Dorothy Lee

After finishing high school, 'Dorothy Lee' (qv) went to vaudeville, sang with 'Fred Waring' (qv) and His Pennsylvaninans and made her film debut in _Syncopation (1929)_ (qv). In _Rio Rita (1929)_ (qv) she was teamed with 'Bert Wheeler' (qv) and 'Robert Woolsey' (qv) and appeared in almost all of their movies, like 'Margaret Dumont' (qv) in 'The Marx Brothers' (qv)' films. She had a short marriage to Hollywood gossip columnist 'Jimmy Fidler' (qv) in 1931. After the Wheeler and Woolsey team split up, her career drifted away and she left the film business in 1939. She returned for a few more films in the early '40s, but then permanently retired after that.::Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>