The best Dorothy Abbott’s drama movies

Dorothy Abbott

Dorothy Abbott

16/12/1920- 15/12/1968
Today we present the best Dorothy Abbott’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Dorothy Abbott’s movies.
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Little Women

Little Women
7.2/10
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

The Apartment

The Apartment
8.3/10
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1955
  • Character: Nurse (uncredited)
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business
6.4/10
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Where Danger Lives

Where Danger Lives
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/11/1950
  • Character: Nurse Clerk (uncredited)
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.

A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1950
  • Character: Model (uncredited)
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 13/10/1948
  • Character: Maid (uncredited)
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?

Words and Music

Words and Music
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 31/12/1948
  • Character: Showgirl (uncredited)
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.

Beyond Glory

Beyond Glory
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/08/1948
  • Character: Party Girl (uncredited)
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.

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