Dorothy Christy

Born: 1906-05-26

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Christy (born Dorothea J. Seltzer, May 26, 1906 – died May 21, 1977) was an American actress. Christy acted with Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers, and with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the film Sons of the Desert (1933), in the role of Mrs. Laurel. She was Queen Tika of Murania in The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry’s 1935 cliffhanger serial. She concluded her cinema career in 1953. Dorothy Christy died of natural causes five days shy of her seventy-first birthday.


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Miracle on 34th Street

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1947-06-04

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow...

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Laura

as Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1944-10-11

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

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The Fountainhead

as Society Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1949-06-25

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism...

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Sons of the Desert

as Mrs. Betty Laurel
Released: 1933-12-29

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise...

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Undercurrent

as Gossip in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Released: 1946-11-11

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of...

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Topper

as uncredited
Released: 1937-07-16

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as...

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Caught

as Wealthy Shopper (uncredited)
Released: 1949-02-17

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is...

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Marie Antoinette

as Lady in Waiting to Madame Du Barry (uncredited)
Released: 1938-08-26

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...

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Scared to Death

as Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
Released: 1947-02-01

A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is...

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Black Market Babies

as Mrs. Becker (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-15

Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative...

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So Big

as Widow Paarlenberg
Released: 1953-10-31

A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there...

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The Unfaithful

as Mrs. Freedley
Released: 1947-07-01

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of...

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Cowboy and the Senorita

as Lulubelle
Released: 1944-05-13

Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to...

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Little Giant

as Jim's wife (uncredited)
Released: 1946-02-22

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the...

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You Can't Have Everything

as Blonde
Released: 1937-08-02

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate...

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Bright Eyes

as Anita Smythe
Released: 1934-12-28

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety...

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Union Depot

as Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-14

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a...

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They Shall Have Music

as Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
Released: 1939-08-18

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his...

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Rough Riders' Round-up

as Rusty's Dancing Partner
Released: 1939-03-13

Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a...

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Slave Ship

as Blonde
Released: 1937-06-16

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced...

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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

as Angelica Embrey
Released: 1931-02-28

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her...

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Men with Steel Faces

as Queen Tika
Released: 1940-05-02

Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a...

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Flame of Barbary Coast

as Mother Bronson
Released: 1945-05-28

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San...

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That's My Wife

as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: 1929-03-23

Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he...

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East Side of Heaven

as Mrs. Henry Smith (uncredited)
Released: 1939-04-07

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the...

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One Exciting Adventure

as Woman with Earrings
Released: 1934-09-01

One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake...

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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys

as (archive footage)
Released: 1992-04-05

Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of...

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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

as Mrs. Updyke
Released: 1942-03-27

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to...

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Million Dollar Ransom

as Gwen (Uncredited)
Released: 1934-09-01

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in...

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Only Yesterday

as Rena (Uncredited)
Released: 1933-11-01

On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....

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The Arm of the Law

as Mrs. Myrtle Welling
Released: 1932-04-19

A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been...

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The Phantom Empire

as Queen Tika
Released: 1935-02-22

When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in...

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The Magnificent Rogue

as Clerk
Released: 1946-11-07

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own...

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Servants' Entrance

as Mrs. Knut Johnson
Released: 1934-09-25

Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a...

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Cutie on Duty

as Mrs Errol
Released: 1943-10-29

Leon Errol buys his wife a gift.

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Woman Against Woman

as Mrs. Morton
Released: 1938-06-24

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling...

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Sierra Sue

as Verebel Featherstone
Released: 1941-11-12

To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and...

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Devil and the Deep

as Mrs. Crimp
Released: 1932-08-12

Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane...

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Sunset on the Desert

as Committee Woman
Released: 1942-04-01

Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of...

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City of Chance

as Woman on Phone
Released: 1940-01-13

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler...

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I've Been Around

as Girl
Released: 1935-03-05

Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.

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Sailors on Leave

as Blonde Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1941-09-30

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.

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Slightly Married

as Marjorie Reynolds
Released: 1932-10-15

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for...

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The Devil Plays

as Dolores Quincy
Released: 1931-12-15

A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder...

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Fashion Model

as Mme. Celeste
Released: 1945-03-02

When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a...

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Love Birds

as Kitten
Released: 1934-05-04

ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the...

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King of the Wild

as Mrs. LaSalle
Released: 1931-03-01

Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to...

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She Who Gets Slapped

as Wife
Released: 1930-05-15

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

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The Unexpected Father

as Evelyn Smythe
Released: 1932-01-03

A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly...

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Big Money

as Leila
Released: 1930-10-28

A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.

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Gold Dust Gertie

as Mabel Guthrie
Released: 1931-06-27

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.

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Playboy of Paris

as Mlle. Berengere
Released: 1930-10-18

Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a...

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Love Is News

as Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
Released: 1937-02-26

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...

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So This Is London

as Lady Amy Ducksworth
Released: 1930-05-23

Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British....

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Grief Street

as Ethel Wynn Merle
Released: 1931-10-01

A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who...

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Junior Miss

as Mrs. Cummings
Released: 1945-06-16

A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly...

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Get Hep to Love

as 3rd Woman
Released: 1942-10-02

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting...

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Night Life in Reno

as Gwen Maynard
Released: 1931-11-01

A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An...

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Submarine Patrol

as McPeek's Girl
Released: 1938-11-25

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with...

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The Fabulous Joe

as Grace
Released: 1947-08-28

Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a...

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Big Business Girl

as Mrs. Emery
Released: 1931-06-12

A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her...

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6 Day Bike Rider

as Mrs. Mabel St. Clair
Released: 1934-10-20

To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six...

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Extravagance

as Esther Hamilton
Released: 1930-10-09

Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although...

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Fighting Back

as Martha Higby
Released: 1948-07-30

An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet...

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Early to Bed

as Nurse
Released: 1936-06-05

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years...

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The Daring Young Man

as Helen Kay
Released: 1935-07-17

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...

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Convicted

as Constance Forbes
Released: 1931-11-01

A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.

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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

as Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick
Released: 1932-03-27

The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio.

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Double Up

as Leon's Wife
Released: 1943-12-29

Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.

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Caught Cheating

as Tessie
Released: 1931-01-21

Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.

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Radio Runaround

as Mrs. Arlene Errol
Released: 1943-05-07

As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon...

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The Pilgrim Lady

as Nell Brown
Released: 1947-01-22

Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved...

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