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Dorothy Christy

Acting Born May 26, 1906 Reading, Pennsylvania, USA 24 credits

Biography

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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.

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Known for

Film

Laura

as Woman (uncredited)

Full filmography

  • Miracle on 34th Street (1947) as Secretary (uncredited)
  • Laura (1944) as Woman (uncredited)
  • The Fountainhead (1949) as Society Woman (uncredited)
  • Silver River (1948) as Woman (uncredited)
  • Undercurrent (1946) as Gossip in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
  • The Unfaithful (1947) as Mrs. Freedley
  • Caught (1949) as Wealthy Shopper (uncredited)
  • Topper (1937)
  • Marie Antoinette (1938) as Lady in Waiting to Madame Du Barry (uncredited)
  • Sons of the Desert (1933) as Mrs. Betty Laurel
  • They Shall Have Music (1939) as Woman Angry at Husband Being Late (uncredited)
  • So Big (1953) as Widow Paarlenberg
  • Sierra Sue (1941) as Verebel Featherstone
  • Slave Ship (1937) as Blonde
  • Bright Eyes (1934) as Anita Smythe
  • Cowboy and the Senorita (1944) as Lulubelle
  • Union Depot (1932) as Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
  • Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) as Mother Bronson
  • Big Money (1930) as Leila
  • The Fabulous Joe (1947) as Grace
  • Radio Ranch (1940) as Queen Tika
  • Rough Riders' Round-up (1939) as Rusty's Dancing Partner
  • Grief Street (1931) as Ethel Wynn Merle
  • Devil and the Deep (1932) as Mrs. Crimp