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7-31: Cast in Tea For Three. 8-23: Friends announce Dorothy's engagement to Clarence Brown. 9-27: Isle of Forgotten Women released. Sept: One of the first to try new Hollywood makeup to help in filming. 10-2: Denies engagement to Clarence Brown & large diamond gone from finger. 10-29: Tea For Three released.
Stars. Film: North side of the 6600 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Actress Born April 26, 1903 in Birmingham, Ala. Died April 8, 1957 in Motion Picture and Television Country House, CA. D orothy Sebastian's film career as a siren spanned 15 years of silent and talking pictures. She came to Hollywood in 1924 after appearing in George White's ...
D orothy Sebastian's film career as a siren spanned 15 years of silent and talking pictures. She came to Hollywood in 1924 after appearing in George White's "Scandals" on the stage. Her first picture was "Sackcloth and Scarlet" and other silent films included "Winds of Chance," 1925; "The Show," "The Demi-Bride," "Love" and "The Gallant Gringo," 1927 and "Our Dancing Daughters," 1928.
Dorothy's maternal grandparents had been missionaries in China, Turkey, Persia and Korea. Her grandfather founded the first Presbyterian church in Alabama. "Religion is closely related to the drama. And preaching is related to acting. They both require the same flair. My grandfather and grandmother were missionaries in China. When I was a kid,
From the chorus ranks of Broadway's George White's Scandals, Alabama-born Dorothy Sebastian was recruited for films in 1925. The high point of her brief starring career came when she was teamed with Joan Crawford and Anita Page for a popular series of MGM romantic dramas, released on both sides of the talkie revolution: Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Our Modern Maidens (1929) and Our Blushing ...
Added: Oct 10, 2003. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 7969559. Source citation. Actress. She was an actress in the American film industry. Born Stella Dorothy Sabiston, she fled Alabama to New York after her parents disapproved of her plans to be a dancer and actress. Her father was a pastor of a church and her paternal grandparents were missionaries ...
On August 27, 1946 Dorothy Sebastian became Dorothy Sebastian Shapiro after she married Herman Shapiro. They remained together until her death from colon cancer in 1957.
