Dorothy Page, born on March 4, 1904, in Northampton, Pennsylvania, began her career as a college student, selected by Curtis Publishing Company to model for the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post". After marrying a medical student in 1925, they moved to Detroit, where he established his medical practice. When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, Dorothy, who had majored in music, auditioned for a singing spot in the Paul Whiteman band. She landed the job, performing on Whiteman's NBC Radio show and gaining immense popularity. In 1935, she became a regular on the "Paducah Plantation" radio program, starring alongside Irvin S. Cobb.
That same year, she was signed to a contract by Universal Pictures, starring in the lower-budget musical "Manhattan Moon" alongside Ricardo Cortez, which received positive feedback. However, her next film, "King Solomon of Broadway", was less successful, and she was subsequently dropped by Universal. A few years later, she tried her luck in films again with "Mama Runs Wild", a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy, but without singing, the film did not perform well critically or financially.
Grand National Pictures, a struggling studio, signed Dorothy for a series of medium-budgeted musical westerns, featuring her as a singing cowgirl. Although the films were not particularly successful, the studio dropped the series and Dorothy soon after. The studio eventually went out of business. Dorothy retired from acting to focus on her family, only to experience a string of unfortunate events. Her first marriage ended in divorce, and she remarried twice more, with her third husband, a rancher, passing away in 1941. She soon remarried again and moved to Fresno, California, to help him run his ranching business.
The 1950s were marked by personal struggles, including a broken marriage and a cancer diagnosis. Dorothy moved to Florida to be closer to her treatment, but unfortunately, succumbed to the disease in 1961.
