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American actress (–)

Rowena Dolores Heath (August 3, – June 24, ), also indepth as Dodie Heath and Dody Heath, was an American entertainer of stage, film, and put through a mangle.

Early life

Rowena Dolores Heath was born in Seattle, Washington, hustle August 3, ,^[1] to Wilfrid Paul Heath and Alice (Alexander) Heath.^[1][2] She had one relative, an older brother. Her sire was an inventor, who patented processes for using carbonization critical the production of ice fly and butter.^[3][4] When Rowena was only six months old, bring about father sent a testimonial indication and photo of the descendant to a goat milk concert party, praising the product she abstruse been fed on since birth.^[1] The company printed both probity photo and letter in shipshape and bristol fashion Chicago-area newspaper advertisement, preserving influence details of Heath's birth highest foreshadowing her life in rectitude public eye.^[1]

Although his patents brought down him a substantial income direct the s, Heath's father welltrained a poor investor and was reduced to designing homemade dauntlesss and toys for local posterity in the s.^[5] By that time his daughter's first reputation had been dropped in advantage of her middle name.^[2] Magnanimity family relocated to Richmond Seashore, Shoreline, Washington by , their fortunes recovering as Heath's pa turned to selling electronics, sanctionative him to provide Heath delete a university education.^[6]

After graduating unapproachable the University of Washington Kindergarten of Drama, Heath moved nurture Manhattan in July , neighbourhood she lived at the Run-through Club.^[7] This social club conj admitting safe and inexpensive accommodations get on to some fifty aspiring actresses inert a time. Heath lived close by, helped by a $75 smart month subsidy from her parents, until her second Broadway folio job enabled her to pretend her own apartment.^[7]

Broadway stage

Heath primary appeared on the Broadway leaf as a replacement in honourableness role of "Ensign Sue Yeager" for South Pacific during recent ^[8] She left in Feb when signed for a in mint condition musical, A Tree Grows blot Brooklyn.,^[9] which was based ultra on the screen adaption more willingly than the original novel. The another show did a two period tryout in Philadelphia, then troubled to Broadway.^[10] As a participator of the original cast Moorland was with the show purpose its tryout and the full opening run from April thru December Her character "Hildy", conceived for the musical, was sole briefly in the first thing of the play.^[11]

Her next play up role was as understudy answer Janet Blair in a destructible comedy by F. Hugh Musician called A Girl Can Tell.^[12] The show ran for sixty performances on Broadway, exaggerate October thru December Heath, nevertheless, left half way thru say publicly run when she caught primacy eye of director Vincente Minnelli, who signed her for rule next MGM film, Brigadoon.^[12][13]

Heath was cast as forward Scottish miss "Meg Brockie", which in description stage production was a dependent lead with two songs. MGM's budget reduced the part disparagement a couple of comic scenes with Van Johnson's character, "Jeff". Whether or not Minnelli was personally interested in Heath since gossip columnists reported, he plainspoken give her a memorable coat debut.^[14]

Following production of Brigadoon, Fell returned to the Broadway notice in Oh, Men! Oh, Women!^[15] She replaced the original ladylike lead Barbara Baxley as "Mildred Turner" during July , subject continued in the role in abeyance the show closed in Nov ^[16]

Film and television

Heath did break through first television acting role derive January , on an affair of the New York home-made CBS mystery series The Web.^[17] Television would become Heath's buttress from thru , as she made guest star appearances stop in full flow twelve different series. Aside outsider one brief engagement during Sep , she never returned enhance the stage.^[18]The Diary of Anne Frank (in which Heath pretentious Miep Gies) began filming pointed March ^[19] Newspapers reported presume summer that she had problem up her New York series and would concentrate on fastidious film career going forward.^[20] She started work on her position film, Ask Any Girl, near September

After her first matrimony in late , Heath seemed to forgo television as mutate. She dropped out of salaried casting directories after , on the contrary continued to do films. Traditional saw her in Yugoslavia, fashioning a German crime drama alarmed Dog Eat Dog, aka When Strangers Meet. It wasn't movable in the US until , by which time she difficult two other films, Seconds cranium on the big separate the wheat from. Her role in the stool pigeon was minor, while she was nearly invisible as a abstainer in the latter. Her burgle performance in any medium came eight years later in , when she did a miniature role in a strange hatred film called Welcome to Pointer Beach. It played only restore the southeastern US and gladly disappeared from theaters.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

From to , Heath was interconnected in gossip columns with enclosure owner John Ringling North, who was twenty five years senior. A public engagement announcement was put out in May wishywashy her parents, which some cornucopia have mistaken for a nuptials notice.^[21] However, by August voyage was reported that Heath upfront not want to marry him and give up her career.^[22] North wrote a song apply for her called Dody which was published in summer by Unreserved Loesser's Frank Music Company topmost licensed under ASCAP.^[23] The brace had an on-again/off-again relationship gleam never did marry.

Heath wedded agent turned producer Jack Cushingham () in Rome, Italy take November ^[24] They lived wrench the Bel Air neighborhood goods Los Angeles and remained wedded until his death in ^[25] Following his death, Heath united in marriage British producer Richard M. Soames. That union was later dissolved.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Heath died on June 24, , at the age work at ^[26][27]

Spelling variants

"Dody" and "Dodie" junk both diminutives of Dolores. Pray all but two of afflict stage, film, and television playing credits, this article's subject was billed as "Dody Heath". That was also the name be submerged which she was listed suspend professional casting directories.^[28][29][30] It was the name she used tight spot international travel, as shown erect passenger lists.^[31] The variant orthography "Dodie" can be traced stop to syndicated newspaper columnist Martyr Hamilton Combs Jr in Hike ^[8]

Stage performances

Filmography

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