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'{{Infobox person | name = Dorothy Short | image = Dorothy Short as Mary Lane.png | image_size = | alt = | caption =Dorothy Short as Mary Lane in ''<nowiki>Reefer Madness]]</nowiki>'' | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|6|29}} | birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1963|6|4|1915|6|29}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S. | death_cause = [[Cancer]] | resting_place = [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]] | resting_place_coordinates = Plot: Magnolia, Lot 35 | nationality = | other_names = | ethnicity = <!-- Ethnicity should be supported with a citation from a reliable source --> | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = {{marriage|[[Dave O'Brien (actor)|Dave O'Brien (Fronabarger)]]|1936|1954|reason=divorced}} (2 children) | partner = | children = Patricia Barclay Fronabarger (b. 1942)<br>Pamela Fronabarger (b. 1945)<ref>http://www.b-westerns.com/obrien1.htm</ref> | parents = | relatives = |right|thumb|Dorothy Short as Mary Lane in ''[[Reefer Madness]]'' }} '''Dorothy Short''' (1915 - 1963) was an [[United States|American]] [[film]] [[actress]] mainly in low-budget [[westerns]] and [[Serial (film)|serials]] in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of [[Philadelphia]], she married [[actor]] [[Dave O'Brien (actor)|Dave O'Brien]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Hd8rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hWUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5028,2140940&dq=dorothy-short&hl=en|title='Brothers Of West' Coming To Kentucky|date=May 28, 1948|work=[[Kentucky New Era]]|accessdate=November 9, 2011}}</ref> in 1936, the same year they appeared together in the low-budget exploitation cheapie ''[[Reefer Madness]]'', which in modern times has become a well-known [[cult film]]. She also appeared in another anti-[[marijuana]] film ''[[Assassin of Youth]]'' in 1937. She often appeared alongside her husband in various 'B' pictures and the [[Pete Smith (film producer)|Pete Smith]] series of comedy shorts, in which O'Brien played the lead on many occasions during the 1940s. After their divorce in 1954, Short retired from film acting, and died nine years later at age 47. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{imdb name|id=0795044|name=Dorothy Short}} * {{Find a Grave|114727309}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Short, Dorothy}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:1963 deaths]] [[Category:American film actresses]] [[Category:Film serial actresses]] [[Category:20th-century American actresses]] [[Category:Western (genre) film actresses]]'