Dorothy Lee


Dorothy Lee

About

Birth Place
Los Angeles, California
Born
May 23, 1911
Died
June 24, 1999

Family & Companions

Robert Booth
Husband
Dancer. Married c. 1927; divorced c. 1929.
Fred Waring
Companion
Bandleader. Had long on-again, off-again relationship in the late 1920s and 30s.
Marshall Duffield
Husband
Married in 1933; divorced in 1935; was college football star at USC.
A G Atwater
Husband
Married c. 1936; divorced in 1939.

Biography

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Eat The Lipstick Fetching window model Daisy (Dorothy Lee) is getting no traction with cosmetic sales, with some neat shooting by director Mark Sandrich, when we meet stars Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey (“Dr. Dudley” and sidekick) stealing her audience, early in RKO’s Hips, Hips, Hooray!, 1934.
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Meet That Man And Merge Shady lipstick salesmen Dr. Dudley and Andy (the RKO comedy team, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) have hijacked an office hoping they, with ally Daisy (Dorothy Lee), can trick her better-financed boss (Thelma Todd as Miss Frisby) into a merger, in Hips, Hips, Hooray!, 1934.
Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Tried Perfume? Just the supporting ladies here, savvy Parisian Olga (Leni Stengel) is advising soldier-crazy Annette (Dorothy Lee), daughter of an American officer in WWI Paris, when her mother (Edna May Oliver) and sister (Roberta Robinson) happen by, in the RKO Wheeler & Woolsey comedy hit Half Shot At Sunrise, 1930.
Half Shot At Sunrise (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Whistling The Blues Away Frisky daughter of an American colonel in WWI Paris, Dorothy Lee as Annette has just met AWOL private Tommy (Bert Wheeler), leading to an original, music by Harry Tierney and lyrics by Anne Caldwell, the co-screenwriter and famed librettist, in the RKO Wheeler & Woolsey comedy, Half Shot At Sunrise, 1930.
Rainmakers, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Did I Get Any On You? Comics Wheeler and Woolsey are new partners, as ex-farmer Billy and flop rainmaker Roscoe, arriving in a California town where big-shot Parker (Berton Churchill) plans to fleece the locals, and Margie (Dorothy Lee) works with her benevolent banker dad (George Meeker), in The Rainmakers, 1935.
Cracked Nuts (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Venus De Milo Arms Opening scene, Wendell (Bert Wheeler) attempting to visit Betty (Dorothy Lee), who's being harangued by Aunt Minnie (Edna May Oliver), from the 6th Wheeler & Woolsey comedy, Cracked Nuts, 1931.

Companions

Robert Booth
Husband
Dancer. Married c. 1927; divorced c. 1929.
Fred Waring
Companion
Bandleader. Had long on-again, off-again relationship in the late 1920s and 30s.
Marshall Duffield
Husband
Married in 1933; divorced in 1935; was college football star at USC.
A G Atwater
Husband
Married c. 1936; divorced in 1939.
John Bersbach
Husband
Businessman. Married on December 9, 1941; had four children together; divorced.
Charles Calderini
Husband
Attorney. Married in the 1960s.

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