Dorothy Steel
Dorothy Steel was born on February 23, 1926 in Flint, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). She was previously married to Warren Wardell . She died on October 15, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Dorothy Stratten
Dorothy Stratten's story was brief, glorious and tragic. She was born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten on February 28, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She grew up in a rough neighborhood in Vancouver, but kept out of trouble and went through the motions of school. While not a beauty as a child, nor early teen, Stratten came into her own out of high school and attracted the attention of Paul Snider, a promoter and wannabe star. He started dating her and after seeing an advertisement for Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate search in 1978, convinced her to pose for photos. Playboy saw the potential in Stratten and flew her out to Los Angeles, California, where she became a candidate. Although she lost out to Candy Loving, Stratten was made a Playmate in the August 1979 issue of Playboy. Soon after, she was pressured into marrying Snider, who had a Svengali-like influence on her. After her centerfold came out, Stratten found work in a few movies, notably Americathon (1979) and Skatetown USA (1979), as well as being the object of Richard Dawson's affection in an ABC-TV special shot at the Playboy mansion. Clearly, her star was on the rise. In 1980, it was revealed that Stratten would be tabbed as the Playmate of the Year by Playboy publisher and founder Hugh Hefner. While this was one of the crowning achievements of her career, things were not going well in her marriage to Snider. He bothered her on the set of the movie Galaxina (1980) and when Snider found out she was developing more than a friendly relationship with director Peter Bogdanovich, Snider grew increasingly frustrated. After a separation, Snider bought a shotgun and talked Stratten into coming to the apartment they used to share in West Los Angeles. Snider tied her up, sexually assaulted her and put the shotgun next to her face and pulled the trigger. Snider then turned the shotgun on himself to complete the murder-suicide. Since her death, Stratten has become something of a minor cult fixture, and has had two (one a television) movies, a song, and a couple of books written about her. The last movie she was in, They All Laughed (1981), was released after her death.
Dorothy Sutcliffe
Dorothy Sutcliffe is an actress, known for Rams (2020).
Dorothy Tchelistcheff
Dorothy Tchelistcheff is an actress, known for Twixt (2011) and André (2017).
Dorothy Tree
After a long career on stage and film, in New York and Hollywood, Dorothy Tree, as Dorothy Uris, had a second career, as a speech and voice coach at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, privately, and teaching speech and acting at the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. She was the author of "Everybody's Book of Better Speaking", "A Woman's Voice" and "To Sing in English", a classic text still in print and still used by teachers of speech and voice.
Dorothy Vaughan
If Dorothy Vaughan appeared in 143 movies or episodes of TV series, it was certainly not by accident. Actually the reason why this lively stout lady was in such demand is that she was the spitting image of the woman next door, of the hospital nurse who took care of your son after he broke his arm falling off his bike, of the midwife who helped your wife to give birth to that wonderful baby boy ... whose girlfriend you dislike so much now that he is almost grown up. Dorothy Vaughan was everybody's ma, John Doe's Granny, your boss's charwoman. There can be no other reasons why she was in so many films in so little time. Of course her roles were often brief, just like when you come across an ordinary person you barely notice in everyday life. But she could occasionally get more meaty roles, like in "Trail to San Antone" (1947) in which she portrayed the bossy 'Commodore' with obvious relish.
Dorothy Wang
Dorothy Wang, 25 and worth $10 million, is the daughter of Roger Wang, a billionaire mogul, and CEO of Golden Eagle International Group, which specializes in real estate development, clothing and auto repair. The self-described "funemployed" girl gained fame posting selfies on #richkidsofinstagram. She lives in Beverly Hills, where she attends lavish costume parties and shopping and is looking into real estate with her father's company.
Dorothy Wear Walker Bush
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Dorothy Weems
Dorothy Weems is an actress, known for The Atoning (2017), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Absence of the Heart (2016).
Dorothy Wilson
This quiet, dark-haired beauty began her brief 30s career promoted as the "secretary to the stars." Dorothy Wilson started life out in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 14, 1909, born to non-professionals. She herself demonstrated little interest in an acting career growing up. Following graduation she took various secretarial jobs in the Chicago area before moving to Los Angeles in 1930, triggered by her keen interests in traveling and experiencing new places. Signing up with a number of employment agencies, she was eventually hired by RKO Pictures and worked at the studio as a secretary for two years. Taking dictation for director Gregory La Cava as part of her many assignments at RKO, LaCava, who was preparing to cast his upcoming film The Age of Consent (1932), took note of this lovely, highly photogenic "Girl Friday" and set her up for a screen test. Surprisingly, she won one of the two co-ed lead parts (the other was Arline Judge) and set down her writing pad for good. She received fine reviews opposite Richard Cromwell for her pre-Code co-starring role as a college cutie looking for romance. Dubbed a "Wampas Baby Star" of 1932, Dorothy went on to provide standard romantic interest in such films as Lucky Devils (1933), Before Dawn (1933), Scarlet River (1933), His Greatest Gamble (1934), When a Man's a Man (1935), In Old Kentucky (1935), Bad Boy (1935) and The Milky Way (1936) opposite such vast and varied leading men as Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong, Stuart Erwin, Preston Foster, Richard Dix Tom Keene, Will Rogers, Harold Lloyd and James Dunn. While making the film 8 Girls in a Boat (1934), Dorothy began dating the movie's scriptwriter Lewis R. Foster. The couple married in 1936. After filming Craig's Wife (1936), and Speed to Spare (1937), Dorothy abandoned her career to devote herself to husband and family. They moved to a California ranch in Reseda and went on to have two sons. Other than an unbilled bit in Whistling in Brooklyn (1943), Dorothy never even entertained the idea of returning to acting. Her husband, however, continued in the business and became an inspired composer and songwriter in addition to being a steadfast writer/director. He won an Oscar for his script of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Foster died in 1974 and Dorothy lived on for another two decades plus, passing away at age 88 in California in 1998.