Dorothy Hart
Biography
Dorothy Hart was an American actress who worked mainly in supporting roles. Born in Cleveland, she attended Denison University and graduated from Case Western Reserve University, then gained experience at the Cleveland Play House before deciding on a singing career. In 1944 she won a Columbia Pictures cover girl contest, which brought a modeling contract and a screen test. She signed with Columbia in 1946, and her first major break came in the Western Gunfighters (1947) opposite Randolph Scott. She played Howard Duff's fiancée in The Naked City (1948), the bad girl in Undertow (1949), and a Communist schoolteacher in I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951). She was the tenth actress to play Jane, opposite Lex Barker in Tarzan's Savage Fury. She left acting in 1952.
82years old at death
- Born Cleveland
- Died Asheville
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 5 years1947 to 1952
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A first
Dorothy Hart became the tenth actress to play Jane, appearing with Lex Barker as Tarzan in Tarzan's Savage Fury in 1952.
Big break
Hart won Columbia Pictures' National Cinderella Cover Girl Contest in 1944, and the studio paid for her trip and gave her a screen test for Tonight and Every Night as the prize.
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Rock Hudson's page
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Bobby Barber's page
Steven Geray's page
John Hoyt's page
James Gleason's page
All films by Jules Dassin
Alexander HallDirector, 1 film, 1947
All films by Alexander Hall
All films by William Castle
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