A pretty brunette ingénue from Philadelphia, Dorothy Short came to Hollywood in 1934 with an MGM contract. That studio, however, wasted her in minor assignments and she was soon a regular in Poverty Row Westerns, of which she did 11, ranging from Tom Tyler's Brothers of the West (1937) to the William Elliott-Tex Ritter vehicle Bullets for Bandits (1942). But Short is perhaps best remembered for playing the hard-luck heroine in the cult phenomenon Reefer Madness (1938), one of 19 films, including short subjects and the serial Captain Midnight (1942), she would do with her husband -- action and comedy star Dave O'Brien -- beginning in 1936. Their 1953 divorce created a flurry of highly imaginative headlines, after which the actress disappeared from show business.
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Bullets for Bandits
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1942 | |||
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Aloma of the South Seas
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1941 | |||
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Spooks Run Wild
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Frontier Crusader
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1940 | |||
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Pony Post
Actor |
1940 | |||
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Camp Double Feature
Actor |
1939 | |||
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Code of the Cactus
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1939 | |||
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Daughter of the Tong
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1939 | |||
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Phantom Rancher
Actor |
1939 | |||
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The Singing Cowgirl
Actor |
1939 | |||
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Wild Horse Canyon
Actor |
1939 | |||
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Heart of Arizona
Actor |
1938 | |||
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Actor |
1938 | |||
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Brothers of the West
Actor |
1937 | |||
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Heart of the West
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1937 | |||
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More Than a Secretary
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Reefer Madness
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Assassin of Youth
Actor |
1935 | |||
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She Married Her Boss
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Student Tour
Actor |
1934 | |||
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Savage Fury
Actor |
1933 |