Dot Farley
Dot Farley | |
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.jpg) Farley c. 1923 | |
| Born | Dorothea Farley February 6, 1881 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | May 2, 1971 (aged 90) |
| Other names | Dorothy Farley |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1910–1950 |
Dorothea "Dot" Farley[1] (February 6, 1881 – May 2, 1971) was an American film actress who appeared in 280 motion pictures from 1910 to 1950. She was also known as Dorothy Farley.[2]
Biography
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Born in Chicago, Dorothea Farley was the daughter of Eugene Farley and actress Alma Streeter.[3] Her nickname originated when she sang and danced on stage billed as "Chicago's Little Dot" when she was three years old.[1]
Farley gained acting experience by working for six years in stock theater[3] and made her film debut in 1910.[4] Mainly known for her roles in short comedies, prolific with Mack Sennett in the silent days, she also appeared in Western films in the early 1910s.[2] She was later notable as the mother-in-law of Edgar Kennedy in most of his series of short films at the RKO studios.
Farley was also a writer, with 260 of her stories having been produced by 1924.[5]
Death
Farley died in South Pasadena, California on May 2, 1971, age 90.[2]
Partial Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | The Ranchman's Vengeance | Marie | |
| 1911 | The Harem Skirt | Lost film | |
| 1912 | At the Basket Picnic | Dave's Mother | |
| 1912 | The Peril of the Plains | Eliza, the Mother | Lost film |
| 1913 | Murphy's I.O.U. | Wife | Short Film |
| 1913 | The Bangville Police | Della's Mother | Short Film |
| 1913 | Passions, He Had Three | Short Film | |
| 1913 | A Dollar Did It | Mrs. Riley | Lost film[6] |
| 1913 | Peeping Pete | Short Film unconfirmed | |
| 1913 | The Hubby's Job | uncredited Lost film[6] | |
| 1913 | Fatty Joins the Force | Fatty's Sweetheart | Short Film uncredited |
| 1913 | Miss Fairweather Out West | Miss Fairweather | Short Film |
| 1913 | Some Nerve | The Wife | Short Film |
| 1914 | The Price of Crime | Dorothea Vale | also screenwriter Lost film[6] |
| 1914 | The Toll of the War-Path | Bess | also screenwriter |
| 1914 | Even Unto Death | Dorothea Gordon | also screenwriter |
| 1914 | Soul Mates | The Bride | also screenwriter Short film |
| 1914 | False Pride Has a Fall | Ellen Farley | also screenwriter Short film Lost film[6] |
| 1914 | The Lust of the Red Man | The Settler's Wife | also screenwriter Short film Lost film[6] credited as Dorothea Farley |
| 1915 | Aunt Matilda Outwitted | Aunt Matilda | also screenwriter Lost film[6] |
| 1915 | Buy, Buy Baby! | also screenwriter Lost film[6] | |
| 1915 | Her New Yob | Lebia | also screenwriter Lost film[6] |
| 1915 | Louisa's Battle With Cupid | Louisa | also screenwriter Lost film[6] |
| 1915 | Misplaced Twins | also screenwriter Lost film[6] | |
| 1915 | The Near Capture of Jessie James | Jessie James | also screenwriter Lost film[6] |
| 1915 | She Couldn't Get Away With It | The Spinster | also screenwriter Lost film[6] |
| 1915 | Wheeled Into Matrimony | also screenwriter Lost film[6] | |
| 1915 | A Woman's Way | also screenwriter Lost film[6] | |
| 1916 | Inherited Passions or Are Passions Inherited? | Masie Williams | also screenwriter Lost film[6][7] |
| 1918 | The Paper Hanger’s Revenge or Poor Rich Cleaners | The Cook | Short film |
| 1918 | Rip Roaring Rivals | Nifty Nell | Short film |
| 1920 | An Arabian Nightmare | Hotel Drudge | Short film |
| 1921 | A Small Town Idol | Mrs. Smith | |
