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Dorothy Christy

Dorothy Christy

Birthday: 1906-05-26 | Place of Birth: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Christy (born Dorothea J. Seltzer, May 26, 1906 – died May 21, 1977) was an American actress. Christy acted with Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers, and with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the film Sons of the Desert (1933), in the role of Mrs. Laurel. She was Queen Tika of Murania in The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry’s 1935 cliffhanger serial. She concluded her cinema career in 1953. Dorothy Christy died of natural causes five days shy of her seventy-first birthday.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1948
Fighting Back

as    Martha Higby

1945
Fashion Model

as    Mme. Celeste

1945
Junior Miss

as    Mrs. Cummings

1944
Cowboy and the Senorita

as    Lulubelle

1941
Sierra Sue

as    Verebel Featherstone

1940
Men with Steel Faces

as    Queen Tika

1935
The Phantom Empire

as    Queen Tika

1934
Bright Eyes

as    Anita Smythe

1933
Sons of the Desert

as    Mrs. Betty Laurel

1932
The Arm of the Law

as    Mrs. Myrtle Welling

1931
Grief Street

as    Ethel Wynn Merle

1931
Night Life in Reno

as    Gwen Maynard

1931
King of the Wild

as    Mrs. LaSalle

1930
Playboy of Paris

as    Mlle. Berengere