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