Dorothy Granger

Known for Acting

11/21/1912

New London, Ohio, USA

Biography

Dorothy Karolyn Granger was an American actress best known for her roles in short subject comedies in Hollywood.

Known For (165 credits)

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Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy

1974

Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.

3.7

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Dondi

1961

World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.

6.4

Movie

Raintree County

1957

In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.

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The Desperados Are in Town

1956

In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.

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One Spooky Night

1955

Fraidy-cat Andy is assigned to demolish a haunted house.

5.8

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New York Confidential

1955

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.

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A-Hunting They Did Go

1953

The boys go off on a hunting weekend, followed closely by their wives.

7.1

The Abbott and Costello Show

1952

Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations arise leading to slapstick and puns.

7.0

Movie

Westward the Women

1951

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.

1.0

Movie

Footlight Varieties

1951

A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years.

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Spooky Wooky

1950

Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterious death occurred in it. No one but Leon wants to live there, and so, a wacky plan is conceived to make Leon change his mind about moving.

6.5

Movie

Lonely Heart Bandits

1950

Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "personals" sections of newspapers, marries them, and both kill the widows for their money.