Doris Dawson

Doris Dawson Levy was born on April 16 1905 in Goldfield Nevada the child of Bonewitz Xerxes Dawson and Reba Greenwood She was another starlet working away in lowbudget silent and early sound movie comedies as well as doing some photo modeling for the fashion industry Some Information from archiveorg motion picture realm 1929 Height 5 1 red hair blue eyes 103 lbs Schooling Miss Gildners School for Girls and the Virginia College in Roanoke VA Swimming dancing reading and riding No formal training in stage Doris Dawson got her start in 1927 in The Christie Comedies silent shorts made by Al Christie A girl I had known was working at the Mack Sennett studio I went to lunch with her one day and then went back to the studio to watch her work during the afternoon It was the first time I had ever been inside of a studio and I was quite excited They were shooting some swimming scenes and needed some girls who could dive My chum knowing that I could said she would get me a job working in the picture if I wanted to I declined at first since I had never before been given a thought to entering pictures However she urged me on and said we would have a lot of fun so I went to work Later on in 1927 she had small roles in Gold From Weepah and in the Tom Mix western The Arazona Wildcat During 1928 she was awarded the female lead opposite Harry Langdon in Heart Trouble The role earned her a 1929 WAMPAS Baby Star nod The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers and the trade paper Variety thought she had more sex appeal than a lot of peaches Harry has picked in the past Alas Langdons career was waning and few liked this comedy After that she had roles in Do Your Duty and The Little Wildcat both made in 1928 Hardly anybody enjoyed her film Hot Stuff released in August of 1928 It was a college burlesque which was set in a little village in the state of Coma During 1929 she had roles in His Captive Woman Children Of The Ritz Hot Stuff and in an early sound musical called Broadway Scandels After that she survived being hit by a car during September of 1929 On April 14 1930 in Lyndhurst New Jersey she married Pat William Rooney III the son of the famous Broadway tap dancer Her screen career suffered a severe setback with the advent of sound due to a voice that some called graiting After divorcing Pat Rooney in 1934 Doris returned for a final film the lowbudget disaster epic Silver Streak in 1934 In 1938 she remarried to Robert Davis Levy and they both ran a dog kennel in Florida where they raised some award winning show dogs Doris passed on April 20 1986 in Coral Gables Florida at the age of 81