Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan (November 5, 1890 – March 15, 1955) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 143 films and television. Vaughan is best known for appearing in Slander House (1930), The Ape (1940) and Lady Gangster (1942). She was sometimes credited as Dorothy Vaughn.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8683 |
| Birthday | 1890-11-03 |
| Place of Birth | Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Also Known As | Dorothy Vaughn, |
1941
Manpower
6.833/18
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tens...
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Manpower
1944
The Town Went Wild
7/2
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is ab...
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The Town Went Wild
1942
Lady Gangster
5.659/22
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the mone...
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Lady Gangster
1942
Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.283/53
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
1940
The Ape
4.841/41
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experime...
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The Ape
1948
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
5.568/22
An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife follows the trail of clues to find the real perpetr...
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
1936
Times Square Playboy
4.833/6
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.
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Times Square Playboy
1941
Three Girls About Town
6.5/4
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...
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Three Girls About Town
1949
Fighting Fools
6/3
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...
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Fighting Fools
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
7.411/140
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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The Pride of the Yankees
1938
Here's Flash Casey
5.571/7
After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.
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Here's Flash Casey
1937
Telephone Operator
4.8/10
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 switc...
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Telephone Operator
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
6.783/69
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new...
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It Happened Tomorrow
1950
Three Husbands
5.357/14
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...
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Three Husbands
1946
That Brennan Girl
5.417/12
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...
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That Brennan Girl
1946
The Bamboo Blonde
5.6/5
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 P...
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The Bamboo Blonde
1938
Slander House
4.143/7
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 hus...
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Slander House
1937
Quick Money
5.5/4
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...
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Quick Money
1941
Secret Evidence
7.5/2
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 boyfri...
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Secret Evidence
1950
A Wonderful Life
9/1
Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn fro...
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A Wonderful Life
1937
The Life of the Party
6.2/5
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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The Life of the Party
1938
Boy Meets Girl
6.857/7
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 abo...
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Boy Meets Girl
1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
6.333/3
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
1937
That Man's Here Again
7/2
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 or...
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That Man's Here Again
1938
Little Miss Thoroughbred
4.75/4
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
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Little Miss Thoroughbred
1939
Within the Law
6.5/6
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful wa...
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Within the Law
1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
6.556/9
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. Wh...
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Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
7.207/191
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first l...
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Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
The Man in the Iron Mask
7.122/37
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
First Love
7.647/17
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 har...
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First Love
1939
Espionage Agent
6.3/10
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 esp...
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Espionage Agent
1938
Gambling Ship
10/1
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
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Gambling Ship
1947
Big Town After Dark
5.556/9
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Big Town After Dark
1939
Glove Slingers
5.25/4
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
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Glove Slingers
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
7.338/474
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1937
Hoosier Schoolboy
7/2
A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
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Hoosier Schoolboy
1947
The Lady from Shanghai
7.356/720
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947
The Sea of Grass
6.103/29
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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The Sea of Grass
1936
Love Begins at Twenty
6.5/2
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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Love Begins at Twenty
1936
I Married a Doctor
5.25/4
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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I Married a Doctor
1935
Mary Burns, Fugitive
9/1
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
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Mary Burns, Fugitive
1940
Foreign Correspondent
6.979/442
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an a...
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Foreign Correspondent
1940
The House Across the Bay
5.633/15
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s...
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The House Across the Bay
1940
Kitty Foyle
6.566/53
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
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Kitty Foyle
1942
Gentleman Jim
7.174/69
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...
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Gentleman Jim
1940
They Drive by Night
6.918/134
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri...
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They Drive by Night
1940
The Old Swimmin' Hole
7/1
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 wido...
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
1940
An Angel from Texas
5.2/5
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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An Angel from Texas
1947
Robin Hood Of Texas
7/1
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...
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Robin Hood Of Texas
1950
Rider from Tucson
7/2
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 Jack...
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Rider from Tucson
1947
Trail to San Antone
7.5/2
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 rega...
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Trail to San Antone
1943
Keep 'Em Slugging
5.8/5
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 tangl...
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Keep 'Em Slugging
1950
Chain Gang
7.5/4
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
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Chain Gang
1941
Bad Men of Missouri
6.167/6
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 buyin...
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Bad Men of Missouri
1949
Home in San Antone
7/1
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....
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Home in San Antone
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
5.5/4
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1941
Go West, Young Lady
6.75/6
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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Go West, Young Lady
1944
The Mummy's Ghost
5.637/84
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning th...
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The Mummy's Ghost
1942
The Incredible Stranger
6.667/3
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...
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The Incredible Stranger
1938
Little Orphan Annie
8/1
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...
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Little Orphan Annie
1938
Assassin of Youth
3/17
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltr...
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Assassin of Youth
1946
The Man I Love
6.103/29
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 wa...
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The Man I Love
1947
The Egg and I
7.063/48
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...
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The Egg and I
1940
Diamond Frontier
9/1
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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Diamond Frontier
1947
The Bishop's Wife
7.097/278
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily...
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The Bishop's Wife
1938
The Chaser
8/2
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 tr...
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The Chaser
1950
Pretty Baby
6.8/5
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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Pretty Baby
1943
Hit the Ice
6.036/28
After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an o...
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Hit the Ice
1949
Take One False Step
5.389/18
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...
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Take One False Step
1947
Lured
6.293/95
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached b...
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Lured
1937
Black Legion
6.586/58
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates fore...
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Black Legion
1946
They Made Me a Killer
5.667/12
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
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They Made Me a Killer
1937
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
5.625/8
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1945
Adventure
6.417/12
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Adventure
1938
A Criminal Is Born
7.75/4
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...
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A Criminal Is Born
1946
Up Goes Maisie
6.75/4
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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Up Goes Maisie
1941
One Foot in Heaven
6.886/22
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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One Foot in Heaven
1943
Moonlight in Vermont
6.5/2
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Moonlight in Vermont
1938
Billy The Kid Returns
4.909/11
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 th...
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Billy The Kid Returns
1940
Hot Steel
7.5/2
Matt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works. Trouble quickly ensues.
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Hot Steel
1937
Michael O'Halloran
9/1
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 lo...
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Michael O'Halloran
1952
The Merry Widow
6.292/12
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Mars...
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The Merry Widow
1937
Slim
6.5/4
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love...
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Slim
1941
The Strawberry Blonde
6.964/69
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nef...
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The Strawberry Blonde
1941
Million Dollar Baby
6.333/6
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
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Million Dollar Baby
1947
High Wall
6.379/29
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county...
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