Dorothy Adams
Date of birth: 1900-01-06
Place of birth: Hannah, North Dakota, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dorothy Addams, Dorothy A. Foulger, Dorothy Haddon
Biography
Dorothy Adams was an American stage, screen, and television actress.
Movie Credits
The Killing
1956-06-06
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946-12-25
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return
Laura
1944-10-11
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
The Devil Commands
1941-08-15
A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.
There's No Business Like Show Business
1954-12-16
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets ha
Lady Gangster
1942-04-01
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery
The Women
1939-09-01
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Fallen Angel
1945-11-15
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around t
The Big Country
1958-09-30
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952-02-16
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t
Home Town Story
1951-05-18
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the stat
Circumstantial Evidence
1945-04-20
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an
Johnny Concho
1956-07-01
In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!
The Flame of New Orleans
1941-07-07
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing se
Bathing Beauty
1944-06-27
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal l
These Wilder Years
1956-08-17
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
The Falcon in San Francisco
1945-07-20
While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl
The Inner Circle
1946-08-07
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969-10-10
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurp
Whistling in the Dark
1941-08-08
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou
The Jackpot
1950-11-01
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order t
O.S.S.
1946-05-26
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (ba
The Winning Team
1952-06-20
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's
Not Wanted
1949-06-24
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out
So Proudly We Hail
1943-09-09
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a
The Cariboo Trail
1950-08-01
A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
Unconquered
1947-10-10
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to esc
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956-07-08
Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.
The Sainted Sisters
1948-04-30
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide o
On Borrowed Time
1939-07-07
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are
That's My Man
1947-06-01
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he s
From the Terrace
1960-07-15
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his m
Guest Pests
1945-10-20
An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid o
The First Legion
1951-05-04
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946-03-04
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he cont
The Prodigal
1955-05-06
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring
The Foxes of Harrow
1947-09-24
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orle
Tobacco Road
1941-02-20
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors
Penny Serenade
1941-04-24
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after
Condemned Women
1938-03-18
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
The Living Bible
1952-01-01
Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and tr
Carrie
1952-07-17
In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her
Calling Dr. Kildare
1939-04-28
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in
A Child Is Born
1939-12-07
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Bachelor Mother
1939-06-30
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a fo
Dark Shadows
1944-12-16
A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.
The Buckskin Lady
1957-07-01
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Ang
Ninotchka
1939-11-16
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres
Hot Rod Rumble
1957-06-09
Big Arnie tries to make it in a hot-rod gang and get the girl... none who find him all that appealin
Untamed
1940-07-24
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community f
Sentimental Journey
1946-03-06
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she
Bedtime Story
1941-12-25
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is t
3:10 to Yuma
1957-08-07
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans a
Babies for Sale
1940-06-14
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless ad
Gunman's Walk
1958-07-15
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, u
Cross-Country Romance
1940-07-12
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Captain Eddie
1945-06-18
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver an
Since You Went Away
1944-06-30
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose pa
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
1940-08-05
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left
Lucky Partners
1940-08-02
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
The Fight for Life
1940-03-07
The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the tale
Phantoms, Inc.
1945-06-09
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who
Broadway Musketeers
1938-10-08
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a youn
Fort Osage
1952-02-10
Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territo
The Shepherd of the Hills
1941-07-18
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparent
He Walked by Night
1949-02-06
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens
Unwed Mother
1958-11-23
A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who
A Boy and His Dog
1946-12-26
11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because
The Ten Commandments
1956-10-05
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of
Samson and Delilah
1949-12-21
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeanc
The Broken Star
1956-04-01
A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
Joe Smith, American
1942-02-01
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a
Crime Ring
1938-07-08
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buyi
Virginia Hill
1974-11-19
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster B
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O
We Who Are Young
1940-07-19
A man violates company policy by getting married.
Highway West
1941-08-07
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
An Affair to Remember
1957-07-11
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it h
Nocturne
1946-10-29
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it
Peeper
1975-12-03
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath
One Foot in Heaven
1941-11-01
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Keep Your Powder Dry
1945-04-01
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
The Outriders
1950-03-01
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They
Jet Job
1952-04-06
Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A