Dorothy Dayton

Dorothy Dayton

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

#1Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

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#2Blue Skies

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Dancer

6.2 / 10
ComedyRomance

Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.

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#3You and Me

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Sales Clerk (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeRomanceComedy

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

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#4Stand Up and Cheer!

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m as Toe Dancer

5.3 / 10
ComedyMusicFamily

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.

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#5Thank Your Lucky Stars

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as A Lucky Star (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
ComedyMusic

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

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#6College Holiday

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as Dancer

5.7 / 10
Comedy

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

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#7King of Chinatown

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Nightclub Girl (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
ActionCrimeDrama

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.

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#8Cafe Society

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Girl

7.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

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#9Too Much Harmony

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m as Dancer

7.0 / 10
ComedyMusic

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

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#10Buck Benny Rides Again

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Minor Role

5.0 / 10
ComedyWestern

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

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#11The Way of All Flesh

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Cigarette Girl

4.6 / 10
RomanceCrimeDrama

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

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#12Sudden Money

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Girl

7.0 / 10
DramaComedy

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.

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#13Cocoanut Grove

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Dancing Coach

9.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

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#14$1,000 a Touchdown

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Gen (uncredited)

3.7 / 10
Comedy

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

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#15Man About Town

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Dancer (uncredited)

4.5 / 10
ComedyMusic

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

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