Dorothy Jordan

Acting

Dorothy Jordan

Born — Died

1906-08-09 — 1988-12-07

Place of birth

Clarksville, Tennessee, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 20 titles

The Wet Parade poster
6.2

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.

The Wet Parade

1932

The Cabin in the Cotton poster
6.3

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

The Cabin in the Cotton

1932

Bondage poster
7.0

Judy Peters is about to be sentenced after she has pled guilty to her third offense of prostitution, when Dr. Nelson interrupts and tells her story to the court. (Mubi.)

Bondage

1933

Hell Divers poster
6.7

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

Hell Divers

1932

The Roadhouse Murder poster
5.0

After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.

The Roadhouse Murder

1932

The Lost Squadron poster
6.5

When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.

The Lost Squadron

1932

That's My Boy poster
8.0

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.

That's My Boy

1932

A Tailor-Made Man poster
7.0

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.

A Tailor-Made Man

1931

Down To Earth poster
7.5

Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

Down To Earth

1932

Love in the Rough poster
5.7

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.

Love in the Rough

1930

Min and Bill poster
6.2

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Min and Bill

1930

Call of the Flesh poster
5.7

A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.

Call of the Flesh

1930

Strictly Personal poster
7.5

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.

Strictly Personal

1933

In Gay Madrid poster
5.7

Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.

In Gay Madrid

1930

One Man's Journey poster
6.7

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.

One Man's Journey

1933

No artwork available
NR

Announced by Bert Wheeler and featuring Marceline Day, Wesley Barry, Dorothy Jordan, Sally Starr, Marjorie Kane, Ken Maynard with Tarzan the Wonder Horse, and radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

The Voice of Hollywood No. 9

1930

The Beloved Bachelor poster
10.0

Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.

The Beloved Bachelor

1931

70,000 Witnesses poster
5.7

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.

70,000 Witnesses

1932

Shipmates poster
5.8

A sailor falls in love with the admiral's daughter but finds they can't marry because of his lowly rank.

Shipmates

1931

Young Sinners poster
9.0

The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.

Young Sinners

1931

1920s · 4 titles

Series credits