Dennie Moore

Dennie Moore was an American actress who worked on both the stage and the screen. Born in New York City and raised in Hell's Kitchen, she adopted Dennie Moore as her professional name because an actress named Florence Moore was already using that billing, and she began appearing on Broadway in 1927. In 1935 she arrived in Hollywood and took an uncredited but sizable part in Sylvia Scarlett (1935). Working freelance between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros., she made twenty-two films in a career that ran from 1935 to 1951, among them The Women (1939), Saturday's Children (1940) and Dive Bomber (1941). By the mid-1940s she was getting more stage offers in New York than film work, and her last screen appearance came in The Model and the Marriage Broker in 1951. She later originated the part of Mrs. Van Daan in the Broadway staging of The Diary of Anne Frank, and retired from acting in 1957.