Name
Dorothy Sebastian
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1903-04-26
Deathday
1957-04-08 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia
Dorothy Sebastian (April 26, 1903 – April 8, 1957) was an American film and stage actress.
Sebastian was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In her youth, she aspired to be a dancer and a film actress. Her family frowned on both ambitions, however, so she fled to New York at the age of 15. Upon her arrival in New York City, Sebastian's southern drawl was thick enough to "cut with a knife". She followed around theatrical agents before returning at night to a $12-a-month room, after being consistently rejected.
Sebastian's first contact in Hollywood was Robert Kane, who gave her a film test at United Studios. She performed in George White's Scandals and later co-starred with Joan Crawford and Anita Page for a popular series of MGM romantic dramas including Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and Our Blushing Brides (1930). Sebastian also appeared in 1929's Spite Marriage, wherein she was cast opposite her then-lover Buster Keaton.
By the mid-1930s, Sebastian was semi-retired from acting after marrying Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd. After their 1936 divorce, she returned to acting appearing in mostly bit parts. Her last onscreen appearance was in the 1948 film The Miracle of the Bells.
Sebastian married actor William Boyd in December 1930 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They began a relationship after meeting on the set of His First Command in 1929. They divorced in 1936.
In 1947, Sebastian married Miami Beach businessman Harold Shapiro to whom she remained married until her death.
On April 8, 1957, Sebastian died of cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Dorothy Sebastian has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6655 Hollywood Blvd.
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- 1928 Show People as Self (uncredited)
- 1939 Rough Riders' Round-up as Rose
- 1929 The Devil's Apple Tree as Dorothy Ryan
- 1930 Hell's Island as Marie
- 1927 The Arizona Wildcat as Regina Schyler
- 1928 Our Dancing Daughters as Beatrice 'Bea'
- 1930 Free and Easy as Cave Scene
- 1931 The Big Gamble as Beverly Ames Beckwith
- 1927 The Demi-Bride as Lola
- 1930 Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 as Dorothy Sebastian
- 1929 Spite Marriage as Trilby Drew
- 1934 Allez Oop as Paula Stevens
- 1929 The Single Standard as Mercedes
- 1930 Montana Moon as Elizabeth
- 1939 The Arizona Kid as Bess Warren
- 1930 Our Blushing Brides as Francine 'Franky' Daniels
- 1929 The Unholy Night as Lady Efra
- 1932 They Never Come Back as Adele Landon
- 1925 Winds of Chance as Laura
- 1937 The Mysterious Pilot as Jean McNain
- 1939 The Women as Saleswoman Pat (uncredited)
- 1941 Among the Living as Woman in Cafe
- 1930 Officer O'Brien as Ruth Dale
- 1931 The Wide Open Spaces as Rose
- 1927 The Show as Salvation Army Worker (uncredited)
- 1928 A Woman of Affairs as Constance
- 1930 The Utah Kid as Jennie Lee
- 1939 Days of Jesse James as Zerilda James (uncredited)
- 1933 Ship of Wanted Men as Irene Reynolds
- 1927 Twelve Miles Out as Chiquita
- 1926 You'd Be Surprised as Dorothy
- 1930 The Rounder as Ethel Dalton
- 1928 The Adventurer as Dolores de Silva
- 1929 His First Command as Judy Gaylord
- 1925 Sackcloth and Scarlet as Polly Freeman
- 1931 Ships of Hate as Grace Walsh
- 1927 Love as Spectator at Race (uncredited)
- 1941 Kansas Cyclone as Helen King
- 1948 The Miracle of the Bells as Miss Katie Orwin (uncredited)
- 1934 The Life of Vergie Winters as Lulu
- 1925 Why Women Love as Pearl
- 1929 Morgan's Last Raid as Judith Rogers
- 1926 Bluebeard's Seven Wives as Gilda La Bray
- 1929 The Spirit of Youth as Betty Grant
- 1927 California as Carlotta del Rey
- 1932 Contrabando
- 1927 On Ze Boulevard as Gaby de Sylva
- 1930 Brothers as Norma Moore
- 1931 The Deceiver as Ina Fontanne
- 1927 The Haunted Ship as Goldie Kane
- 1926 Beauty à la Mud
- 1926 Torrent as Woman in Audience (uncredited)
- 1927 Tea For Three as Annette
- 1928 Wyoming as Samantrha Jerusha Farrell
- 1934 No Sleep on the Deep as June Davis
- 1927 The Isle of Forgotten Women as Marua
- 1930 Ladies Must Play as Norma
- 1931 The Lightning Flyer as Rose Rogers
- 1928 The House of Scandal as Ann Rourke
- 1928 Their Hour as Cora
- 1929 The Rainbow as Lola
