Years active: 1927 - 1936 (started around 22 years old; 9 years in the business)
About Dorothy Coburn
Dorothy Montana Coburn (June 8, 1905 – May 15, 1978) was an American film actress who appeared in a number of early Laurel and Hardy silents. She was a niece of author Walt Coburn and granddaughter of Robert Coburn Sr., founder of the Circle C Ranch in Montana.
Coburn played ingenue leads and comedic roles. Her documented film repertoire consisted of 16 silent short subjects for the Hal Roach studios, and she appeared in scores of films as horseback-stuntwoman opposite such stars as Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea, and as a stand-in for Ginger Rogers in several of her dancing films with Fred Astaire. Dorothy retired from the movie business in the early 1930s. Coburn occasionally worked as a stunt performer in westerns.
After leaving the movie business in 1936, she found employment as a receptionist for an insurance company. She was married twice. Coburn died in 1978, aged 72, from emphysema. She is interred in Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Her first husband, Joseph Maier, died in Santa Barbara on March 4, 1959. In 1973 she married Harry W. Heap in Santa Barbara, California. Before Coburn's death in 1978, the couple lived in Rancho Palos Verdes.
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My favourite from the Laurel and Hardy films. Beautiful ❤️
