Dorothy Short
Actor · 1915 – 1963 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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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Movie6.9ComedyMusicAfter retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Start Cheering
1938 · 8 votes
Movie4.4DramaHigh-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
Tell Your Children
1938 · 140 votes
Movie5.5WesternTex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when Tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death.
Where the Buffalo Roam
1938 · 4 votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceWhen the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.
More Than a Secretary
1936 · 13 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAn off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.
Just Suppose
1948 · 2 votes
Movie6.0AdventureTwo competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
The Call of the Savage
1935 · 2 votes
Movie6.3AdventureActionSecret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America.
Captain Midnight
1942 · 3 votes
Movie5.1ComedyHorrorA group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Spooks Run Wild
1941 · 26 votes
MovieWesternOpera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises himself as a musician to get the goods on a gang of terrorists. The principal villain hopes to scare the local miners off their land, so he can move in and clean up.
Movie6.0WesternThe Range Busters are investigating a gold robbery from the Denver Mint in a supposedly deserted ghost town, but they soon find they're not the only town resident with a nose for gold.
The Trail of the Silver Spurs
1941 · 3 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
I Love My Wife BUT!
1947 · 3 votes
Movie5.2CrimeThrillerA detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
Daughter of the Tong
1939 · 6 votes
Movie6.2ActionWesternWhen Blackton outbids Bill Carson. Bill suspects he will have to rustle cattle to fulfill the contract. So Bill arrives posing as an Mexican. When he rustles the cattle from the rustlers, it gets him into the gang. Hoping to bring them all to justice, he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
Code of the Cactus
1939 · 5 votes
Movie6.3WesternTyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president. To prove him innocent, Tyler must decipher his only clue, an unusual set of tire tracks.
Brothers of the West
1937 · 3 votes
Movie10.0WesternActionRancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.
Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
1941 · 1 votes
Movie4.6WesternRomanceCowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
Phantom Rancher
1940 · 5 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
A Wife's Life
1950 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaWesternSeeking his brother’s murderer, cowboy Jack Gray and his sidekick Lopez sign on for work at a horse ranch where the foreman is up to no good.
Wild Horse Canyon
1938 · 1 votes
Movie7.3ComedyA Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth.
Things We Can Do Without
1953 · 3 votes
- Movie7.2Comedy
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law.
I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
1948 · 5 votes
Movie6.7MusicA philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Student Tour
1934 · 3 votes
Movie8.0WesternAtkins is the boss of one of the Pony Express relay stations. He has been causing trouble and is replaced with Cal Sheridan. Atkins now gets the Richard brothers to raid one of the relay stations and they kill Norma's father. Cal sees that the horse of one of the raiders has a broken shoe and Norma sets out to find that horse.
Pony Post
1940 · 1 votes
Movie7.5WesternTolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
The Singing Cowgirl
1938 · 2 votes
Movie2.9DramaComedyA high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
Assassin of Youth
1938 · 18 votes