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Dorothy Sebastian was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the USA on April 26, 1903, as Dorothy Sabiston. Among her most important films are Our Dancing Daughters (1928), A Woman of Affairs (1928), Spit Marriage (1929), and Allez Oop (1934). Dorothy Sebastian was born to a clergyman father and a skilled landscape painter mother. She had strong ambitions to become an actress, which were opposed by her father, and in the early twenties, she abandoned her university studies and fled to New York.
After several attempts, she worked in the theater as a chorus girl, and through some of her acquaintances, she managed to obtain a contract with MGM, and her first movie was Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925). She worked in several films in small roles, and during the Second World War she worked as an x-ray technician in a defense factory, and in aluminum and copper factories, and during that time, she continued her film career in minor roles. She received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960 for her film work and died on April 8, 1957, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, of cancer.
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