The best Dorothy Appleby’s movies

Dorothy Appleby

Dorothy Appleby

06/01/1906- 09/08/1990
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Stagecoach

Stagecoach
7.8/10
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

High Sierra

High Sierra
7.5/10
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

The Women

The Women
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1939
  • Character: Treatment Girl (uncredited)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Gold Rush Maisie

Gold Rush Maisie
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1940
  • Character: Hatcheck Girl (Uncredited)
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.

Manpower

Manpower
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/08/1941
  • Character: Wilma
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

Let 'em Have It

Let 'em Have It
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/05/1935
  • Character: Lola McArdle
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Riffraff

Riffraff
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/01/1936
  • Character: Gertie
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.

General Nuisance

General Nuisance
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/09/1941
  • Character: Dorothy - Army nurse
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp Cluster. She still has no time for him, so he figures out how to get into the hospital and under her care.

Live, Love and Learn

Live, Love and Learn
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/10/1937
  • Character: Lou - Bob's Model (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.

Under Eighteen

Under Eighteen
6.6/10
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.

Charlie Chan in Paris

Charlie Chan in Paris
7.1/10
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.

Convicted Woman

Convicted Woman
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/01/1940
  • Character: Daisy
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

As the Earth Turns

As the Earth Turns
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/02/1934
  • Character: Doris
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

School for Girls

School for Girls
7.2/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 22/03/1934
  • Character: Florence Burns
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.

When Tomorrow Comes

When Tomorrow Comes
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/08/1939
  • Character: Waitress
Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces then to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night.

The Flying Irishman

The Flying Irishman
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Maybelle
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.

Two Heads on a Pillow

Two Heads on a Pillow
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/10/1934
  • Character: Mitzie LaVerne
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.

What's the Matador?

What's the Matador?
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/04/1942
  • Character: O'Brien's Secretary
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.

The Taming of the Snood

The Taming of the Snood
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/06/1940
  • Character: Miss Wilson
A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.

Nothing But Pleasure

Nothing But Pleasure
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/01/1940
  • Character: Mrs. Plunkett
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.

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