Dorothy Lee

Acting

Dorothy Lee

Born — Died

1911-05-23 — 1999-06-24

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 28 titles

Cracked Nuts poster
8.0

To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...

Cracked Nuts

1931

Peach-o-Reno poster
6.5

After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.

Peach-o-Reno

1931

The Rainmakers poster
7.0

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought

The Rainmakers

1935

The Old Homestead poster
10.0

A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.

The Old Homestead

1935

Cockeyed Cavaliers poster
5.8

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

Cockeyed Cavaliers

1934

Half Shot at Sunrise poster
6.0

Two soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.

Half Shot at Sunrise

1930

The Stolen Jools poster
5.6

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

The Stolen Jools

1931

Hook, Line and Sinker poster
5.6

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.

Hook, Line and Sinker

1930

Silly Billies poster
8.5

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.

Silly Billies

1936

S.O.S Tidal Wave poster
6.8

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.

S.O.S Tidal Wave

1939

The Cuckoos poster
8.0

Two phony fortune tellers get mixed up with gypsies.

The Cuckoos

1930

Twelve Crowded Hours poster
5.7

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Twelve Crowded Hours

1939

Caught Plastered poster
6.2

Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.

Caught Plastered

1931

Hips, Hips, Hooray! poster
7.0

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

1934

Too Many Cooks poster
4.3

A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Too Many Cooks

1931

School for Girls poster
7.5

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.

School for Girls

1934

Local Boy Makes Good poster
6.8

John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.

Local Boy Makes Good

1931

Dixiana poster
5.0

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.

Dixiana

1930

Without Children poster
NR

Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...

Without Children

1935

Laugh and Get Rich poster
6.0

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

Laugh and Get Rich

1931

Plane Crazy poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Plane Crazy

1933

Girl Crazy poster
4.3

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.

Girl Crazy

1932

The Curtain Falls poster
6.0

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.

The Curtain Falls

1934

No artwork available
5.5

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.

Take a Chance

1933

No artwork available
7.0

A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the workers, especially the office girl who starts a day nursery for their children. He's also a part owner in the business. His methods usually scare away the man hired as the plant manager, until a replacement (secretly one of the other owners) arrives.

Sweeping Against the Winds

1930

No artwork available
9.0

An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.

Signing 'em Up

1933

A Preferred List poster
7.7

A Preferred List is a 1933 American Pre-Code short comedy film produced by Lou Brock. At the 6th Academy Awards, held in 1933, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Comedy).

A Preferred List

1933

New Deal Rhythm poster
6.7

Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration.

New Deal Rhythm

1933

1920s · 4 titles