940 Movie
3.5
Phantom Rancher
as Ann Markham
1940 Movie
4.2
Daughter of the Tong
as Marion Morgan
1939 Movie
5.5
Code of the Cactus
as Joan
1939 Movie
5.0
Where the Buffalo Roam
as Laddie Gray
1938 Movie
4.3
Tell Your Children
as Mary
1938 Movie
5.0
The Singing Cowgirl
as Nora Pryde
1938 Movie
5.0
Heart of Arizona
as Jacqueline Starr
1938 Movie
7.0
Start Cheering
as Student
1938 Movie
2.7
Assassin of Youth
as Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
1938 Movie
6.0
Brothers of the West
as Annie Wade
1937 Movie
6.4
More Than a Secretary
as Ann (uncredited)
1936 Movie
5.0
The Call of the Savage
as Mona Andrews
1935 Movie