1. Dorothy Tree appeared in a wide range of character roles in at least 49 films between 1927 and 1951.
13 Facts About Dorothy Tree
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Dorothy Tree was born in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of three daughters of Herman Triebitz and Bertha Hert.
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Dorothy Tree's sisters were Sylvia Triebitz and Mildred "Mimi" Triebitz Dorothy Tree's parents were born in Austria, and immigrated to the United States.
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Dorothy Tree was the proprietor of a shoe store in Brooklyn, and later sold shoes wholesale.
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Dorothy Tree next played a wife of Bela Lugosi's Dracula ; she played a bride of Dracula in the Spanish language version of the same title, which was shot at night with a different cast using the same sets at Universal.
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Dorothy Tree attracted attention as a feminine menace on the screen as the hairdresser-spy, Hilda Kleinhauer, in the Warner Bros.
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Dorothy Tree was signed by RKO to portray the important role as Elizabeth Edwards, Mary Todd's sister, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois starring Raymond Massey.
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Dorothy Tree portrayed Martha Rockne in the Warners biopic Knute Rockne, All American, the mother of the famous football coach played by Pat O'Brien.
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Dorothy Tree appeared as Aunt Martha Dale in a teleplay of the live television anthology series The Silver Theatre, which was titled Minor Incident.
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Dorothy Tree then began a second career teaching voice and diction in New York.
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Dorothy Tree specialized in singing in English at the Metropolitan Opera and the Mannes College of Music, and taught at the Manhattan School of Music, using her married name, Dorothy Uris.
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Dorothy Tree Uris died at age 85 of heart failure at the Actors Fund of America Nursing Home in Englewood, New Jersey.
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Dorothy Tree married on June 8,1928, in Manhattan, New York, screenwriter and story editor Michael Uris.