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Dorothy McGuire
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Actor Born: June 14, 1916 in Omaha, NE Death: September 13, 2001 in Santa Monica, CA Biography:American actress "Dorothy McGuire" made her stage debut at age 13 in A Kiss For Cinderella in her home town of Omaha, opposite fellow aspiring actor and Omaha native "Henry Fonda". McGuire went to Broadway in 1938 to understudy "Martha Scott" in the role of Emily Webb in Our Town, eventually taking over the part; she also underwent an ingenue's ordeal by fire, acting opposite the dissipated "John Barrymore" in My Dear Children. Claudia, produced in 1941, was Dorothy's first starring stage vehicle. On the strength of this play, she was put under contract by film producer David O. Selznick, whose first move was to lend the actress out to 20th Century-Fox to recreate her role as the immature newlywed in the 1943 filmization of "Claudia". So popular was this film that a followup was made three years later, again starring McGuire, titled "Claudia and David" (1946). In the meantime she had played a far... Full Biography
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