Dorothy Appleby

Dorothy Appleby

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Appleby (January 6, 1906 – August 9, 1990) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 50 films between 1931 and 1943. Appleby gained early acting experience as an understudy and a chorus member in plays in New York City. A newspaper article reported that Appleby "came to New York fresh from winning a Maine beauty contest." Appleby was seen in many supporting roles, almost always in short subjects or low-budget feature films. She never progressed to leading roles in important pictures because of her height, which made her difficult to cast The trim brunette stood just over five feet tall, and her early leading men (like comedian Charley Chase) towered over her. She soon found steady if not prestigious work in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies. She appeared frequently with The Three Stooges, who were only a few inches taller than she was, and in 1940 she became Buster Keaton's leading lady, for the same reason: her height complemented his. She worked with Columbia comics Andy Clyde, El Brendel, and Hugh Herbert, and she had an uncredited part in John Ford's Stagecoach. Some of her Stooge comedies were Loco Boy Makes Good, So Long Mr. Chumps, and In the Sweet Pie and Pie. One memorable appearance was as Mexican brunette Rosita in 1940's Cookoo Cavaliers. In the film, Appleby gets clobbered by the Stooges when a facial "mud pack" made of cement dries on her face. Her petite figure belied her age, and she continued to play "younger" roles into the 1940s. One of her last screen roles was a one-line bit (playing a college co-ed at age 35) in the 1941 Jane Withers feature Small Town Deb.

Known For: Acting

Born: Portland, Maine, USA, 1906-01-06

Died: 1990-08-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	Under Eighteen	Elsie	66
2	1933	Trick for Trick	Maisie Henry	0
3	1933	King of the Wild Horses	Napeeta	0
4	1934	As the Earth Turns	Doris	53
5	1934	Jail Birds of Paradise	Miss Deering, Prison Warder	0
6	1934	School for Girls	Florence Burns	60
7	1934	I Give My Love	Alice Henley	60
8	1934	Two Heads on a Pillow	Mitzie LaVerne	0
9	1934	You Said a Hatful!	Dorothy	0
10	1934	Fate's Fathead	Dorothy Chase	0
11	1935	Charlie Chan in Paris	Nardi	65
12	1935	Let 'em Have It	Lola McArdle	70
13	1936	Riffraff	Gertie	50
14	1936	North of Nome	Ruby	60
15	1937	Paradise Express	Kay Carson	50
16	1937	Make a Wish	Telephone Girl	55
17	1937	Small Town Boy	Sandra French	0
18	1937	Live, Love and Learn	Lou - Bob's Model (uncredited)	58
19	1938	Making the Headlines	Claire Sandford	0
20	1939	Stagecoach	Girl in Saloon (uncredited)	76
21	1939	The Flying Irishman	Maybelle	46
22	1939	The Women	Treatment Girl (uncredited)	71
23	1940	Nothing But Pleasure	Mrs. Plunkett	58
24	1940	Convicted Woman	Daisy	37
25	1940	Rockin' Thru the Rockies	Tessie	61
26	1940	Pardon My Berth Marks	Mary Crissman	65
27	1940	The Doctor Takes a Wife	Woman in Book Store (uncredited)	64
28	1940	The Taming of the Snood	Miss Wilson	55
29	1940	Gold Rush Maisie	Hatcheck Girl (Uncredited)	65
30	1940	From Nurse to Worse	Dr. Lerious' Receptionist (uncredited)	54
31	1940	The Spook Speaks	Newlywed wife	50
32	1940	The Devil's Pipeline	Stewardess	60
33	1940	Cookoo Cavaliers	Rosita (uncredited)	62
34	1940	His Ex Marks the Spot	His wife	46
35	1941	High Sierra	Margie (uncredited)	71
36	1941	So Long Mr. Chumps	Pomeroy's Girlfriend (uncredited)	62
37	1941	Black Eyes and Blues	Helen Potts Harmon	0
38	1941	Manpower	Wilma	67
39	1941	General Nuisance	Dorothy - Army nurse	63
40	1941	In the Sweet Pie and Pie	Tiska Jones	69
41	1942	Loco Boy Makes Good	Twitchell's Girl	57
42	1942	What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?	Aggie	0
43	1942	What's the Matador?	O'Brien's Secretary	59
44	1943	Pitchin' in the Kitchen	Dagmar Spiggott, the wife	0
45	1974	The Three Stooges Follies	Mrs. Plunkett (archive footage)	0

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1932