DOROTHY SHORT
ACTING
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Dorothy Short (1915 - 1963) was an American film actress mainly in low-budget westerns and serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
A native of Philadelphia, she married actor Dave O'Brien in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie Reefer Madness, which in modern times has become a well-known cult film.
She also appeared in another anti-marijuana film Assassin of Youth in 1937.
She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the Pete Smith series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions during the 1940s.
- Spooks Run Wild 1941
- Tell Your Children 1938
- Phantom Rancher 1940
- Brothers of the West 1937
- Where the Buffalo Roam 1938
- The Singing Cowgirl 1938
- Pony Post 1940
- More Than a Secretary 1936
- Code of the Cactus 1939
- Start Cheering 1938
- The Call of the Savage 1935
- Frontier Crusader 1940
- Heart of Arizona 1938
- The Trail of the Silver Spurs 1941
- Student Tour 1934
- Bullets for Bandits 1942
- The Lone Rider Fights Back 1941
- Assassin of Youth 1938
- Savage Fury 1956