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      Dorothy Granger

      Dorothy Granger

      Highest Rated: 100% The Dentist (1932)

      Lowest Rated: 10% Raintree County (1957)

      Birthday: Nov 21, 1912

      Birthplace: New London, Ohio, USA

      Dorothy Granger was an incredibly prolific comic actress working primarily from the 1930s through the 1950s, though her nearly 250 movie credit count is misleading since most of the titles were comedy shorts. Granger won a Texas beauty contest as a 13-year-old, and by 18 she was appearing in her first films. Eventually, Granger worked with nearly every comedy giant, beginning with Fatty Arbuckle (as a director), followed by Laurel & Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Three Stooges during the 1930s, and later teamed up with Abbott and Costello and Jack Benny in the 1950s. She earned the reputation as the perfect comedic foil and appeared with a host of lesser-known figures in numerous comedies, including "Wig-Wag" in 1935, and "Two Jills and a Jack" in 1947. Granger's most frequent collaborator, meanwhile, was the not-quite-legendary comic star Leon Errol, whose real name also became his on-screen name; Granger played his on-screen wife, ''Mrs. Errol.'' The duo made their first film together in the early '30s, though they didn't begin their true stretch of comedy shorts for RKO until 1944, beginning with "Girls! Girls! Girls!," and not letting up until "Too Many Wives" in 1951. Understandably burnt out on comedies, Granger also ventured into feature-length Westerns later in her career, where she sacrificed a change in genre for smaller roles.

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      The Dentist
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      Raintree County

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      Movies

      Credit
      10% 51% Raintree County Madame Gaubert (uncredited) (Character) - 1957
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Shadows Over Chinatown Joan Mercer (Character) - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Runaround Hotel Desk Clerk/Switchboard Operator (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Under Western Skies Maybelle (Character) - 1945
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore Irene (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet 33% One Body Too Many Mona Rutherford (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Triple Trouble Mrs. Errol (Character) - 1944
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Rough on Rents Renter's Wife (Character) - 1942
      No Score Yet 14% Take a Letter, Darling Switchboard Operator (uncredited) (Character) - 1942
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Lady From Cheyenne Myrtle (Character) - 1941
      No Score Yet 55% When the Daltons Rode Nancy (Character) - 1940
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Blue Montana Skies Mrs. Millie Potter (Character) - 1939
      No Score Yet 55% The Ex-Mrs. Bradford Fill-in Receptionist (Character) - 1936
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Alibi Bye Bye Dolly (Character) - 1935
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Fate's Fathead Fanny McGinnis (Character) - 1934
      100% 68% The Dentist Miss Peppitone (Character) - 1932
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Jitters the Butler Mrs. McPhinn (Character) - 1932
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Fighting Fool Nina (Character) - 1932
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Reckless Decision Hortense (Character) - 1931
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pip From Pittsburg Dot (Character) - 1931
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Dollar Dizzy Woman Who Drops Her Pearls (Character) - 1930

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Lassie Grace (Guest Star) 1955
      No Score Yet No Score Yet I Married Joan Unknown (Guest Star) 1954