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Dorothy Jordan
Dorothy Jordan in bathing-suit (1932)
Born	August 9, 1906(1906-08-09) Clarksville, Tennessee
Died	December 7, 1988 (aged 82) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1929-1957
Spouse(s)	Paul J. Barnes (?) Merian C. Cooper (1933-1973) (his death)

Dorothy Jordan (August 9, 1906 - December 7, 1988) was an American movie actress who had a short but successful career beginning in talking pictures in 1929.

1 Early career
2 Film retirement and return
3 Later years
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External links

Early career

Born in Clarksville, Tennessee, Jordan made her screen debut in the 1929 film The Taming of the Shrew^[1] and went on to make twenty-two more films in the next four years, including Min and Bill with Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in 1930 and The Cabin in the Cotton with Bette Davis in 1932. During that time, she appeared in films with Ramon Novarro, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston and Jimmy Durante.^[1]

Film retirement and return

In 1933, Jordan left films and married filmmaker, screenwriter and later World War II U.S. Army Air Forces Colonel Merian C. Cooper, who co-wrote, produced and directed the 1933 film King Kong. The couple had three children, a son and two daughters. Cooper was a good friend and frequent collaborator with Western director John Ford, forming Argosy Productions in 1947. It was for Argosy's The Sun Shines Bright, directed by Ford in 1953, that Jordan came out of retirement for a small role. She then appeared in a small role as the sister-in-law of John Wayne's character, Ethan Edwards, who seeks Jordan's daughter, played by Natalie Wood, in the epic 1956 Argosy film The Searchers. Jordan appeared once more, in a small role in the John Ford film The Wings of Eagles in 1957 before retiring.

Later years

Jordan and Cooper lived in Coronado, California and remained married until his death of cancer on April 21, 1973. Jordan died of congestive heart failure on December 7, 1988 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1929	Black Magic	Ann Bradbroke
	Words and Music	Song and dance principal
	The Taming of the Shrew	Bianca
	Devil-May-Care	Leonie
1930	In Gay Madrid	Carmiña Rivas
	Call of the Flesh	Maria Consuelo Vargas
	Love in the Rough	Marilyn Crawford
	Min and Bill	Nancy Smith
1931	A Tailor Made Man	Tanya
	Shipmates	Kit Corbin
	Young Sinners	Constance Sinclair
	Beloved Bachelor	Mitzi Stressman
	Hell Divers	Ann Mitchell
1932	The Lost Squadron	'Pest' Curwood
	The Wet Parade	Maggie May 'Persimmon' Chilcote
	The Roadhouse Murder	Mary Agnew
	Down to Earth	Julia Pearson
	70,000 Witnesses	Dorothy Clark
	That's My Boy	Dorothy Whitney
	The Cabin in the Cotton	Betty Wright
1933	Strictly Personal	Mary
	Bondage	Judy Peters
	One Man's Journey	Letty McGinnis
1953	The Sun Shines Bright	Lucy Lee's mother
1956	The Searchers	Martha Edwards
1957	The Wings of Eagles	Rose Brentmann

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Dorothy Jordan, 82; Entered Movies in '29". New York Times. 1988-12-30. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DD173AF930A25751C1A96E948260. Retrieved 2008-12-29.

External links

Dorothy Jordan (film actress) at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Jordan, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	1906-08-09
PLACE OF BIRTH	Clarksville, Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH	1988-12-07
PLACE OF DEATH	Los Angeles, California

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