Dorothy Dell

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Dorothy Dell Goff (born January 30, 1915 in Hattiesburg , Mississippi , † June 8, 1934 in Altadena , California ) was an American actress and singer who starred in a total of four films from 1932 until her accidental death in June 1934.

Life

Grave of Dorothy Dell

Dorothy Dell Goff was born as the only child of Elbert and Lillian Dell Goff on January 30, 1915 in Hattiesburg. At the age of 13, she moved to New Orleans with her entertainer parents , where she competed in beauty pageants . In 1930, at the age of 15, she won the Miss New Orleans election . In the same year she also won the International Pageant of Pulchritude . She then performed successfully in vaudeville pieces before moving to New York in 1931 .

During an appearance at a fundraising event, Dell was discovered by Florenz Ziegfeld junior , who had her engaged for appearances at the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway . 1933 followed a role in the play Tattle Tales , which was also performed on Broadway. A year earlier, Dell had a supporting role in the short film Passing the Buck .

During her time on Broadway, Dorothy Dell met the then much better known singer and actor Russ Columbo . However, the relationship ended after several fake relationships with well-known movie stars arranged by Columbo's then manager Con Conrad .

In December 1933, Dorothy Dell moved to Hollywood , where she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures . In 1934 she got her first major film role alongside Victor McLaglen in Wharf Angel and was preferred to established actresses such as Mae Clarke and Isabel Jewell , who had also applied for her role. That same year she also starred in Little Miss Marker alongside Shirley Temple and in Shoot the Works alongside Mae West .

On June 8, 1934, Dorothy Dell was with a friend, 38-year-old Dr. Carl Wagner on a trip to Altadena to recover from the exertion of shooting Shoot the Works and to meet with Wagner's mother. On the way home, Wagner got off the road for reasons that were not clear. The car collided with a phone booth and a palm tree before it came to a stop on a rock. Dorothy Dell died at the scene of the accident, Carl Wagner six hours later in a hospital.

Dell was buried in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans. Her scenes in Shoot the Works had already been shot at the time of her death, but the film premiered just under a month later on June 29, 1934.

Originally Dorothy Dell was for a role in the movie Now and Forever alongside Gary Cooper provided and Shirley Temple, but she died before filming began. Your role was instead cast with Carole Lombard .

One day before her fatal car accident, Dorothy Dell reported the deaths of her fellow actors Lilyan Tashman and Lew Cody with the words “The old theater tradition says death strikes in threes. I wonder who'll be next? "(German:" The old theater tradition says death always strikes three times. I wonder who will be next? ").

Filmography

  • 1932: Passing the Buck
  • 1934: Wharf Angel
  • 1934: The Lucky Doll (Little Miss Marker)
  • 1934: Shoot the Works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothy Dell. (No longer available online.) January 30, 2013, archived from the original on March 28, 2016 ; accessed on March 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / classiccinemagold.com
  2. ↑ Steve Starr: Dorothy Dell. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Dell, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dell Goff, Dorothy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattiesburg , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1934
Place of death Altadena , California