Dolores Dorn

Dolores Dorn was a Chicago-born film and television actress who graduated from the Goodman Art Theatre and whose screen work ran through 1985. In her early career she performed in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri with a troupe, the Shaffner Players, and she was billed on Broadway as Dolores Dorn-Heft, appearing there in Hide and Seek in 1957 and in Between Two Thieves off Broadway. She had second billing opposite Randolph Scott in the Western The Bounty Hunter (1954) and was a co-star of Uncle Vanya (1957). Her film roles included Cuddles, the moll of a prisoner played by Cliff Robertson, in Underworld U.S.A. (1961), and she appeared in 13 West Street, Alan Ladd's last Hollywood film as a leading man. She also appeared in made-for-television movies and as a guest star in series, and from 1977 she taught acting at the American Film Institute, later at the Lee Strasberg Institute.