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