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
- Fighting Back as Martha Higby
- Silver River as Woman (uncredited)
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
- Black Market Babies as Mrs. Becker (uncredited)
- Junior Miss as Mrs. Cummings
- Fashion Model as Mme. Celeste
1944
- Laura as Woman (uncredited)
- Cowboy and the Senorita as Lulubelle
1943
- Double Up as Leon's Wife
- Radio Runaround as Mrs. Arlene Errol
- Cutie on Duty as Mrs Errol
- Gem-Jams as Mrs. Arlene Errol
1942
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Mrs. Updyke
- Get Hep to Love as 3rd Woman
- Sunset on the Desert as Committee Woman
- Dear! Deer! as Mrs. Taylor
1941
- Sailors on Leave as Blonde Woman (uncredited)
- Sierra Sue as Verebel Featherstone
1940
- Radio Ranch as Queen Tika
- City of Chance as Woman on Phone
1939
- Rough Riders' Round-up as Rusty's Dancing Partner
- They Shall Have Music as Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven as Mrs. Henry Smith (uncredited)
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
- Love Is News as Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
- You Can't Have Everything as Blonde
- Slave Ship as Blonde
1936
- Early to Bed as Nurse (uncredited)
1935
- The Daring Young Man as Helen Kay
- I've Been Around as Girl
- The Phantom Empire as Queen Tika
1934
- Love Birds as Kitten
- Bright Eyes as Anita Smythe
- 6 Day Bike Rider as Mrs. Mabel St. Clair
- Million Dollar Ransom as Gwen (Uncredited)
- One Exciting Adventure as Woman with Earrings
- Servants' Entrance as Mrs. Knut Johnson
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
- Devil and the Deep as Mrs. Crimp
- The Arm of the Law as Mrs. Myrtle Welling
- Lawyer Man as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood as Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick
- Union Depot as Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
- The Hollywood Handicap
- The Unexpected Father as Evelyn Smythe
- Slightly Married as Marjorie Reynolds
1931
- King of the Wild as Mrs. LaSalle
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as Angelica Embrey
- Big Business Girl as Mrs. Emery
- Night Life in Reno as Gwen Maynard
- Grief Street as Ethel Wynn Merle
- Gold Dust Gertie as Mabel Guthrie
- No, No, Lady as Adelle Martin
- The Devil Plays as Dolores Quincy
- Caught Cheating as Tessie
- Convicted as Constance Forbes
1930
- So This Is London as Lady Amy Ducksworth
- Big Money as Leila
- She Got What She Wanted
- She Who Gets Slapped as Wife
- Playboy of Paris as Mlle. Berengere
- Extravagance as Esther Hamilton
1929
- That's My Wife as Undetermined Role (uncredited)