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The niece of character actress Fay Bainter, Dorothy Burgess was a professional dancer in her mid-teens and a Broadway leading lady at 17. She made her film bow in the early talkie western In Old Arizona (1929), playing the double-dealing Mexican paramour of the roguish Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter). While she continued working in the major studios throughout the 1930s, Dorothy`s bid for screen stardom never really took hold. After 1935`s The Village Tale, Dorothy Burgess returned to the stage, infrequently accepting character roles in such lower-berth programmers as Universal`s I Want a Divorce (1940) and PRC`s Girls in Chains (1943).
Biography Credit: www.allmovie.com/artist/9572
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