[2][3] Christy was born Dorothea J. Seltzer[4] on May 26, 1906,[citation needed] in Reading, Pennsylvania.

[3] On Broadway, Christy was a member of the ensemble of The New Moon (1928) and portrayed Olive in Follow Thru (1929).

[7] Christy acted with Will Rogers, Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers (appearing in the pre-filming stage version of A Night at the Opera) and with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the film Sons of the Desert (1933), in the role of Mrs. Laurel.

She was Queen Tika of Murania in The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry’s 1935 cliffhanger serial.

[4] Christy died of natural causes five days shy of her 71st birthday.