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Dorothy Lee is best remembered for her screen appearances with the popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. She went from being a struggling vaudeville performer to the female vocalist in one of the most successful bands in the country to a star in the new-fangled "talking pictures" all within the span of a few short years. During the Great Depression, she lived a fairy-tale existence, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood luminaries and earning an income that most people could only dream of. She retired and balanced domestic life with charity work. And she saw, to her amazement, a revived interest in the movie career she had written off long ago. Based on years of conversations between the authors and Dorothy Lee, this book is an informative biography filled with revealing insights on navigating the studio system during Hollywood's Golden Age and the ephemeral nature of fame.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Nick Santa Maria
Preface
1 • Do Something: Presenting Marjorie Millsap
2 • I Want the World to Know: Broadway Baby
3 • Sweetheart, We Need Each Other: Boys Meet Girl
4 • Whistling the Blues Away: The Star Treatment
5 • You've Got What Gets Me: Parting Company
6 • Niagara Falls to Reno: A Star Without a Studio
7 • Keep on Doin' What You're Doin': Back with the Boys
8 • Isn't Love the Grandest Thing? Marriage Between Movies
9 • My One Ambition Is You: Motherhood, Matrimony and
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10 • I Love You So Much: Kindred Spirits in the Autumn Years
11 • Dilly Dally: An Unexpected Rediscovery
12 • Dance and Let the World Dance with You: A Final Bow
Afterword
Filmography
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
