
Dorothy Devore
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Dorothy Devore (June 22, 1899 β September 10, 1976) was a leading and popular American silent-film actor and comedian in her time. Born as Alma Inez Williams in Fort Worth, Texas in 1899, her family soon moved to Los Angeles when she was still a young girl. It was there where she completed her education and then joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for one year. She then went to Lyons and Moran comedies at Universal Pictures. It was at Universal where she was "discovered" by ...
Known For
Filmography

Miracle on Main Street
1939
as Woman in Church
Take the Heir
1930
as Susan

The Wrong Mr. Wright
1927
as Teddy

Mountains of Manhattan
1927
as Marion Wright

Senor Daredevil
1926
as Sally Blake

The Gilded Highway
1926
as Primrose Welby

The Man Upstairs
1926
as Marion Larnard

Money to Burn
1926
as Dolores Valdez

The Social Highwayman
1926
as Elsie Van Tyler

The Midnight Flyer
1925
as Mary Baxter

The Prairie Wife
1925
as Chaddie Green

A Broadway Butterfly
1925
as Irene Astaire

The Narrow Street
1925
as Doris

His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1925
as Marie Breede

Who Cares
1925
as Joan

How Baxter Butted In
1925
as Beulah Dyer

Fighting the Flames
1925
as Alice Doran

Three Weeks in Paris
1925
as Mary Brown

Stay Single
1924

The Tomboy
1924
as Tommy Smith

Hold Your Breath
1924
as Mabel

Getting Gertie's Goat
1924
as Gertie

Navy Blues
1923
as Mrs. James Warren
Winter Has Came
1923
as Mary

Pick and Shovel
1923

Kidding Katie
1923
as Katie

Fair Enough
1922
as Dolly aka Dolly the Dip
Magnificent Brute
1921
Nothing Like It
1921

Saving Sister Susie
1921

45 Minutes from Broadway
1920
as Mary Jane Jenkins
'Twas Midnight
1919

The Girl Dodger
1919

Know Thy Wife
1918
as Betty Browning
The House Cleaning Horrors
1918
as Dorothy

String Beans
1918
as Minor Role

The Law of the North
1918