Dorothy Short
Actor
Biography
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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 died nine years later at age 47.
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Filmography
Spooks Run Wild
as Linda Mason 1941
Assassin of Youth
as Marjorie 'Marge' Barry 1938
More Than a Secretary
as Ann (uncredited) 1936
Start Cheering
as Student 1938
Daughter of the Tong
as Marion Morgan 1939
Phantom Rancher
as Ann Markham 1940
Code of the Cactus
as Joan 1939
Where the Buffalo Roam
as Laddie Gray 1938
Heart of Arizona
as Jacqueline Starr 1938
I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
as The Wife (uncredited) 1948
Brothers of the West
as Annie Wade 1937
Captain Midnight
as Joyce Edwards 1942
Frontier Crusader
as Jenny Mason 1940
Things We Can Do Without
as Mrs. Thud (uncredited) 1953
The Trail of the Silver Spurs
as Nancy Nordick 1941
Student Tour
as Student 1934