Dorothy Vaughan

Dorothy Vaughan

Nascimento : 1890-11-05, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Morte : 1955-03-15

Perfil

Dorothy Vaughan

Filmes

Three Husbands
Maid (uncredited)
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Chain Gang
Mrs. Briggs (uncredited)
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
Pretty Baby
Subway Commuter (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
A Wonderful Life
Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?
Rider from Tucson
Mrs. Brigitte O'Rielly
In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Robert Shayne), Gypsy Avery (Veda Ann Borg) and Jackson (Marshall Reed) hire Bob Rankin (Douglas Fowley') to kidnap Tug's sweetheart Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). Rankin hides Jane and then demands half the mine from the other crooks. Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), friends of Tug's, find Jane and taker her to safety. The conspirators then shoot Rankin, capture Tug and force him to take them to his claim. Dave and Chito are close behind.
Um Passo em Falso
Leona (uncredited)
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
Home in San Antone
Ma Gibson
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
Fighting Fools
Mrs. Higgins
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Mrs. Alvin
Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.
Um Anjo Caiu do Céu
Delia
Um bispo tentando construir uma nova catedral pede a Deus uma orientação. Um anjo (Cary Grant) chega, mas a sua ajuda não é sobre a captação de recursos. Henry Brougham é um bispo dedicado à nova construção de uma catedral que será paga pela viúva Agnes Hamilton. Dudley, um anjo, é enviado pelo céu para ajudá-lo. Mas Dudley acaba sendo tão prestativo e bondoso para todos que Henry acaba se sentindo ameaçado.
A Dama de Shanghai
Old Woman (uncredited)
Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister é uma mulher que é salva de um grupo de ladrões pelo jovem Michael O'Hara. Como agradecimento, ela o convida para trabalhar no iate de seu milionário marido. Michael aceita o emprego, mas não pelo dinheiro, e sim para ficar mais próximo de Elsa e, assim, tentar fugir com ela - pois agora ele está completamente apaixonado pela moça.
Emboscada
Mrs. Miller, Fleming's Housekeeper
Um serial killer em Londres está assassinando jovens mulheres, que encontra através das colunas pessoais de jornais; ele anuncia cada um de seus crimes à polícia, enviando-lhes um poema enigmático. Depois de uma dançarina desaparecer, a polícia convoca uma amiga americana dela, Sandra Carpenter, para responder aos anúncios nas colunas pessoais e assim atrair o assassino.
Robin Hood Of Texas
Mrs. O'Brien
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
O Ovo e Eu
Emmy
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
Trail to San Antone
The Commodore
Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can regain his self-confidence. Meanwhile, Gene and comical sidekick Sterling Holloway have another problem on their hands: A rogue stallion has "kidnapped" Gene's prize mare. Piloting a plane, Autry seeks out and locates the stallion.
Meu Único Amor
Lucy
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
That Brennan Girl
Mrs. Reagan, Denny's Mother
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
The Bamboo Blonde
Mom
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
Algemas do Destino
Nancy, Henry's wife
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
Up Goes Maisie
Landlady (Uncredited)
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
Aventura
Mrs. Ludlow (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
The Town Went Wild
Nurse Irma Reeves
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
O Fantasma da Múmia
Ada Blake
Supremo Sacerdote Yousef Bey (John Carradine) é enviado aos Estados Unidos para resgatar a múmia de Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) e da princesa Ananka e trazê-las de volta ao Egito. Ao realizar um ritual no Museu onde se encontra a múmia da princesa Ananka, ela some no ar como se fosse uma alma e reencarna no corpo de Amina (Ramsay Ames), uma egípcia que vive na América e têm a mesma aparência da falecida princesa. Agora Kharis deve sequestrar Amina e levá-la até o Supremo Sacerdote, para juntos voltarem para o Egito e obterem o descanso eterno em sua tumba.
Moonlight in Vermont
Mrs. Costello
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
Pistoleiros Sem Pistola
Nurse #1 (uncredited)
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
Keep 'Em Slugging
Mrs. Meegan
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Era Uma Lua de Mel
Katie's Mother (uncredited)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Gentleman Jim
Ma Corbett
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Soberba
Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
Rica família de uma cidadezinha do sul dos Estados Unidos vê sua supremacia social pouco a pouco comprometida pela industrialização. Seu jovem e mimado herdeiro se coloca entre a mãe viúva e o homem que ela sempre amou.
The Incredible Stranger
Mrs. Brewster (uncredited)
In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep a promise.
Mulher Gangster
Jenkins
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Tropel de Bárbaros
Mrs. O'Leary
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Go West, Young Lady
Townswoman
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
One Foot in Heaven
Mrs. Ehrlich (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Three Girls About Town
Mrs. McDougall, scrubwoman
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Bad Men of Missouri
Mrs. Dalton
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Secret Evidence
Mrs. Wilson
A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight. The visit triggers a series of events resulting in a trial for attempted murder.
Kitty Foyle
Mary - Second Charwoman (uncredited)
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper, of her boyfriend Chris Harper. Doc has been a real friend and father to Chris, who, under his guidance, has learned to take care of all the sick animals in town, but lack of money keeps the widow from sending Chris on to finish high school and medical training is out of the question. Wealthy Grandpa Harper sends his attorney Baker to tell Mrs. Harper that all of Jimmy's dreams could be realized if the widow, whom the grandfather dislikes, would give up custody of her son. The lawyer also begins to court Julie and this throws a kink in Betty's plans to see her father and the widow get married. Written by Les Adams
Diamond Frontier
Mrs. Willem
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
O Gorila Matador
Mother Clifford
