Dorothy Christy
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Dorothy Christy (born Dorothea J. Seltzer, May 26, 1906 – died May 21, 1977) was an American actress.
Christy acted with Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers, and with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the film Sons of the Desert (1933), in the role of Mrs. Laurel. She was Queen Tika of Murania in The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry’s 1935 cliffhanger serial. She concluded her cinema career in 1953.
Dorothy Christy died of natural causes five days shy of her seventy-first birthday.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.428 |
| Birthday | 1906-05-26 |
| Place of Birth | Reading, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | Dorothea J. Seltzer, Dorothy Christie, |
1930
She Got What She Wanted
0/0
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their che...
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She Got What She Wanted
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
6/5
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1935
I've Been Around
2.5/2
Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.
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I've Been Around
1931
King of the Wild
3.2/5
Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
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King of the Wild
1933
Sons of the Desert
7.035/230
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
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Sons of the Desert
1931
Convicted
4.5/4
A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
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Convicted
1931
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
5.4/26
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets marrie...
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
1944
Cowboy and the Senorita
5/2
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and usin...
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Cowboy and the Senorita
1992
Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
6.5/2
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
1945
Fashion Model
3/2
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
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Fashion Model
1947
Scared to Death
4.2/30
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor...
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Scared to Death
1931
Big Business Girl
5.5/2
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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Big Business Girl
1940
Men with Steel Faces
5/6
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
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Men with Steel Faces
1934
6 Day Bike Rider
5.5/2
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
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6 Day Bike Rider
1943
Cutie on Duty
0/0
Leon Errol buys his wife a gift.
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Cutie on Duty
1930
Extravagance
4/7
Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice's mother has impoverished herself to provide Al...
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Extravagance
1935
The Phantom Empire
5.5/12
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles...
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The Phantom Empire
1931
Gold Dust Gertie
3/1
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
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Gold Dust Gertie
1932
The Arm of the Law
4.5/2
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
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The Arm of the Law
1931
Grief Street
4.1/9
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing ro...
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Grief Street
1930
Playboy of Paris
7/2
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philib...
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Playboy of Paris
1932
Slightly Married
5.3/3
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up...
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Slightly Married
1931
Caught Cheating
0/0
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
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Caught Cheating
1947
The Pilgrim Lady
5/1
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing rad...
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The Pilgrim Lady
1937
Topper
6.8/116
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of thei...
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Topper
1932
The Unexpected Father
0/0
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's...
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The Unexpected Father
1938
Woman Against Woman
6.5/2
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Woman Against Woman
1948
Fighting Back
6/2
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
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Fighting Back
1953
So Big
5.6/11
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.
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So Big
1937
You Can't Have Everything
5.7/3
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon t...
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You Can't Have Everything
1931
No, No, Lady
0/0
When the story begins, a couple are rehearsing a play...one that is REALLY hard to believe. In the play, the cheating wife convinces her mousy and ine...
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No, No, Lady
1934
Million Dollar Ransom
0/0
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Million Dollar Ransom
1939
Rough Riders' Round-up
6/2
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost,...
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Rough Riders' Round-up
1934
One Exciting Adventure
0/0
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One Exciting Adventure
1939
East Side of Heaven
7.1/6
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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East Side of Heaven
1939
They Shall Have Music
5.9/7
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the...
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They Shall Have Music
1933
The Big Squeal
0/0
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York has a stock yard district)looking for his girl frien...
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The Big Squeal
1949
Caught
6.5/87
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, vio...
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Caught
1941
Sailors on Leave
0/0
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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Sailors on Leave
1938
Submarine Patrol
6.6/5
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Submarine Patrol
1929
That's My Wife
6.75/22
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just...
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That's My Wife
1941
Sierra Sue
0/0
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until...
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Sierra Sue
1947
Miracle on 34th Street
7.4/721
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgivin...
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Miracle on 34th Street
1935
The Daring Young Man
0/0
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...
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The Daring Young Man
1931
Night Life in Reno
4.1/7
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy...
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Night Life in Reno
1944
Laura
7.6/791
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Laura
1932
Devil and the Deep
4.9/9
Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavi...
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Devil and the Deep
1937
Love Is News
6/9
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are e...
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Love Is News
1940
City of Chance
5.2/7
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
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City of Chance
1946
The Magnificent Rogue
5/2
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
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The Magnificent Rogue
1945
Flame of Barbary Coast
5.6/16
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell...
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Flame of Barbary Coast
1930
She Who Gets Slapped
8/1
A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
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She Who Gets Slapped
1942
Sunset on the Desert
5.8/4
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is...
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Sunset on the Desert
1936
Early to Bed
7/1
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...
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Early to Bed
1931
The Devil Plays
4.5/10
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
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The Devil Plays
1937
Slave Ship
4.8/6
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Slave Ship
1942
Get Hep to Love
4/1
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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Get Hep to Love
1945
Junior Miss
7.5/2
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been...
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Junior Miss
1934
Love Birds
6/1
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crow...
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Love Birds
1934
Bright Eyes
6.6/24
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for c...
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Bright Eyes
1942
Dear! Deer!
0/0
Errol goes to a convention with his pal, but upon his return tells his wife he was on a deer hunting trip, and then lapses into amnesia.
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Dear! Deer!
1930
So This Is London
0/0
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Juni...
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So This Is London
1943
Double Up
0/0
Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.
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Double Up
1943
Gem-Jams
0/0
Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious.
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Gem-Jams
1943
Radio Runaround
0/0
As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon has forgotten their wedding anniversary. With the help o...
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Radio Runaround
1946
Undercurrent
5.8/47
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant...
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Undercurrent
1947
The Unfaithful
6/19
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her l...
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The Unfaithful
1933
Only Yesterday
6.8/5
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in h...
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Only Yesterday
1949
The Fountainhead
6.827/142
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...
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The Fountainhead
1946
Little Giant
5.3/19
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thum...
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Little Giant
1945
Black Market Babies
5/5
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wi...
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Black Market Babies
1938
Marie Antoinette
6.288/26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
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Marie Antoinette
1930
Big Money
0/0
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
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Big Money
1932
Union Depot
6.1/14
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend S...
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Union Depot
1947
The Fabulous Joe
5.8/4
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he retu...
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The Fabulous Joe
1932
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
0/0
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
1934
Servants' Entrance
0/0
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda fa...
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