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
- The Fountainhead as Society Woman (uncredited)
- Caught as Wealthy Shopper (uncredited)
1948
- Silver River as Woman (uncredited)
- Fighting Back as Martha Higby
1947
- Miracle on 34th Street as Secretary (uncredited)
- The Unfaithful as Mrs. Freedley
- Scared to Death as Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
- The Pilgrim Lady as Nell Brown
- 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
- Junior Miss as Mrs. Cummings
- Fashion Model as Mme. Celeste
- 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
- Gem-Jams as Mrs. Arlene Errol
- Cutie on Duty as Mrs Errol
- Radio Runaround as Mrs. Arlene Errol
1942
- Sunset on the Desert as Committee Woman
- Get Hep to Love as 3rd Woman
- Dear! Deer! as Mrs. Taylor
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Mrs. Updyke
1941
- Sierra Sue as Verebel Featherstone
- Sailors on Leave as Blonde Woman (uncredited)
1940
- City of Chance as Woman on Phone
- Radio Ranch as Queen Tika
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)
- Woman Against Woman as Mrs. Morton
- Submarine Patrol as McPeek's Girl
1937
- Slave Ship as Blonde
- Topper
- You Can't Have Everything as Blonde
- Love Is News as Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
1936
- Early to Bed as Nurse (uncredited)
1935
- The Daring Young Man as Helen Kay
- The Phantom Empire as Queen Tika
- I've Been Around as Girl
1934
- Bright Eyes as Anita Smythe
- Million Dollar Ransom as Gwen (Uncredited)
- One Exciting Adventure as Woman with Earrings
- Servants' Entrance as Mrs. Knut Johnson
- Love Birds as Kitten
- 6 Day Bike Rider as Mrs. Mabel St. Clair
1933
- Sons of the Desert as Mrs. Betty Laurel
- Only Yesterday as Rena (Uncredited)
- The Big Squeal as Natalie
- Second Hand Wife as Rose Bray (Uncredited)
1932
- Lawyer Man as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- Union Depot as Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
- Devil and the Deep as Mrs. Crimp
- The Unexpected Father as Evelyn Smythe
- The Arm of the Law as Mrs. Myrtle Welling
- Slightly Married as Marjorie Reynolds
- The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood as Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick
- The Hollywood Handicap
1931
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as Angelica Embrey
- Grief Street as Ethel Wynn Merle
- King of the Wild as Mrs. LaSalle
- Gold Dust Gertie as Mabel Guthrie
- Night Life in Reno as Gwen Maynard
- Big Business Girl as Mrs. Emery
- The Devil Plays as Dolores Quincy
- Caught Cheating as Tessie
- Convicted as Constance Forbes
- No, No, Lady as Adelle Martin
1930
- So This Is London as Lady Amy Ducksworth
- Playboy of Paris as Mlle. Berengere
- She Got What She Wanted
- Big Money as Leila
- Extravagance as Esther Hamilton
- She Who Gets Slapped as Wife
1929
- That's My Wife as Undetermined Role (uncredited)