Dorothy Lee(1911-1999)

Actress
Soundtrack

After finishing high school, Dorothy Lee went to vaudeville, sang with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvaninans and made her film debut in Syncopation (1929). In Rio Rita (1929) she was teamed with Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey and appeared in almost all of their movies, like Margaret Dumont in The Marx Brothers' films. She had a short marriage to Hollywood gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler in 1931. After the Wheeler and Woolsey team split up, her career drifted away and she left the film business in 1939. She returned for a few more films in the early '40s, but then permanently retired after that.

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Half Shot at Sunrise

6.0

Annette Marshall

1930

Twelve Crowded Hours

5.5

Thelma

1939

Cockeyed Cavaliers

6.5

Mary Ann Dale

1934

Dixiana

5.3

Nanny - Pewee's Girl

1930

Credits

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Actress

Too Many Blondes
6.4
- Lorene La Rue
- 1941
Roar of the Press
5.6
- Frances Harris
- 1941
Repent at Leisure
5.6
- Flip Sales Girl (uncredited)
- 1941
Laddie
6.4
- Louise (uncredited)
- 1940
S.O.S. Tidal Wave
5.8
- Mable
- 1939
Twelve Crowded Hours
5.5
- Thelma
- 1939
Silly Billies
6.2
- Mary Blake
- 1936
The Rainmakers
5.9
- Margie Spencer
- 1935
The Old Homestead
6.5
- Elsie Wilson
- 1935
Without Children
6.7
- Carol Cole
- 1935
In the Spotlight
Short
- Dorothy
- 1935
The Curtain Falls
6.0
- Dot Scorsby (credit only)
- 1934
If This Isn't Love
Short
- 1934
Cockeyed Cavaliers
6.5
- Mary Ann Dale
- 1934
School for Girls
7.1
- Dorothy Bosworth
- 1934

Soundtrack

Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
6.8
- performer: "Jericho"
- 2012
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
8.1
Video
- performer: "Unidentified Tune", "Whistling the Blues Away" (uncredited)
- 2008
Silly Billies
6.2
- performer: "Tumble on Tumbleweed" (1931) (uncredited)
- 1936
The Rainmakers
5.9
- performer: "Isn't Love the Grandest Thing?" (1935) (uncredited)
- 1935
The Old Homestead
6.5
- performer: "Somehow I Knew"
- 1935
Cockeyed Cavaliers
6.5
- performer: "And the Big Bad Wolf was Dead" (1934), "Dilly Dally" (1934) (uncredited)
- 1934
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
6.4
- performer: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" (1933) ("Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" (1933), uncredited)
- 1934
Plane Crazy
5.5
Short
- performer: "I Feel I'm Safe with You" (uncredited)
- 1933
Girl Crazy
5.8
- performer: "You've Got What Gets Me" (1932) (uncredited)
- 1932
Peach O'Reno
6.4
- performer: "From Niagara Falls to Reno" (uncredited)
- 1931
Caught Plastered
6.2
- performer: "I'm That Way About You" (1931) (uncredited)
- 1931
Cracked Nuts
6.1
- performer: "Dance" (1931) (uncredited)
- 1931
Half Shot at Sunrise
6.0
- performer: "WHISTLING THE BLUES AWAY" (1930) (uncredited)
- 1930
Dixiana
5.3
- performer: "My One Ambition Is You" (1930) (uncredited)
- 1930
The Cuckoos
6.0
- performer: "I Love You So Much (It's a Wonder You Don't Feel It)" (1930), "Dancing the Devil Away" (1930) (uncredited)
- 1930

Personal details

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Height
- 5′ (1.52 m)
Born
- May 23, 1911
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
- June 24, 1999
- San Diego, California, USA(respiratory failure)
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Trivia
In the course of making Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934), she was dropped during a dance number, injuring her spine. This would cause her pain for the rest of her life.