Friday, October 22, 2010

The Art of the Dangle 27: Dorothy Dell



After winning the Miss New Orleans contest in 1930, at age 15, Dorothy Dell joined the Ziegfield Follies of 1931. She made four films for Paramount, all released in 1934. Tragically, her promising future was cut short by her death in a car accident in June of that year. She was only 19 at the time of her death.


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  1. She was my dads first cousin her mother was lilly davis my dads father ham davis was her uncle my dad jd her first cousin knew her well it was a true tradgy her mother is buried in her tomb i was just a child but i remember going in the tomb to place her mothers casket there with her daughter it was in the mid sixties we went to the train station to receive her mothers body from new york to new orleans

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