Highest rated movie: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Lowest rated movie: The Broadway Melody (1929)
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Movies starring Dorothy Coonan Wellman have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Gold Diggers of 1933 - released in 1933 - is Dorothy Coonan Wellman's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 79 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dorothy Coonan Wellman is The Broadway Melody - released in 1929 - with a score of 48% based on 107 reviews.
Dorothy Coonan Wellman (November 25, 1913 - September 16, 2009) was an American actress and dancer. Wellman was the widow of film director William Wellman, to whom she was married from 1934 until his death in 1975. Wellman cast her in several of his films. Her career as a dancer began at the age of 14 with Warner Brothers Studios. Her early film credits as an on-screen dancer and actress included small, uncredited parts in such early talkies as The Broadway Melody (1929), Whoopee! (1930), Kiki (1931) Palmy Days (1931), and The Kid from Spain (1932). Her best-known films were 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933. Many of the films in which she appeared were choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
Film director William Wellman cast Coonan as "Sally" in his 1933 film, Wild Boys of the Road. This was the only role she played in which she was credited or had a character with a name. She makes an uncredited appearance in Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) as an army nurse nicknamed Red who marries a soldier on the battlefield, only to be widowed shortly afterwards.
Dorothy Coonan Wellman has acted in films with Ann Hovey, Loretta Andrews, Charles Lane and Sterling Holloway.
Dorothy Coonan Wellman has worked with these film directors: Thornton Freeland, Leo McCarey, Lloyd Bacon and Mervyn LeRoy.
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