Dorothy Coburn
American actress (1905–1978) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American actress (1905–1978) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothy Montana Coburn (June 8, 1905 – May 15, 1978) was an American film actress who appeared in a number of early Laurel and Hardy silents. She was a niece of author Walt Coburn and granddaughter of Robert Coburn Sr., founder of the Circle C Ranch in Montana.[1]
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Dorothy Coburn | |
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 Dorothy Coburn in Hat Off! (1927) | |
| Born | Dorothy Montana Coburn June 8, 1905 |
| Died | May 15, 1978 (aged 72) |
| Resting place | Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) |
Joseph Maier (Death 1959)Harry W. Heap (m. 1973) |
| Relatives | Walt Coburn (Uncle) |
Coburn was born to cowboy-poet and Western film producer Wallace Coburn and Ann Reifenrath Coburn in Great Falls, Montana but raised in Prescott, Arizona.[1]
Coburn played ingenue leads and comedic roles.[2] Her documented film repertoire consisted of 16 silent short subjects for the Hal Roach studios, and she appeared in scores of films as horseback-stuntwoman opposite such stars as Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea,[citation needed] and as a stand-in for Ginger Rogers in several of her dancing films with Fred Astaire.[1] Coburn retired from the movie business in the early 1930s. Coburn occasionally worked as a stunt performer in westerns.[citation needed]
After leaving the movie business in 1936, she found employment as a receptionist for an insurance company. She was married twice. Coburn died in 1978, aged 72, from emphysema.[1] She is interred in Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.[3]
Her first husband, Joseph Maier, died in Santa Barbara on March 4, 1959.[4] In 1973 she married Harry W. Heap in Santa Barbara, California. Before Coburn's death in 1978, the couple lived in Rancho Palos Verdes.[citation needed]
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