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Dorothy Appleby
Portland, Maine, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Appleby (January 6, 1906 – August 9, 1990) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 50 films between 1931 and 1943. Apple…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Appleby (January 6, 1906 – August 9, 1990) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 50 films between 1931 and 1943. Appleby gained early acting experience as an understudy and a chorus member in plays in New York City. A newspaper article reported that Appleby "came to New York fresh from winning a Maine beauty contest." Appleby was seen in many supporting roles, almost always in short subjects or low-budget feature films. She never progressed to leading roles in important pictures because of her height, which made her difficult to cast The trim brunette stood just over five feet tall, and her early leading men (like comedian Charley Chase) towered over her. She soon found steady if not prestigious work in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies. She appeared frequently with The Three Stooges, who were only a few inches taller than she was, and in 1940 she became Buster Keaton's leading lady, for the same reason: her height complemented his. She worked with Columbia comics Andy Clyde, El Brendel, and Hugh Herbert, and she had an uncredited part in John Ford's Stagecoach. Some of her Stooge comedies were Loco Boy Makes Good, So Long Mr. Chumps, and In the Sweet Pie and Pie. One memorable appearance was as Mexican brunette Rosita in 1940's Cookoo Cavaliers. In the film, Appleby gets clobbered by the Stooges when a facial "mud pack" made of cement dries on her face. Her petite figure belied her age, and she continued to play "younger" roles into the 1940s. One of her last screen roles was a one-line bit (playing a college co-ed at age 35) in the 1941 Jane Withers feature Small Town Deb.
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1974
The Three Stooges Follies
Movie Mrs. Plunkett (archive footage)
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1943
Pitchin' in the Kitchen
Movie Dagmar Spiggott, the wife
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1942
What's the Matador?
Movie O'Brien's Secretary
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1942
What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?
Movie Aggie
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1942
Loco Boy Makes Good
Movie Twitchell's Girl
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1941
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Movie Tiska Jones
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1941
General Nuisance
Movie Dorothy - Army nurse
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1941
Manpower
Movie Wilma
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1941
Black Eyes and Blues
Movie Helen Potts Harmon
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1941
So Long Mr. Chumps
Movie Pomeroy's Girlfriend (uncredited)
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1941
High Sierra
Movie Margie (uncredited)
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1940
His Ex Marks the Spot
Movie His wife
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1940
Cookoo Cavaliers
Movie Rosita (uncredited)
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1940
The Devil's Pipeline
Movie Stewardess
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1940
The Spook Speaks
Movie Newlywed wife
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1940
From Nurse to Worse
Movie Dr. Lerious' Receptionist (uncredited)
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1940
Gold Rush Maisie
Movie Hatcheck Girl (Uncredited)
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1940
The Taming of the Snood
Movie Miss Wilson
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1940
The Doctor Takes a Wife
Movie Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
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1940
Pardon My Berth Marks
Movie Mary Crissman
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1940
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Movie Tessie
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1940
Convicted Woman
Movie Daisy
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1940
Nothing But Pleasure
Movie Mrs. Plunkett
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1939
The Women
Movie Treatment Girl (uncredited)
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1939
When Tomorrow Comes
Movie Waitress (uncredited)
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1939
The Flying Irishman
Movie Maybelle
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1939
Stagecoach
Movie Girl in Saloon (uncredited)
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1938
Making the Headlines
Movie Claire Sandford
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1937
Live, Love and Learn
Movie Lou - Bob's Model (uncredited)
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1937
Small Town Boy
Movie Sandra French
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1937
Make a Wish
Movie Telephone Girl
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1937
Paradise Express
Movie Kay Carson
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1936
North of Nome
Movie Ruby
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1936
Riffraff
Movie Gertie
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1935
Let 'em Have It
Movie Lola McArdle
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1935
Charlie Chan in Paris
Movie Nardi
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1934
Fate's Fathead
Movie Dorothy Chase
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1934
You Said a Hatful!
Movie Dorothy
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1934
Two Heads on a Pillow
Movie Mitzie LaVerne
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1934
I Give My Love
Movie Alice Henley