| 1921 | Home Talent | Boarder | Lost film[6][7] |
| 1922 | Bright Eyes | The Ambitious Mother | Short film |
| 1922 | The Crossroads of New York | Landlady | Mostly lost, only a fragment survives |
| 1923 | When Knights Were Cold | Short film uncredited | |
| 1923 | Tea: With a Kick! | Mrs. Juniper | Lost film[7] |
| 1923 | The Acquittal | Maid | |
| 1923 | Boy of Mine | Mrs. Pettis | Lost film[7] |
| 1924 | The Mask of Lopez | Townswoman | |
| 1924 | Picking Peaches | The Customer | Short film |
| 1924 | Listen Lester | Miss Pink | |
| 1924 | A Self-Made Failure | uncredited Lost film | |
| 1924 | The Enemy Sex | Ida Summers | |
| 1924 | The Signal Tower | Cousin Gertie | |
| 1924 | The Fatal Mistake | Partly lost film | |
| 1924 | Vanity's Price | Katherine, Vanna's maid | Lost film |
| 1924 | So Big | Widow Paarlenburg | Mostly lost, only a trailer survives |
| 1925 | Border Intrigue | Tough's Sister | Lost film[7] |
| 1925 | My Son | Hattie Smith | Lost film |
| 1925 | The Three Way Trail | ||
| 1925 | Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde | Townswoman | Short film uncredited |
| 1925 | Rugged Water | Mrs. Fuller | Lost film |
| 1925 | The Unchastened Woman | ||
| 1925 | The Red Kimona | The Inquisitive One | |
| 1925 | A Woman of the World | Mrs. Fox | |
| 1925 | The Lure of the Track | ||
| 1926 | Memory Lane | Maid | |
| 1926 | The Grand Duchess and the Waiter | The Countess Prascovia Avaloff | |
| 1926 | The Little Irish Girl | Gertie | Lost film |
| 1926 | Brooding Eyes | Marie De Costa | |
| 1926 | The Still Alarm | Mrs. Maloney | |
| 1926 | Money Talks | Mrs. Chatterton | Lost film |
| 1926 | So This Is Paris | Madame Moreau | uncredited |
| 1926 | Honesty – The Best Policy | Author's Wife | added sequence Lost film |
| 1926 | The Family Upstairs | Mademoiselle Clarice | Lost film |
| 1926 | Young April | Maggie | |
| 1926 | The Timid Terror | Mrs. Milliken | |
| 1926 | Golf Widows | Short film | |
| 1926 | Matrimony Blues | Short film | |
| 1927 | Nobody's Widow | Roxanna's Maid | Lost film |
| 1927 | The Overland Stage | Aunt Viney | Lost film |
| 1927 | McFadden's Flats | Bridget Maloney | Lost film |
| 1927 | Girl in the Rain | Lost film[7] | |
| 1927 | The Shamrock and the Rose | Mrs. Kelly | |
| 1927 | All Aboard | Aunt Patsy | Lost film |
| 1927 | The King of Kings | Maidservant of Caiaphas | |
| 1927 | Yours to Command | Ma O'Brien | Lost film |
| 1927 | The Lost Limited | Lost film | |
| 1927 | His First Flame | Mrs. Benedict | |
| 1927 | The Climbers | Juana, the Duchess' maid | Lost film |
| 1927 | The Tired Business Man | Mrs. McGinnis | Lost film |
| 1927 | Topsy and Eva | uncredited | |
| 1927 | Breakfast at Sunrise | Telephone Operator | uncredited |
| 1927 | The Girl from Everywhere | Madame Zweibach | |
| 1928 | The Garden of Eden | Monte Carlo Switchboard Operator | uncredited |
| 1928 | Lady Be Good | Texas West | Lost film |
| 1928 | Black Feather | Lost film[7] | |
| 1928 | The Code of the Scarlet | Widow Malone | Lost film |
| 1928 | The Head Man | Mrs. Denny | Lost film |
| 1928 | Celebrity | Mother | |
| 1928 | Should a Girl Marry? | Mae Reynolds | Mostly lost, only a trailer survives |
| 1929 | Foolish Husbands | Mrs. Billy Blake | Short film |
| 1929 | Marquis Preferred | Mrs. Gruger | credited as Dorothy Farley |
| 1929 | Divorce Made Easy | Aunt Emma | |
| 1929 | Why Leave Home? | Susan | |
| 1930 | Harmony at Home | The Modiste | |
| 1930 | The Unholy Three | Woman Buying Parrot | uncredited |
| 1930 | Road to Paradise | Lola | |
| 1930 | The Little Accident | Mrs.Van Dine | |
