Dorothy Morris(1922-2011)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
This young, pleasant actress was under contract to MGM during the war
years. Dorothy Morris was groomed by the studio starting in 1941 and
for the first couple of years barely earned a screen credit. She rose
gradually in the ranks to secondary ingenue roles as the daughter or
friend of the star. She was pretty, delicate-looking and fairly demure
along the lines of a Barbara Bates or Cathy O'Donnell, and was probably
best featured in such films as Someone to Remember (1943), The Human Comedy (1943), Rationing (1944), and None Shall Escape (1944). Dorothy
willingly gave up her modest career when she married a math instructor
in 1943. The marriage, which produced two sons, lasted 23 years before
it ended. She returned to her acting craft in the late 50s and appeared
in minor roles on TV, as well as two films Macabre (1958), the William
Castle 'shocker' and Seconds (1966) starring Rock Hudson. A second
marriage to a minister took her, again, away from the camera lights and
this time it was permanent, save for some amateur theatricals. Her
sister, Caren Marsh, was an MGM dancer who also was Judy Garland's
frequent stand-in.
