Dorothy Arlene Dodd Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
She was born Dorothy Anne Dodd on December 29, 1908, in Des Moines, Iowa while her mother was on a trip. This did not appeal to her Southern pride so she said she was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she was actually raised. Her father was a doctor who abandoned her and her mother before she was ten years old. Her mother suffered from ...
Jon Michael Strauss, Austene Cooper, Peter Cooper, Brand Cooper, John Cooper
Parents
Walter W. Dodd, Ethel V. Dodd
Movies
Footlight Parade, The Case of the Curious Bride, Roberta, The Glass Key, The Case of the Velvet Claws, Smarty, The Match King, Ex-Lady, The Black Cat, Parachute Jumper, Charlie Chan in Honolulu, Secret of the Chateau, Hard to Handle, Ann Carver's Profession, I Sell Anything, The Mad Doctor of Market...
Star Sign
Capricorn
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I did almost nothing much for a year. Publicity [photographs, greeting exhibitor's parties, dancing group scenes, odds and ends . . . Any extra could have done what I was assigned, and yet I was receiving a very decent salary check regularly. -- CD, describing her early film career with Paramount Pictures
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Fact
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Was left-handed.
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First signed by Paramount in 1931, she appeared mainly in unbilled bits. She moved to Warner Bros in 1933 and appeared in featured and second lead "bad girl" "B" roles as conniving, predatory "other women" and husband stealers. From 1936 to her retirement in 1942 she freelanced with major and "Poverty Row" studios.
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Battled cancer for two years before she died. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills and burial was in Glendale.
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Married second husband, H. Brand Cooper, an automobile distributor, in 1940. They had four children: Daughter Austene and sons Brand and John (twins) and Peter.
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Was of Dutch descent.
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She and her second husband purchased Rock Candy Farm, where they built a red New England style farm house on 400 acres. In the opening credits of "The Andy Griffith Show," where Opie throws a rock into a lake -- that sequence was filmed in a neighboring yard.
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Darryl F. Zanuck became her mentor throughout her little more than a decade film career. She did not play the "casting couch" came and he respected her and her talent for it.
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Made her Broadway debut in the 1930 musical "Smiles" starring Marilyn Miller.
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Before her acting career got off the ground, she was a model in Burlingame, California. Spotted by a talent agent, she was brought to Hollywood for a screen test and was given the name "Claire Dodd" and cast as a "Goldwyn Girl" in the Eddie Cantor musical Whoopee! (1930).
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The only child of a Little Rock, Arkansas couple -- Walter W. Dodd, a veterinarian, and Ethel (ne Cool) Dodd, the daughter of a postmaster. Ethel bore Claire while on a trip to Des Moines, Iowa. Her father abandoned the family when she was about 10 years old and her mother later developed tuberculosis. Dorothy quit school to help support her and her mother.
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Upon her death, her remains were interred at Brand Family Cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles, California.
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Was a former showgirl in the "Ziegfeld Follies" revues on Broadway.
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Sister-in-Law of famed big game hunter, author and marksman, John Dean "Jeff" Cooper, founder of Gunsite.
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Her first husband, John Milton Strauss, was a New York real estate developer. They had one son, Jon Michael (b. 1936).
$1.5 Million