Dr. Bernard é um cientista louco que procura curar a pólio de uma jovem. Ele precisa de fluido espinhal de um ser humano para completar a fórmula do seu soro. Enquanto isso, um macaco de circo sai da gaiola e aterroriza as pessoas da cidade.
Correspondente Estrangeiro
Jones' Mother (uncredited)
Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) é o correspondente de um jornal de Nova York que viaja para a Europa usando o pseudônimo de Huntley Haverstock, quando a 2ª Guerra Mundial era uma realidade cada vez mais iminente. Inicialmente ele vai para Londres mas logo está em Amsterdã, onde juntamente com várias pessoas testemunha o assassinato de Van Meer (Albert Bassermann), um diplomata holandês. Entretanto, logo ele toma consciência que quem morreu foi um sósia e que Van Meer na verdade foi sequestrado por agentes do inimigo, que querem arrancar do diplomata importantes segredos. Assim sua situação fica desesperadora, pois sua história é em princípio absurda e, além disto, estão querendo matá-lo.
Dentro da Noite
Courtroom Matron (uncredited)
Joe Fabrini (George Raft) e Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) são dois irmãos motoristas de caminhão que levam uma acidentada e explorada vida como caminhoneiros. Joe sonha com o dia em que terão seu próprio negócio. Eles acabam sendo demitidos do serviço de um patrão corrupto. Um acidente com Paul mudará os sonhos dessa dupla, e para tentar manter um emprego, Joe se vê envolvido em uma trama de crime com a mal-intencionada Lana Carlsen (Ida Lupino), mulher de seu patrão.
Hot Steel
Mrs. Morrison
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
An Angel from Texas
Mrs. Rogers
Palco atingido, Lydia Weston deixa sua pequena cidade no Texas e vai para a Broadway. Deixado para trás está seu namorado Peter. Lydia envia cartas e recortes de notícias de volta para casa dizendo a todos que ela agora é uma grande estrela. Peter logo vai para Nova York para surpreendê-la, mas em vez disso ele fica surpreso ao descobrir que Lydia não tem emprego e está falida. A dupla logo se envolve com alguns produtores falsos que enganam Peter para que apoie sua peça com Lydia na liderança.
Amada Por Três
Prisoner's Wife on Ferry
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt (George Raft) sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda (Joan Bennett), testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma (Lloyd Nolan), who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan (Walter Pidgeon), who knows nothing about her past.
Glove Slingers
Mary Kelly (uncredited)
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
First Love
Ollie, Mrs. Clinton's Maid
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake, her cousin's boyfriend.
Espionage Agent
Stout Woman Bumped by Garrett
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
O Homem da Máscara de Ferro
Midwife
Os Três Mosqueteiros vão resgatar o rei que está preso injustamente pelo seu irmão gêmeo. Luís XIV da França faz artimanhas para manter seu irmão gêmeo Philippe encarcerado em uma máscara de ferro, longe do conhecimento do público, que dava mostras de preferir Philippe como Rei da França. Mas os mosqueteiros e o camarada D’Artagnan se combinam para salvar Philippe.
A Mocidade de Lincoln
Apple Pie Baker (uncredited)
Nova Salem, Illinois, 1832. Uma família que está viajando em uma carroça necessita de mantimentos da loja de Abraham Lincoln e a única coisa de valor que eles tem para trocar é um livro sobre Direito. Abraham fala sobre suas ambições com Ann, uma jovem mulher que logo morre. Ele se muda para Springfield, a nova capital do estado, e em 1937, juntamente com o amigo John T. Stuart abre um escritório de advocacia. Lincoln conhece Mary Todd, uma mulher do Kentucky que, ao contrário de Lincoln, era rica. É focado o primeiro caso de Lincoln, no qual primeiramente impede que Matt Clay e Adam Clay sejam linchados por terem assassinado Scrub White. Ambos os irmãos se declaram culpados, como se um protegesse o outro. Abigail Clay, a única pessoa que poderia testemunhar, é a mãe dos acusados e se recusa a dizer algo, pois o testemunho dela salvaria um dos filhos, mas automaticamente condenaria o outro à forca.
Chamem o Dr. Kildare
Mother of Baby Vaughan (uncredited)
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
Within the Law
Miss McGuinness - Prison Matron
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Gambling Ship
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Little Orphan Annie
Mrs. Milligan
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
Slander House
Mrs. Horton
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Billy The Kid Returns
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
Boy Meets Girl
Happy's Nurse
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
The Chaser
Woman Auto Driver
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Cowboy de Asfalto
Fat Woman
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
A Criminal Is Born
Martha Wheeler
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Little Miss Thoroughbred
Mrs. O'Reilly
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
Assassin of Youth
Mrs. Mary Barry
Uma garota que vive em uma cidade pequena dos Estados Unidos se involve com um círculo de adolescentes usuários de maconha e começa a cair a caminho da ruína. Um repórter se disfarça como garçon em uma lanchonete para investigar a gangue de viciados.
Here's Flash Casey
Mrs. O'Hara
After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.
Quick Money
Lyda Tompkins
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
Telephone Operator
Mrs. Molloy
A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.
The Life of the Party
Dressmaker
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Marjorie's Neighbor (uncredited)
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
O Filho do Herói
Miss Hodges the School Mistress
A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
Michael O'Halloran
Mrs. Tolliver
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of the house and file for divorce. Positive she'll lose her children unless she shows the judge that she's changed her wild ways, she takes in two poor street kids, a brother and sister.
That Man's Here Again
Mrs. Matthews
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
Legião Negra
Mrs. Grogan
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Love Begins at Twenty
Evalina 'Evie' Gillingwater
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
Times Square Playboy
Mrs.Nellie Calhoun
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
I Married a Doctor
Hospital Nurse
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Irish matron
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.