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- Birth nameDorothy Estelle Triebitz
- Height5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
- After a long career on stage and film, in New York and Hollywood, Dorothy Tree, as Dorothy Uris, had a second career, as a speech and voice coach at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, privately, and teaching speech and acting at the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. She was the author of "Everybody's Book of Better Speaking", "A Woman's Voice" and "To Sing in English", a classic text still in print and still used by teachers of speech and voice.
- IMDb mini biography by: Arthur Krieck
- SpouseMichael Uris(June 8, 1928 - July 17, 1967) (his death, 1 child)
- A founding member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
- Known for her feminist views, she believed women's rights were best served by "more resonance, clear speech and a better vocabulary." She was not a fan during the early 1960s of Jacqueline Kennedy's trademark timid and whispery voice. She strove to instruct women to adopt a more assertive, confident tone when speaking.
- Gave birth to her only child at age 37, a son named Joseph M. Uris, on October 25, 1943. Child's father is her now late husband, Michael Uris.
- Had 2 younger sisters - Sylvia Triebitz (1911-1949) & Mildred Triebitz (1918-?).
- Oldest of 3 daughters in family of Herman Triebitz (1877-1943) & Bertha Hert (1885-1967).
- I left Dorothy Tree in Hollywood.
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