Dorothy Morris

Dorothy Morris was an American film and television actress whose career centered on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she was signed in 1941 and became known for a girl next door quality. Raised in Hollywood, she trained at the Pasadena Playhouse and at Maria Ouspenskaya's School of Drama, then took bit parts in the studio's successful pictures. Her early credits included Cry Havoc and the well-received drama The Human Comedy (1943), in which she played Mary Arena, the girlfriend of Van Johnson's character. Her standout role came as Ingeborg Jensen in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and she also appeared in None Shall Escape (1944), Rationing, Pilot No. 5 and Someone to Remember. Work in MGM short subjects led to the feature Main Street After Dark in 1945. She returned to the screen in the late 1950s with Macabre (1958) and television guest roles, and her last film was Seconds (1966).