Dorothy Burgess

Dorothy Burgess

Nacimiento : 1907-03-04,

Muerte : 1961-08-20

Perfil

Dorothy Burgess

Películas

El gran desfile de la comedia
(archive footage)
Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
The West Side Kid
Toodles
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.
Girls in Chains
Mrs. Peters
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
Man of Courage
Sally Dickson
A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
Lone Star Ranger
Trixie
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
Dama por una noche
Flo
Jenny Blake (Joan Blondell) es la joven propietaria de un barco casino del Mississippi. Jack Morgan (John Wayne) es un jugador fascinado por ella hasta el punto de enamorarse. Al llegar el carnaval, Jack se las ingenia para que Jenny sea escogida la Reina anual, lo que ella aprovecha para introducirse en la alta sociedad de Memphis. Pronto surge la oportunidad de contraer matrimonio con un hombre rico y Jenny la aprovecha, pero la familia de alta sociedad no la acepta y deciden humillarla. Jack, que nunca había dejado de amar a Jenny, correrá a salvarla de un mundo que Jenny ya no desea conocer.
Cadet Girl
Minor Role (uncredited)
Un cadete de West Point se enamora de una chica que canta en la banda de su hermano. Deciden casarse, aunque ello signifique que ha de dejar la academia, pero cuando el hermano de su novia escribe una balada patriótica, comprenderá que el deber es más importante que el matrimonio...
I Want a Divorce
Peppy Gilman
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
La dama en cuestión
Antoinette (uncredited)
Natalie (Rita Hayworth) es acusada de asesinato. André (Brian Aherne), uno de los miembros del jurado, está tan seguro de su inocencia que logra convencer a sus compañeros para que la declaren inocente. Además, compadecido de ella, le ofrece trabajo en su tienda de bicicletas. Por su parte, Pierre (Glenn Ford), el hijo de André, se enamora de Natalie, aunque cree que su padre tiene un lío con ella.
Cuento de aldea
Lulu Stevenson
Las insidiosas habladurías típicas de un pueblo pequeño hacen muy desgraciados a un joven y a la mujer casada de la que está enamorado.
Friends Of Mr. Sweeney
Millie Seagrove
Un hombre tímido y apocado finge ser un sofisticado hombre de mundo cuando recibe la visita de un antiguo compañero de la universidad.
Una esposa infiel
Ann Brewster
Un abogado acepta defender al amante de su esposa, acusado de asesinato, con la condición de que ella no testifique y vuelva a su lado al acabar el juicio. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Circus Clown
Babe (aka Miss Mercedes)
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
Black Moon
Juanita Perez Lane
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Affairs of a Gentleman
Nan Fitzgerald
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
A Modern Hero
Hazel Flint Radier
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
Orient Express
Mabel Warren
Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
Fashions of 1934
Glenda
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide discount shops with cheap copies of Paris couture dresses.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Dotty
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
From Headquarters
Dolly White
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Vuelo nocturno
Pellerin's Girlfriend
Cuenta la historia de un grupo de esforzados pilotos del servicio de correos a las órdenes de Riviere.
Ladies Must Love
Peggy Burns
Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
Headline Shooter
Ruby - Burnett's Moll
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
The Important Witness
Ruth Dana
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
It's Great to Be Alive
Al Moran
An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.
I Love That Man
Ethel aka Giggles
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
Tú eres mío
Gypsy
Ruby se enamora de Eddie, un joven que se dedica a estafar a incautos. En un episodio de chantaje fallido, Eddie sufre un ataque de celos y mata accidentalmente a un hombre.
Rusty Rides Alone
Mona Quillan
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
Strictly Personal
Bessie
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.
Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
En boca de todos
'Sister' Susie
La atractiva Nan Taylor integrante de una banda que roba un banco, va a la cárcel gracias al evangelista David Slade... que la ama.
On Your Guard
'Sissy' Shannon
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
Malay Nights
Eve Blake
The owner of a pearl bed falls in love with a bitter young girl who had been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous ex-boyfriend.
Out of Singapore
Concha Renaldo
While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
The Stoker
Margarita Valdez
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
Play Girl
Edna
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Taxi!
Marie Costa
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Oh! Oh! Cleopatra
Cleopatra
A Masquers Club comedy short
Recaptured Love
Peggy Price
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.
Swing High
Trixie
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.
En el viejo Arizona
Tonia Maria
Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter) es un bandido del Viejo Oeste que anda siempre escapando del sheriff del lugar, Mickey Dunn (Edmund Lowe). El problema viene cuando ambos se enamoran de la misma mujer, Tonia (Dorothy Burgess), la cual ayudará a Dunn a capturar a Cisco Kid, vivo o muerto. (FILMAFFINITY)
Fashion News
Self (1929)
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.