Dorothy Dwan

About

Birth Place

Sedalia, Missouri

Born

April 26, 1906

Died

March 17, 1981

Cause of Death

Lung Cancer

Filmography

The Fighting Legion (1930)

Molly Williams

The California Mail (1929)

Molly Butler

The Drifter (1929)

Ruth Martin

The Peacock Fan (1929)

Peggy Kendall

Square Crooks (1928)

Jane Brown

Out With the Tide (1928)

Joan Renshaw

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Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Townsfolk Of Oz

Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) There Once Bloomed A Rose

Family & Companions

Larry Semon

Husband

Actor, director, screenwriter. Married from January 25, 1925 until his death on October 8, 1928.

Paul Northcutt Boggs Jr

Husband

Oil executive. Married on May 23, 1930; divorced on December 3, 1935.

Fred Buckels

Husband

Divorced.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Fighting Legion (1930)

Molly Williams

The California Mail (1929)

Molly Butler

The Drifter (1929)

Ruth Martin

The Peacock Fan (1929)

Peggy Kendall

Square Crooks (1928)

Jane Brown

Out With the Tide (1928)

Joan Renshaw

Obey Your Husband (1928)

Joyce Kennedy

Riders of the Dark (1928)

Molly Graham

Hills of Kentucky (1927)

Janet

The Princess on Broadway (1927)

Rose Ryan

Spuds (1927)

Madelon

The Land Beyond the Law (1927)

Ginger O'Hara

Tumbling River (1927)

Edna Barton

Silver Valley (1927)

Sheila Blaine

McFadden's Flats (1927)

Edith Halloran

The Dangerous Dude (1926)

Janet Jordan

The Call of the Klondike (1926)

Violet Kenney

Perils of the Coast Guard (1926)

Natalie

Stop, Look, and Listen (1926)

Dorothy

The Canyon of Light (1926)

Concha Deane

The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)

Madge Cullen

A Captain's Courage (1926)

The Perfect Clown (1925)

The girl

The Wizard of Oz (1925)

Dorothy

Bashful Buccaneer (1925)

Nancy Lee

The Breed of the Border (1924)

Ethel Slocum

Sinners in Silk (1924)

Rita

The Silent Vow (1922)

Ethel

Life Events

Videos

Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Townsfolk Of Oz Opening and scarcely resembling the 1939 approach or the novel, director and star Larry Semon comments, then appears un-credited as the toymaker, introducing the story device with grand-daughter Jean Johnston, and in Oz, Josef Swickard, Virginia Pearson and Otto Lederer, all unfamiliar characters, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1925.

Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) There Once Bloomed A Rose Director and star Larry Semon as the toymaker is reading the famed novel to his unhappy granddaughter, who prefers he jump to Kansas, thus we meet Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Aunty Em and Uncle Henry (Mary Carr, Frank Alexander) then Oliver Hardy as a farmhand and suitor (and later the Tin Woodsman), in The Wizard Of Oz, 1925.

Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Thoughts Of Lollypops Again in Kansas, fuller exposition regarding the two nameless farmhands (director Larry Semon, and Oliver Hardy) who are both suitors to Dorothy (Dorothy Dwan), and who will later appear as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman, though they’re only disguises, not characters, in Semon’s off-beat 1925 silent, The Wizard Of Oz.

Wizard Of Oz, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) You Doubt My Powers? Now in Oz and in trouble with unsympathetic authorities, the Wizard (Charles Murray), who freely admits he’s only a mortal huckster, hopes to demonstrate his value by his fake transformation of two Kansas farmhands, director Larry Semon as the Scarecrow, and Oliver Hardy the Tin Woodsman, in The Wizard Of Oz, 1925.

Family

Melvin Illgenfritz

Father

Nancy Wallace

Mother

Paul Boggs

Son

Born on November 22, 1931.

Companions

Larry Semon

Husband

Actor, director, screenwriter. Married from January 25, 1925 until his death on October 8, 1928.

Paul Northcutt Boggs Jr

Husband

Oil executive. Married on May 23, 1930; divorced on December 3, 1935.

Fred Buckels

Husband

Divorced.

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