Acting

Dorothy Dearing

Acting credits

The Blue Bird poster
5.8

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.

The Blue Bird

1940

I Wake Up Screaming poster
6.9

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

I Wake Up Screaming

1941

Hollywood Cavalcade poster
6.2

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Hollywood Cavalcade

1939

Swanee River poster
7.0

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.

Swanee River

1939

Hotel for Women poster
7.5

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Hotel for Women

1939

Tail Spin poster
6.3

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

Tail Spin

1939

Wife, Husband and Friend poster
6.5

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Wife, Husband and Friend

1939

Murder Over New York poster
6.2

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Murder Over New York

1940

The Great Profile poster
6.8

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

The Great Profile

1940

City of Chance poster
5.6

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

City of Chance

1940

Little Old New York poster
5.3

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Little Old New York

1940

Girl in 313 poster
5.6

A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

Girl in 313

1940

Hudson's Bay poster
6.1

Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest.

Hudson's Bay

1940

Free, Blonde and 21 poster
7.3

Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

Free, Blonde and 21

1940