The best Dorothy Morris’s movies

Dorothy Morris

Dorothy Morris

23/02/1922- 20/11/2011
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Seconds
7.6/10
A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.

The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy
7/10
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

Macabre

Macabre
5.7/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 01/10/1958
  • Character: Alice Wetherby Barrett
A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.

Cry 'Havoc'

Cry 'Havoc'
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 23/11/1943
  • Character: Sue
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.

Young Ideas

Young Ideas
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/08/1943
  • Character: Co-ed
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.

Seven Sweethearts

Seven Sweethearts
6.5/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 13/11/1942
  • Character: Peter Van Maaster
Little Deft Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 06/09/1945
  • Character: Ingeborg Jensen
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world and experience the ups and downs of life as the season pass.

Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After
5.8/10
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Whistling in the Dark

Whistling in the Dark
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 08/08/1941
  • Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.

Maisie Gets Her Man

Maisie Gets Her Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/06/1942
  • Character: Frawley Frolics Girl (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?

Somewhere I'll Find You

Somewhere I'll Find You
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 27/08/1942
  • Character: Woman in Private Dining Room
Brothers feud over a girl they both fall for while covering World War II.

This Time for Keeps

This Time for Keeps
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/03/1942
  • Character: Edith Bryant
A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.

Rationing

Rationing
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/03/1944
  • Character: Dorothy Tuttle
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.

Rio Rita

Rio Rita
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/03/1942
  • Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

The Youngest Profession

The Youngest Profession
6/10
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.

Club Havana

Club Havana
6.2/10
A doctor (Tom Neal) answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

The War Against Mrs. Hadley
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/1942
  • Character: Millie
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.

Little Miss Big

Little Miss Big
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1946
  • Character: Kathy Bryan
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters

Main Street After Dark

Main Street After Dark
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1945
  • Character: Rosalie Dibson (as Dorothy Ruth Morris)
A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.

Her First Beau

Her First Beau
5.7/10
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

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