Dorothy Lyman
Dorothy Lyman was born on April 18, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress and director, known for All My Children (1970), Blow (2001) and Mama's Family (1983). She was previously married to Vincent Malle and John Tillinger.
Dorothy Malone
The blonde, sultry, dreamy-eyed beauty of Dorothy Malone, who was born Mary Maloney in Chicago on January 29, 1924, took some time before it made an impact with American film-going audiences. But once she did, she played it for all it was worth in her one chance Academy Award-winning "bad girl" performance, a role quite unlike the classy and strait-laced lady herself. Raised in Dallas, she was one of five children born to an accountant father and housewife mother. Two older sisters died of polio. Attending Ursuline Convent and Highland Park High School, she was quite popular (as "School Favorite"). She was also a noted female athlete while there and won several awards for swimming and horseback riding. Following graduation, she studied at Southern Methodist University with the intent of becoming a nurse, but a role in the college play "Starbound" happened to catch the eye of an RKO talent scout and she was offered a Hollywood contract. The lovely brunette started off in typical RKO starlet mode with acting/singing/dancing/diction lessons and bit parts (billed as Dorothy Maloney) in such films as the Frank Sinatra musicals Higher and Higher (1943) and Step Lively (1944), a couple of the mystery "Falcon" entries and a showier role in Show Business (1944) with Eddie Cantor and George Murphy. RKO lost interest, however, after the two-year contract was up. Warner Bros., however, stepped up to the plate and offered the actress a contract. Now billed as Dorothy Malone, her third film offering with the studio finally injected some adrenaline into her floundering young career, when she earned the small role of a seductive book clerk in the Bogart/Bacall classic The Big Sleep (1946). Critics and audiences took notice of her captivating little part. As a reward, the studio nudged her up the billing ladder with more visible roles in Two Guys from Texas (1948), Romance on the High Seas (1948), South of St. Louis (1949) and Colorado Territory (1949), with the westerns showing off her equestrian prowess if not her acting ability. Despite this positive movement, Warner Bros. did not extend Dorothy's contract in 1949 and she returned willingly back to her tight-knit family in her native Dallas. Taking a steadier job with an insurance agency, she happened to attend a work-related convention in New York City and grew fascinated with the big city. Deciding to recommit to her acting career, she moved to the Big Apple and studied at the American Theater Wing. In between her studies, she managed to find work on TV, which spurred freelancing "B" movie offers in the routine form of Saddle Legion (1951), The Bushwhackers (1951), the Martin & Lewis romp Scared Stiff (1953), Law and Order (1953), Jack Slade (1953), Pushover (1954) and Private Hell 36 (1954). Things picked up noticeably once Dorothy went platinum blonde, which seemed to emphasize her overt and sensual beauty. First off was as a sister to Doris Day in Young at Heart (1954), a musical remake of Four Daughters (1938), back at Warner Bros. She garnered even better attention when she appeared in the war picture Battle Cry (1955), in which she shared torrid love scenes with film's newest heartthrob Tab Hunter, and continued the momentum with the reliable westerns Five Guns West (1955) and Tall Man Riding (1955) but not with melodramatic romantic dud Sincerely Yours (1955) which tried to sell to the audiences a heterosexual Liberace. By this time she had signed with Universal. Following a few more westerns for good measure (At Gunpoint (1955), Tension at Table Rock (1956) and Pillars of the Sky (1956), Dorothy won the scenery-chewing role of wild, nymphomaniac Marylee Hadley in the Douglas Sirk soap opera Written on the Wind (1956) co-starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack. Stack and Malone had the showier roles and completely out-shined the two leads, both earning supporting Oscar nominations in the process. Stack lost in his category but Dorothy nabbed the trophy for her splendidly tramp, boozed-up Southern belle which was highlighted by her writhing mambo dance. Unfortunately, Dorothy's long spell of mediocre filming did not end with all the hoopla she received for Written on the Wind (1956). The Tarnished Angels (1957), which reunited Malone with Hudson and Stack faltered, and Quantez (1957) with Fred MacMurray was just another run-of-the-mill western. Two major film challenges might have changed things with Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) as the unsympathetic first wife of James Cagney's Lon Chaney Sr, and as alcoholic actress Diana Barrymore in the biographic melodrama Too Much, Too Soon (1958). Cagney, however, overshadowed everyone in the first and the second was fatally watered down by the Production Code committee. To compensate, Dorothy, at age 35 in 1959, finally was married -- to playboy actor Jacques Bergerac ( Ginger Rogers's ex-husband). A daughter, Mimi, was born the following year. Fewer film offers, which included Warlock (1959) and The Last Voyage (1960), came her way as Dorothy focused more on family life. While a second daughter, Diane, was born in 1962, the turbulent marriage wouldn't last and their divorce became final in December 1964. A bitter custody battle ensued with Dorothy eventually winning primary custody. It took the small screen to rejuvenate Dorothy's career in the mid-1960s when she earned top billing of TV's first prime time soap opera Peyton Place (1964). Dorothy, starring in Lana Turner's 1957 film role of Constance MacKenzie, found herself in a smash hit. The run wasn't entirely happy however. Doctors discovered blood clots on her lungs which required major surgery and she almost died. Lola Albright filled in until she was able to return. Just as bad, her the significance of her role dwindled with time and 20th Century-Fox finally wrote her and co-star Tim O'Connor off the show in 1968. Dorothy filed a breach of contract lawsuit which ended in an out-of-court settlement. Her life on- and off-camera did not improve. Dorothy's second marriage to stockbroker Robert Tomarkin in 1969 would last only three months, and a third to businessman Charles Huston Bell managed about three years. Now-matronly roles in the films Winter Kills (1979), Vortex (1982), The Being (1981) and Descanse en piezas (1987), were few and far between a few TV-movies -- which included some "Peyton Place" revivals, did nothing to advance her. Malone returned and settled for good back in her native Dallas, returning to Hollywood only on occasion. Dorothy's last film was a cameo in the popular thriller Basic Instinct (1992) as a friend to Sharon Stone. She will be remembered as one of those Hollywood stars who proved she had the talent but somehow got the short end of the stick when it came to quality films offered. She retired to Texas and died in Dallas shortly before her 94th birthday on January 19, 2018.
