Dorothy Short
Birthday
1915/06/29
Day of death
1963/06/04 (47 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
Mrs. Dave O'Brien
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 v...Read more
Acting
(1941) Spooks Run Wild
as Linda Mason
(1938) Tell Your Children
as Mary
(1940) Phantom Rancher
as Ann Markham
(1941) Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
as Ruth Wade
(1937) Brothers of the West
as Annie Wade
(1939) Daughter of the Tong
as Marion Morgan
(1938) Where the Buffalo Roam
as Laddie Gray
(1938) The Singing Cowgirl
as Nora Pryde
(1940) Pony Post
as Alice Goodwin
(1936) More Than a Secretary
as Ann (uncredited)
(1939) Code of the Cactus
as Joan
(1942) Captain Midnight
as Joyce Edwards
(1938) Start Cheering
as Student
(1935) The Call of the Savage
as Mona Andrews
(1940) Frontier Crusader
as Jenny Mason
(1953) Things We Can Do Without
as Mrs. Thud (uncredited)
(1938) Heart of Arizona
as Jacqueline Starr
(1941) The Trail of the Silver Spurs
as Nancy Nordick
(1934) Student Tour
as Student
(1946) I Love My Husband, But!
as The Wife (uncredited)
(1942) Bullets for Bandits
as Dakota Brown
(1941) The Lone Rider Fights Back
as Jean Dennison
(1947) I Love My Wife BUT!
as The Wife (uncredited)
(1950) A Wife's Life
as Mrs. George T. Hardnose
(1948) I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
as The Wife (uncredited)
(1938) Assassin of Youth
as Marjorie 'Marge' Barry
(1948) Just Suppose
as Wife (uncredited)
(1951) Bargain Madness
as Dorothy (uncredited)
(1956) Savage Fury
as Mona Andrews