Dorothy Stickney
Biography
Dorothy Stickney was an American stage, film, and television actress known especially for Life with Father, the long-running Broadway hit. Born in Dickinson, North Dakota, she trained at the North Western Dramatic School in Minneapolis and made her professional debut in vaudeville in 1921. She reached Broadway in 1926 with The Squall and became known for eccentric characters, including Liz the scrubwoman in the original nonmusical Chicago and Mollie Molloy in The Front Page. Her later Broadway credits included Another Language and On Borrowed Time. In 1940 she received the Barter Theatre Award as Vinnie in Life with Father. On television she played the Queen in the 1957 Cinderella and Aunt Abby in a 1962 Arsenic and Old Lace, and she originated Emily Baldwin in The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971). Late in her career she took over the role of Berthe in the original Broadway production of Pippin.
101years old at death
- Born Dickinson
- Died New York City
- Star sign: CancerFirst day of the sign, on the Gemini cusp
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 40 years1931 to 1971
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First role
Stickney's professional stage debut came in May 1921 in Minot, North Dakota, where she sang and danced in vaudeville as one of the four Southern Belles.
Beyond film
Stickney debuted her one-woman show A Lovely Light at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, on September 22, 1958, using poems and letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Behind the camera
Stickney wrote the memoir Openings and Closings, published by Doubleday in 1979, which chronicled her long career and her secret battle with stage fright.
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Best known for
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Worked with
Dorothy Stickney shares two films with Donald Crisp, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Gene Hackman's page
Ernest Borgnine's page
Bette Davis's page
Ellen Corby's page
Ray Milland's page
Lewis AllenDirector, 1 film, 1944
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Gilbert CatesDirector, 1 film, 1970
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