1906-01-06 ( 119 years old ) in Portland, Maine, USA
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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.
Movies
The Three Stooges Follies
1974-11-01
Pitchin' in the Kitchen
1943-09-10
What's the Matador?
1942-04-23
What Makes Lizzy Dizzy?
1942-03-26
Loco Boy Makes Good
1942-01-08
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
1941-10-16
General Nuisance
1941-09-18
Manpower
1941-08-09
Black Eyes and Blues
1941-04-18
So Long Mr. Chumps
1941-02-07
High Sierra
1941-01-23
His Ex Marks the Spot
1940-12-13
Cookoo Cavaliers
1940-11-15
The Devil's Pipeline
1940-10-31
The Spook Speaks
1940-09-20
From Nurse to Worse
1940-08-23
Gold Rush Maisie
1940-07-26
The Taming of the Snood
1940-06-28
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940-04-25
Pardon My Berth Marks
1940-03-22
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
1940-03-08
Convicted Woman
1940-01-31
Nothing But Pleasure
1940-01-19
The Women
1939-09-01
The Flying Irishman
1939-04-07
Stagecoach
1939-03-02
Making the Headlines
1938-03-31
Live, Love and Learn
1937-10-29
Small Town Boy
1937-09-24
Make a Wish
1937-09-01
Paradise Express
1937-02-24
North of Nome
1936-11-14
Riffraff
1936-01-03
Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935-01-21
Fate's Fathead
1934-11-17
You Said a Hatful!
1934-10-13
Two Heads on a Pillow
1934-10-02
I Give My Love
1934-07-17
School for Girls
1934-03-22
Jail Birds of Paradise
1934-03-10
As the Earth Turns
1934-02-14
King of the Wild Horses
1933-11-10
Trick for Trick
1933-04-20
Under Eighteen
1932-01-02
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