Dorothy Christy
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.
Born: May 26, 1906
Place of Birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
She Who Gets Slapped
A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
Junior Miss
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
Laura
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Miracle on 34th Street
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
East Side of Heaven
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Sons of the Desert
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Early to Bed
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
So This Is London
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
The Fountainhead
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Widow Paarlenberg
as Society Woman (uncredited)
as Wealthy Shopper (uncredited)
as Martha Higby
as Woman (uncredited)
as Grace
as Mrs. Freedley
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
as Nell Brown
as Gossip in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
as Clerk
as Jim's wife (uncredited)
as Mrs. Becker (uncredited)
as Mrs. Cummings
as Mother Bronson
as Mme. Celeste
as Woman (uncredited)
as Lulubelle
as Leon's Wife
as Mrs Errol
as Mrs. Arlene Errol
as Mrs. Arlene Errol
as 3rd Woman
as Committee Woman
as Mrs. Updyke
as Verebel Featherstone
as Blonde Woman (uncredited)
as Queen Tika
as Woman on Phone
as Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
as Mrs. Henry Smith (uncredited)
as Rusty's Dancing Partner
as McPeek's Girl
as Lady in Waiting to Madame Du Barry (uncredited)
as Mrs. Morton
as Blonde
as Blonde
as Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Helen Kay
as Girl
as Queen Tika
as Anita Smythe
as Mrs. Mabel St. Clair
as Mrs. Knut Johnson
as Gwen (Uncredited)
as Woman with Earrings
as Kitten
as Mrs. Betty Laurel
as Rena (Uncredited)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
as Marjorie Reynolds
as Mrs. Crimp
as Mrs. Myrtle Welling
as Mrs. Chauncey Chadwick
as Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
as Evelyn Smythe
as Dolores Quincy
as Constance Forbes
as Gwen Maynard
as Ethel Wynn Merle
as Mabel Guthrie
as Mrs. Emery
as Mrs. LaSalle
as Angelica Embrey
as Tessie
as Leila
as Mlle. Berengere
as Esther Hamilton
as Lady Amy Ducksworth
as Wife
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)