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Dorothy Jordan
Actress
Female
Born
Aug 9, 1906
Hometown
Clarksville, Tenn...
Died
Dec 7, 1988
Death Place
Los Angeles, Cali...
Dorothy Jordan was an American movie actress who had a short but successful career beginning in talking pictures in 1929.
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CHILDHOOD
1906
Birth
Born on August 9, 1906.
TWENTIES
1929
22 Years Old
Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, Jordan made her screen debut in the 1929 film The Taming of the Shrew and went on to make twenty-two more films in the next four years, including Min and Bill with Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in 1930 and The Cabin in the Cotton with Bette Davis in 1932.
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1933
26 Years Old
In 1933, Jordan left films and married filmmaker, screenwriter and later World War II U.S. Army Air Forces Colonel Merian C. Cooper, who co-wrote, produced and directed the 1933 film King Kong.
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THIRTIES
1937
30 Years Old
In 1937, she came out of her leave and tested for the role of Melanie Hamilton in Gone With The Wind.
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FORTIES
1953
46 Years Old
It was for Argosy's The Sun Shines Bright, directed by Ford in 1953, that Jordan came out of retirement for a small role.
1956
49 Years Old
She then appeared in a small role as the sister-in-law of John Wayne's character, Ethan Edwards, who seeks Jordan's daughter, played by Natalie Wood, in the epic 1956 Argosy film The Searchers.
FIFTIES
1957
50 Years Old
Jordan appeared once more, in a small role in the John Ford film The Wings of Eagles in 1957 before retiring.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1973
66 Years Old
Jordan and Cooper lived in Coronado, California and remained married until his death of cancer on April 21, 1973.
1988
82 Years Old
Jordan died of congestive heart failure on December 7, 1988 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
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