
Dorothy Sebastian
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.
Acting (49 movies)

Show People
1928

Rough Riders' Round-up
1939

Hell's Island
1930

The Arizona Wildcat
1927

Our Dancing Daughters
1928

Free and Easy
1930

The Big Gamble
1931

The Demi-Bride
1927

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
1930

Spite Marriage
1929

Allez Oop
1934

The Single Standard
1929

Montana Moon
1930

The Arizona Kid
1939

Our Blushing Brides
1930

The Unholy Night
1929

They Never Come Back
1932

Winds of Chance
1925

The Mysterious Pilot
1937

The Women
1939

Among the Living
1941

Officer O'Brien
1930

The Show
1927

A Woman of Affairs
1928

The Utah Kid
1930

Days of Jesse James
1939

Ship of Wanted Men
1933

Twelve Miles Out
1927

You'd Be Surprised
1926

The Rounder
1930

The Adventurer
1928

His First Command
1929

Sackcloth and Scarlet
1925

Ships of Hate
1931

Love
1927

Kansas Cyclone
1941

The Miracle of the Bells
1948

The Life of Vergie Winters
1934

Why Women Love
1925

Morgan's Last Raid
1929

Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926

The Spirit of Youth
1929

California
1927

Contrabando
1932

Brothers
1930

The Haunted Ship
1927

Beauty à la Mud
1926

Torrent
1926

No Sleep on the Deep
1934
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