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Dorothy Christy

May 26, 1906 - May 21, 1977 (70 years old) in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

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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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The Unfaithful
Mrs. Freedley
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Silver River
Woman (uncredited)
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Miracle on 34th Street
Secretary (uncredited)
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The Fountainhead
Society Woman (uncredited)
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Union Depot
Society Woman Saying Goodbye to Jean (uncredited)
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Slave Ship
Blonde
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Love Is News
Boardinghouse Beauty (uncredited)
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Bright Eyes
Anita Smythe

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