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 Pilgrim Lady as Nell Brown
- The Unfaithful as Mrs. Freedley
- The Fabulous Joe as Grace
- Scared to Death as Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
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
- Black Market Babies as Mrs. Becker (uncredited)
- Fashion Model as Mme. Celeste
1944
- Laura as Woman (uncredited)
- Cowboy and the Senorita as Lulubelle
1943
- Radio Runaround as Mrs. Arlene Errol
- Double Up as Leon's Wife
- Cutie on Duty as Mrs Errol
- Gem-Jams as Mrs. Arlene Errol
1942
- Get Hep to Love as 3rd Woman
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Mrs. Updyke
- Sunset on the Desert as Committee Woman
- Dear! Deer! as Mrs. Taylor
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
- They Shall Have Music as Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven as Mrs. Henry Smith (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
- Love Is News as Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
- Slave Ship as Blonde
- You Can't Have Everything as Blonde
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
- Bright Eyes as Anita Smythe
- Million Dollar Ransom as Gwen (Uncredited)
- Servants' Entrance as Mrs. Knut Johnson
- 6 Day Bike Rider as Mrs. Mabel St. Clair
- One Exciting Adventure as Woman with Earrings
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)
- Devil and the Deep as Mrs. Crimp
- Union Depot as Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
- The Unexpected Father as Evelyn Smythe
- Slightly Married as Marjorie Reynolds
- The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood as Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick
- The Hollywood Handicap
- The Arm of the Law as Mrs. Myrtle Welling
1931
- Big Business Girl as Mrs. Emery
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath as Angelica Embrey
- King of the Wild as Mrs. LaSalle
- The Devil Plays as Dolores Quincy
- Grief Street as Ethel Wynn Merle
- Gold Dust Gertie as Mabel Guthrie
- No, No, Lady as Adelle Martin
- Caught Cheating as Tessie
- Night Life in Reno as Gwen Maynard
- Convicted as Constance Forbes
1930
- Big Money as Leila
- So This Is London as Lady Amy Ducksworth
- Extravagance as Esther Hamilton
- Playboy of Paris as Mlle. Berengere
- She Got What She Wanted
- She Who Gets Slapped as Wife
1929
- That's My Wife as Undetermined Role (uncredited)