Dorothy Christy
Born: 1906-05-26 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1977-05-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1992
- Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys as (archive footage)
1953
- So Big as Widow Paarlenberg
1949
- Caught as Wealthy Shopper (uncredited)
- The Fountainhead as Society Woman (uncredited)
1948
- Fighting Back as Martha Higby
- Silver River as Woman (uncredited)
1947
- Miracle on 34th Street as Secretary (uncredited)
- The Unfaithful as Mrs. Freedley
- The Pilgrim Lady as Nell Brown
- Scared to Death as Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
- The Fabulous Joe as Grace
1946
- Undercurrent as Gossip in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
- Little Giant as Jim's wife (uncredited)
- The Magnificent Rogue as Clerk
1945
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Mother Bronson
- Fashion Model as Mme. Celeste
- Junior Miss as Mrs. Cummings
- Black Market Babies as Mrs. Becker (uncredited)
1944
- Laura as Woman (uncredited)
- Cowboy and the Senorita as Lulubelle
1943
- Double Up as Leon's Wife
- Cutie on Duty as Mrs Errol
- Radio Runaround as Mrs. Arlene Errol
- Gem-Jams as Mrs. Arlene Errol
1942
- Dear! Deer! as Mrs. Taylor
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Mrs. Updyke
- Sunset on the Desert as Committee Woman
- Get Hep to Love as 3rd Woman
1941
- Sierra Sue as Verebel Featherstone
- Sailors on Leave as Blonde Woman (uncredited)
1940
- Radio Ranch as Queen Tika
- City of Chance as Woman on Phone
1939
- East Side of Heaven as Mrs. Henry Smith (uncredited)
- They Shall Have Music as Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
- Rough Riders' Round-up as Rusty's Dancing Partner
1938
- Marie Antoinette as Lady in Waiting to Madame Du Barry (uncredited)
- Submarine Patrol as McPeek's Girl
- Woman Against Woman as Mrs. Morton
1937
- Topper
- You Can't Have Everything as Blonde
- Slave Ship as Blonde
- Love Is News as Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
1936
- Early to Bed as Nurse (uncredited)
1935
- The Phantom Empire as Queen Tika
- The Daring Young Man as Helen Kay
- I've Been Around as Girl
1934
- Love Birds as Kitten
- 6 Day Bike Rider as Mrs. Mabel St. Clair
- Bright Eyes as Anita Smythe
- Million Dollar Ransom as Gwen (Uncredited)
- Servants' Entrance as Mrs. Knut Johnson
- One Exciting Adventure as Woman with Earrings
1933
- Sons of the Desert as Mrs. Betty Laurel
- Second Hand Wife as Rose Bray (Uncredited)
- Only Yesterday as Rena (Uncredited)
- The Big Squeal as Natalie
1932
- The Unexpected Father as Evelyn Smythe
- Lawyer Man as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- Union Depot as Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
- Devil and the Deep as Mrs. Crimp
- The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood as Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick
- The Hollywood Handicap
- Slightly Married as Marjorie Reynolds
- The Arm of the Law as Mrs. Myrtle Welling
1931
- King of the Wild as Mrs. LaSalle
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as Angelica Embrey
- Big Business Girl as Mrs. Emery
- No, No, Lady as Adelle Martin
- Grief Street as Ethel Wynn Merle
- Night Life in Reno as Gwen Maynard
- The Devil Plays as Dolores Quincy
- Caught Cheating as Tessie
- Convicted as Constance Forbes
- Gold Dust Gertie as Mabel Guthrie
1930
- Big Money as Leila
- So This Is London as Lady Amy Ducksworth
- Playboy of Paris as Mlle. Berengere
- She Got What She Wanted
- Extravagance as Esther Hamilton
- She Who Gets Slapped as Wife
1929
- That's My Wife as Undetermined Role (uncredited)