| 1930 | The Third Alarm | Woman Barber | |
| 1931 | The Front Page | Madame | uncredited |
| 1931 | A Woman of Experience | Beer Garden Patron | uncredited |
| 1931 | Dancing Dynamite | Effie | |
| 1931 | The Law of the Tong | Madam Duval | |
| 1932 | While Paris Sleeps | Concierge | |
| 1932 | Trapped in Tia Juana | Aunt Emma | |
| 1932 | Lawyer Man | Client Paying $5,000 Fee | uncredited |
| 1933 | Curtain at Eight | Alice | |
| 1934 | Love Past Thirty | Dressmaker | |
| 1934 | Down to Their Last Yacht | Passenger with Diamond Bracelets | uncredited |
| 1935 | Diamond Jim | Barmaid | uncredited |
| 1935 | False Pretenses | Mrs. Smythe | |
| 1936 | Ring Around the Moon | Bella | |
| 1936 | Dummy Ache | Florence's Mother | Short film |
| 1936 | Wanted! Jane Turner | Landlady | uncredited |
| 1936 | Arizona Mahoney | Woman at Circus | uncredited |
| 1937 | Love Is News | Woman Wanting Steve's Autograph | uncredited |
| 1937 | We Have Our Moments | uncredited | |
| 1937 | Too Many Wives | Mrs. Potts | |
| 1937 | Rustlers' Valley | Mrs. Anson | uncredited |
| 1938 | The Purple Vigilantes | Suffrogate | uncredited |
| 1938 | The Road to Reno | Mrs. Brumleigh | credited as Dorothy Farley |
| 1938 | The Stranger from Arizona | Martha | |
| 1938 | Slander House | Mrs. Willis | |
| 1938 | Lawless Valley | Anna Marsh | |
| 1939 | I Stole a Million | uncredited | |
| 1939 | The Women | Large Woman | uncredited |
| 1939 | $1,000 a Touchdown | Hysterical Woman | uncredited |
| 1941 | We Go Fast | Hempstead's Cook | uncredited |
| 1941 | Look Who's Laughing | Mrs. Mary Blaize | uncredited |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | Bird Lover | uncredited |
| 1942 | Tales of Manhattan | Party Guest (Fields sequence) | uncredited |
| 1942 | Cat People | Mrs. Agnew | uncredited |
| 1943 | Hers to Hold | Wife of Soldier | uncredited |
| 1944 | Hail the Conquering Hero | Mamie's Mother | uncredited |
| 1944 | San Fernando Valley | Hattie O'Toole | |
| 1947 | The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Smoke's Secretary | uncredited |
| 1947 | They Won't Believe Me | Emma | uncredited |
| 1948 | Fighting Father Dunne | Mrs. Flaherty | uncredited |
| 1949 | The File on Thelma Jordon | Prisoner | uncredited |
References
- ^ a b Willis, Richard (November 1914). "Dot Farley: Comedienne, Tragedienne and Photoplaywright". Photoplay Magazine: 139–141. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
- ^ a b c Boggs, Johnny D. (2014). Jesse James and the Movies. McFarland. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7864-8496-6. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
- ^ a b Cassara, Bill. Edgar Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn. BearManor Media. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
- ^ Walker, Brent E. (2013). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland. p. 501. ISBN 978-0-7864-7711-1. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
- ^ "Dot Farley Is Successful Writer". The Perry Journal. Oklahoma, Perry. April 24, 1924. p. 7. Retrieved July 24, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Women Film Pioneers Project: Dot Farley". columbia.edu. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
- ^ a b c d e f g "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 11, 2026.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dot Farley.
- Works by or about Dot Farley at the Internet Archive
- Dot Farley at IMDb
- Dot Farley Archived August 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine at Women Film Pioneers Project