Dorothy Mannine
Dorothy Mannine was born on July 18, 1996 in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. She trained at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is an actress known for Seal of Desire, Children of Night, Dhar Mann, The Bachelor Party, Missin' You, Slash, The Gate, Time Traveling in Bits and Pieces and Flashing Lights.
Dorothy McCallion
Dorothy McCallion is an actress, known for Good Grief It's Friday (2021).
Dorothy McKim
Dorothy McKim is a two-time Emmy® Award-winning, Oscar nominated producer who began her association with Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1984. During her tenure in animation, she worked in a variety of production capacities before being promoted to producer on the trio of award-winning "Prep & Landing" films ("Prep & Landing," "Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa," and "Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice"), and such recent animated shorts as "Tick Tock Tale" (2010), and "The Ballad of Nessie" (2011). She also served as producer on Disney's 2007 computer-animated feature, "Meet the Robinsons." McKim's most recent producing credit was on the innovative 2013 Mickey Mouse animated short, "Get A Horse!" which played in theaters with "Frozen," and went on to win an Annie Award, and receive an Oscar® nomination in the "Best Animated Short Film" category. McKim launched her career with The Walt Disney Studios in 1980 in the staffing department before moving into Editorial/Cutting for live-action programs on the Disney Channel. This was followed by a short stint in Publications. Moving on to Walt Disney Animation Studios, her first assignment was on the feature, "Oliver & Company" (1988). She subsequently worked as production manager, director of production, and co-producer on some of the Studio's landmark animated hits including "The Little Mermaid" (1989), "Beauty and the Beast" (1991), "The Lion King" (1994), and "Tarzan" (1999). From 2007 to 2010, McKim served as development producer for Walt Disney Animation Studios. In that role, she worked with all of the Studio's directors in developing their films. This also included overseeing the development of all animated short films for the division. McKim has won Primetime Emmy® Awards in the "Outstanding Animated Programs" categories for her work on "Prep & Landing" and "Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa." She has also been nominated for four VES Awards, and received one (for "Outstanding Visual Effects") for the 2009 animated television special, "Prep & Landing." The latter also earned her an Annie Award (for "Best Animated Television Production"). McKim grew up in Chatsworth, California, and attended Pierce College and West Valley College. She holds a business degree from the latter. She and her husband, Brian, live in Santa Clarita, California, and have a son, Tyler, and a daughter, Natalie. In her spare time, Dorothy works as an ice skating coach and loves to choreograph programs for the students she coaches.
Dorothy Meyers
Dorothy Meyers was born in the Garden State of Trenton, New Jersey and raised by a single father who is retired. She is the 10th child of 10 siblings. A graduate of Trenton Central High School. Made her Primetime debut as a Co-Star on FOX's Almost Family. She appeared as a Co-Host on FOX's Dr. Oz Show with Chef Roble. She also was cast as Harvette Williams, one of her 1st TV appearances in Stalked "The Harvette Williams Story". Also, starred as Kim worthy in The Real Story with MES. Starred as a mom in Pharell Williams Brainchild on Netflix.
Dorothy Miller
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Dorothy Morris
This young, pleasant actress was under contract to MGM during the war years. Dorothy Morris was groomed by the studio starting in 1941 and for the first couple of years barely earned a screen credit. She rose gradually in the ranks to secondary ingenue roles as the daughter or friend of the star. She was pretty, delicate-looking and fairly demure along the lines of a Barbara Bates or Cathy O'Donnell, and was probably best featured in such films as Someone to Remember (1943), The Human Comedy (1943), Rationing (1944), and None Shall Escape (1944). Dorothy willingly gave up her modest career when she married a math instructor in 1943. The marriage, which produced two sons, lasted 23 years before it ended. She returned to her acting craft in the late 50s and appeared in minor roles on TV, as well as two films Macabre (1958), the William Castle 'shocker' and Seconds (1966) starring Rock Hudson. A second marriage to a minister took her, again, away from the camera lights and this time it was permanent, save for some amateur theatricals. Her sister, Caren Marsh, was an MGM dancer who also was Judy Garland's frequent stand-in.
Dorothy Nelson
Dorothy Nelson is an actress, known for Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015).
Dorothy Neumann
Dorothy Neumann was born on January 26, 1914 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Undead (1957), The Ten Commandments (1956) and Hot Rod Gang (1958). She died on May 20, 1994 in Santa Monica, California, USA.