The best Dorothy Short’s movies

Dorothy Short

Dorothy Short

29/06/1915- 04/06/1963
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Dorothy Short’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Dorothy Short.
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Start Cheering

Start Cheering
6/10
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Tell Your Children

Tell Your Children
3.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/06/1938
  • Character: Mary
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary and Jimmy Lane and Mary's boyfriend, Bill, into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.

Student Tour

Student Tour
5.1/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 05/10/1934
  • Character: Student
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.

Spooks Run Wild

Spooks Run Wild
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 24/10/1941
  • Character: Linda Mason
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

The Call of the Savage

The Call of the Savage
5.4/10
  • Release: 14/04/1935
  • Character: Mona Andrews
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

Code of the Cactus

Code of the Cactus
6.2/10
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.

Phantom Rancher

Phantom Rancher
5.1/10
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.

The Trail of the Silver Spurs

The Trail of the Silver Spurs
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 04/01/1941
  • Character: Nancy Nordick
The 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.

Savage Fury

Savage Fury
5.7/10
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.

Heart of Arizona

Heart of Arizona
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 22/04/1938
  • Character: Jacqueline Starr
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang.

Bullets for Bandits

Bullets for Bandits
6.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 12/02/1942
  • Character: Dakota Brown
In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.

Brothers of the West

Brothers of the West
5.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/06/1937
  • Character: Annie Wade, Ed's Wife
Tyler 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.

Assassin of Youth

Assassin of Youth
4.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/02/1938
  • Character: Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
A 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.

More Than a Secretary

More Than a Secretary
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/12/1936
  • Character: Ann (uncredited)
When 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.

Things We Can Do Without

Things We Can Do Without
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/12/1953
  • Character: Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
A 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.

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