By Vlad Zakh · August 5, 2026
Dorothy Granger was a beloved fixture of Hollywood comedy shorts and features and frequently appeared alongside Laurel and Hardy through the 1930s and beyond. Show Boat shapes a riverboat performer’s life with love and scandal, The Southerner struggles against nature and poverty on a tenant farm, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty collides a daydreamer’s fantasies with real adventure, and Westward the Women crosses the frontier with mail-order brides. The Merry Widow and Hog Wild round out the list.
01 Dorothy Granger features in this western about a wagon train of mail-order brides who endure a gruelling journey across the frontier to California.
Directed by William A. Wellman · 1h 58m · Rated NR
Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
02 Dorothy Granger features in this Danny Kaye comedy about a daydreaming magazine editor whose vivid fantasies collide with a real-life adventure involving spies and danger.
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod · 1h 50m · Rated NR
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Amazon Video
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
03 Dorothy Granger features in this drama about a poor tenant farmer who struggles against nature and poverty to build a better life for his family.
Directed by Jean Renoir · 1h 32m
Stream: Brew, MGM Plus, IndieFlix, Artiflix · Rent or buy: Fandango At Home
Stream: Artiflix, Brew
Stream: Artiflix, Brew
Stream: Artiflix, Brew
Stream: Artiflix, Brew
04 A riverboat captain's daughter falls for a charming gambler as their travelling showboat troupe faces change.
Directed by James Whale · 1h 53m · Rated NR
Stream: YouTube TV
05 Dorothy Granger features in this Lubitsch musical about a wealthy widow whose fortune draws the attention of a prince tasked with wooing her to save his kingdom's treasury.
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 1h 39m · Rated NR
Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
Rent or buy: Apple TV Store
Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
06 Dorothy Granger appears in this Laurel and Hardy short about a henpecked husband whose attempt to install a radio aerial spirals into a chaotic, destructive misadventure.
Directed by James Parrott · 0h 19m · Rated NR
Buy: Apple TV Store
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