Dorothy Short Trailers
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Dorothy Short (1915 - 1963) was an American film actress mainly in low-budget westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie Reefer Madness, which in modern times has become a well-known cult film. She also appeared in another anti-marijuana film Assassin of Youth in 1937.
She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the Pete Smith series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions during the 1940s. After their divorce in 1954, Short retired from film acting, and died nine years later at age 47.
Most Popular Dorothy Short Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
01 December 1940
Atkins is the boss of one of the Pony Express relay stations. He has been causing trouble and is replaced with Cal Sheridan.
31 March 1940
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
03 March 1938
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
14 June 1940
A marshal is sent to clean up a mining town being terrorized by an organized gang that is killing miners and stealing their claims.
04 July 1951
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.
04 January 1941
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.
07 December 1946
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
14 April 1935
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
15 February 1942
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America.
12 October 1938
Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men.
07 February 1948
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-law.
05 May 1941
Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade.
29 June 1937
Tyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president.
23 February 1938
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin.
05 December 1953
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.
01 September 1950
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
12 February 1942
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.
10 December 1936
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.
02 June 1938
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch.
17 December 1941
Opera star-cum-cowboy hero George Houston stars in PRC's The Lone Rider Fights Back. Appropriately enough, Houston disguises himself as a musician to get the goods on a gang of terrorists.
05 April 1947
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
15 June 1938
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house.
22 April 1938
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.
05 October 1934
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
01 January 1956
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
17 July 1948
An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance.
21 December 1938
Seeking his brother’s murderer, cowboy Jack Gray and his sidekick Lopez sign on for work at a horse ranch where the foreman is up to no good.
28 August 1939
A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
24 October 1941
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
25 February 1939
When Blackton outbids Bill Carson. Bill suspects he will have to rustle cattle to fulfill the contract.
