DeBorba, Dorothy
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Birthname | Dorothy Adelle DeBorba | ||||
born on | 28 March 1925 at 09:50 (= 09:50 AM ) | ||||
Place | Los Angeles, California, 34n03, 118w15 | ||||
Timezone | PST h8w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American child actress from age five who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933. With her trademark curls and elaborate hair bows, Dorothy quickly became an audience favourite.
Of Portuguese Azorean ancestry, she came from a show business background. Her mother was a singer-dancer-actress, and her father was a drummer in Paul Whiteman's band.
Dorothy DeBorba impressed Hal Roach for her ability to cry on cue. Her debut was an auspicious one: in Pups Is Pups (1930), she plays Jackie Cooper's younger sister. She appeared in twenty-four Our Gang comedies over three years with her last appearance coming in Mush and Milk (1933).
DeBorba graduated from Van Nuys High School and then worked at Republic Pictures. In later years she was a senior clerk in the School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley. She married twice, and had two children. DeBorba died on 2 June 2010 of emphysema at the age of 85 in Walnut Creek, California.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Albright, Wally (born 3 September 1925). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Bailey, Sherwood (born 6 August 1923). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Beard, Matthew (born 1 January 1925). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Bond, Tommy (born 16 September 1926). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Chaney, Norman (born 18 October 1914). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Cooper, Jackie (born 15 September 1922). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Jackson, Mary Ann (born 14 January 1923). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with McFarlane, "Spanky" (born 19 June 1942). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Moore, Dickie (born 12 September 1925). Notes: Co-stars in "Our Gang" films
- associate relationship with Wertz, Harold (born 3 August 1927). Notes: Co-stars in 1932 "Our Gang" films
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate.
Categories
- Traits : Body : Hair (Curls and elaborate hair bows)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Emphysema (Terminal)
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Emphysema)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 85)
- Vocation : Business : Clerical/ Secretarial
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress (Film)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Child performer (Actress, aged 5-8)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Comedy
- 1925 births
- Birthday 28 March
- Birthplace Los Angeles, CA (US)
- Sun 7 Aries
- Moon 27 Taurus
- Asc 22 Gemini
- 2010 deaths
- Traits : Body : Hair
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Emphysema
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Business : Clerical/ Secretarial
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Child performer
- Vocation : Entertainment : Comedy