Dorothy Appleby

Dorothy Appleby (January 6, 1906 – August 9, 1990) was an American film actress. She appeared in over 50 films from 1931 to 1943.
Career
Appleby gained early acting experience as an understudy and a chorus member in plays in New York City. A newspaper article reported that Appleby "came to New York fresh from winning a Maine beauty contest."
Appleby was seen in many supporting roles, almost always in short subjects or low-budget feature films.
She soon found steady work in Columbia Pictures' two-reel comedies. She appeared frequently with The Three Stooges. She worked with Columbia comics Andy Clyde, El Brendel, and Hugh Herbert, and she had an uncredited part in John Ford's Stagecoach.
Some of her Stooge comedies were Loco Boy Makes Good, So Long Mr. Chumps, and In the Sweet Pie and Pie. One memorable appearance was as Mexican brunette Rosita in 1940's Cookoo Cavaliers. In the film, Appleby gets clobbered by the Stooges when a facial "mud pack" made of concrete dries on her face. One of her later screen roles was a one-line bit (playing a college student at age 35) in the 1941 Jane Withers feature Small Town Deb.
Personal life and death
In October 1925, newspapers reported that Appleby had married Teddy Hayes, an athletic trainer. Days later, however, Appleby contradicted that report. "Honest Injun, I'm single," she said. "Didn't mean it when I said I was married to Teddy Hayes." On May 11, 1932, she was granted a divorce from actor Morgan H. Galloway.
Dorothy Appleby died in Hicksville, New York on August 9, 1990, aged 84.
Partial filmography
Paradise for Two (1927) - Young girl (uncredited)
New York (1927) - Young girl (uncredited)
Square Crooks (1928) - Kay Ellison
Under Eighteen (1931) - Elsie
Trick for Trick (1933) - Maisie Henry
King of the Wild Horses (1933) - Napeeta
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) - Woman in Bar (uncredited)
As the Earth Turns (1934) - Doris
Jail Birds of Paradise (1934, Short) - Miss Deering - Prison Warder
School for Girls (1934) - Florence Burns
I Give My Love (1934) - Alice Henley
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934) - Mitzie LaVerne
Fate's Fathead (1934, Short) - Dorothy Chase
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) - Nardi
Let 'Em Have It (1935) - Lola
Riffraff (1936) - Gertie
Lady of Secrets (1936) - Erma (uncredited)
North of Nome (1936) - Ruby
Paradise Express (1937) - Kay Carson
Sea Racketeers (1937) - Dancer (uncredited)
Make a Wish (1937) - Telephone Girl
Fit for a King (1937) - Waitress (uncredited)
Small Town Boy (1937) - Sandra French
Live, Love and Learn (1937) - Lou - Bob's Model (uncredited)
Making the Headlines (1938) - Claire Sandford
Stagecoach (1939) - Girl in Saloon (uncredited)
The Flying Irishman (1939) - Maybelle - a Waitress (uncredited)
When Tomorrow Comes (1939) - Waitress (uncredited)
The Women (1939) - Treatment Girl (uncredited)
Nothing But Pleasure (1940, Short) - Mrs. Plunkett
Convicted Woman (1940) - Daisy
Rockin' Thru the Rockies (1940, Short) - Tessie
Pardon My Berth Marks (1940, Short) - Mary Christman
The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940) - Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
Gold Rush Maisie (1940) - Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)
From Nurse to Worse (1940, Short) - Dr. Lerious' Receptionist (uncredited)
The Taming of the Snood (1940, Short) - Miss Wilson
The Spook Speaks (1940, Short) - Newlywed Wife
The Devil's Pipeline (1940) - Stewardess
Cookoo Cavaliers (1940, Short) - Rosita (uncredited)
High Sierra (1941) - Margie - Joe's Girlfriend (uncredited)
So Long Mr. Chumps (1941, Short) - Pomeroy's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Manpower (1941) - Wilma
In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941, Short) - Tiska Jones
General Nuisance (1941, Short) - Army nurse Dorothy
His Ex Marks the Spot (1941, Short) - Buster's second wife
Loco Boy Makes Good (1942, Short) - Twitchell's Girl
What's the Matador? (1942, Short) - O'Brien's Secretary
Small Town Deb (1942) - Tim's dancing partner (uncredited)
References
External links
Dorothy Appleby at threestooges.net
1906 births
1990 deaths
American film actresses
20th-century American actresses