Dorothy Appleby
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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.
Known for
Credits
Stagecoach (1939)
as Girl in Saloon (uncredited)
The Women (1939)
as Treatment Girl (uncredited)
High Sierra (1941)
as Margie (uncredited)
Manpower (1941)
as Wilma
Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940)
as Tessie
School for Girls (1934)
as Florence Burns
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
as Waitress (uncredited)
So Long Mr. Chumps (1941)
as Pomeroy's Girlfriend (uncredited)
What's the Matador? (1942)
as O'Brien's Secretary
Under Eighteen (1932)
as Elsie
In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
as Tiska Jones
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
as Nardi
Cookoo Cavaliers (1940)
as Rosita (uncredited)
Riffraff (1936)
as Gertie
Live, Love and Learn (1937)
as Lou - Bob's Model (uncredited)
From Nurse to Worse (1940)
as Dr. Lerious' Receptionist (uncredited)
The Flying Irishman (1939)
as Maybelle
Make a Wish (1937)
as Telephone Girl
Let 'em Have It (1935)
as Lola McArdle
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
as Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
Paradise Express (1937)
as Kay Carson
Square Crooks (1928)
as Kay Ellison
The Devil's Pipeline (1940)
as Stewardess
Convicted Woman (1940)
as Daisy
North of Nome (1936)
as Ruby
I Give My Love (1934)
as Alice Henley
Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
as Hatcheck Girl (Uncredited)
Pardon My Berth Marks (1940)
as Mary Crissman
As the Earth Turns (1934)
as Doris
King of the Wild Horses (1933)
as Napeeta
Jail Birds of Paradise (1934)
as Miss Deering, Prison Warder
General Nuisance (1941)
as Dorothy - Army nurse
Small Town Boy (1937)
as Sandra French
What Makes Lizzy Dizzy? (1942)
as Aggie
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
as Mitzie LaVerne
Making the Headlines (1938)
as Claire Sandford
The Taming of the Snood (1940)
as Miss Wilson
Trick for Trick (1933)
as Maisie Henry
Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)
as Twitchell's Girl
Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
as Mrs. Plunkett
Black Eyes and Blues (1941)
as Helen Potts Harmon
The Spook Speaks (1940)
as Newlywed wife
Fate's Fathead (1934)
as Dorothy Chase
Pitchin' in the Kitchen (1943)
as Dagmar Spiggott, the wife
The Three Stooges Follies (1974)
as Mrs. Plunkett (archive footage)
You Said a Hatful! (1934)
as Dorothy
His Ex Marks the Spot (1940)
as His wife