1. Dorothy Fay was born Dorothy Fay Southworth in Prescott, Arizona, the daughter of Harry T Southworth and Harriet Fay Fox.
15 Facts About Dorothy Fay
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Dorothy Fay studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
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Dorothy Fay began her motion picture career in the late 1930s, performing in several B grade westerns.
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Dorothy Fay appeared with Western stars Buck Jones and William Elliott.
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Dorothy Fay made four movies with her husband, country singer and actor Tex Ritter, at Monogram Pictures: Song of the Buckaroo, Sundown on the Prairie, Rollin' Westward and Rainbow Over the Range.
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Dorothy Fay played a heroine in The Green Archer and White Eagle, both at Columbia Pictures.
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Dorothy Fay made a few small appearances in other genres, such as the crime drama Missing Daughters.
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Dorothy Fay appeared as a debutante in the MGM musical Lady Be Good starring Ann Sothern, Eleanor Powell, Robert Young and Lionel Barrymore.
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Dorothy Fay made several more movies after she and Ritter married, but then retired from show business in late 1941.
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Dorothy Fay turned down several offers to return to movie work, including an opportunity to appear on the ABC television series The Love Boat playing the mother of real-life son, John.
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Dorothy Fay was a frequent guest at western movie conventions.
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In 1987, Dorothy Fay suffered a stroke that impacted her speech.
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The error happened when an employee at the retirement home found that Dorothy Fay was not in her room, and after inquiring about her absence, was told that Dorothy Fay had "gone", by which it was meant that she had left her room and was in another wing of the building.
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Dorothy Fay died of natural causes at the age of 88 at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, California, less than two months after the death of her son, John.
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Dorothy Fay is interred with her parents at Mountain View Cemetery in her hometown of Prescott, Arizona.