Dorothy Appleby
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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
Credits
Stagecoach (1939)
as Girl in Saloon (uncredited)
High Sierra (1941)
as Margie (uncredited)
The Women (1939)
as Treatment Girl (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
as Nardi
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
as Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
Pitchin' in the Kitchen (1943)
as Dagmar Spiggott, the wife
Live, Love and Learn (1937)
as Lou - Bob's Model (uncredited)
Convicted Woman (1940)
as Daisy
In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
as Tiska Jones
The Flying Irishman (1939)
as Maybelle
The Three Stooges Follies (1974)
as Mrs. Plunkett (archive footage)
Let 'em Have It (1935)
as Lola McArdle
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
as Waitress (uncredited)
From Nurse to Worse (1940)
as Dr. Lerious' Receptionist (uncredited)
So Long Mr. Chumps (1941)
as Pomeroy's Girlfriend (uncredited)
The Devil's Pipeline (1940)
as Stewardess
Cookoo Cavaliers (1940)
as Rosita (uncredited)
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934)
as Mitzie LaVerne
The Taming of the Snood (1940)
as Miss Wilson
Manpower (1941)
as Wilma
School for Girls (1934)
as Florence Burns
Paradise Express (1937)
as Kay Carson
Pardon My Berth Marks (1940)
as Mary Crissman
Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940)
as Tessie
As the Earth Turns (1934)
as Doris
His Ex Marks the Spot (1940)
as His wife
Jail Birds of Paradise (1934)
as Miss Deering, Prison Warder
What's the Matador? (1942)
as O'Brien's Secretary
What Makes Lizzy Dizzy? (1942)
as Aggie
Riffraff (1936)
as Gertie
Under Eighteen (1932)
as Elsie
Square Crooks (1928)
as Kay Ellison
Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
as Mrs. Plunkett
I Give My Love (1934)
as Alice Henley
Make a Wish (1937)
as Telephone Girl
Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)
as Twitchell's Girl
Black Eyes and Blues (1941)
as Helen Potts Harmon
King of the Wild Horses (1933)
as Napeeta
Fate's Fathead (1934)
as Dorothy Chase
You Said a Hatful! (1934)
as Dorothy
The Spook Speaks (1940)
as Newlywed wife
Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
as Hatcheck Girl (Uncredited)
North of Nome (1936)
as Ruby
Small Town Boy (1937)
as Sandra French
General Nuisance (1941)
as Dorothy - Army nurse
Making the Headlines (1938)
as Claire Sandford
Trick for Trick (1933)
as Maisie Henry