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(Dorothy E. Abbott)
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| 16 December 20 |
is born in Kansas City, Missouri, to William V. and Helen M. Abbott
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is an Earl Carroll showgirl
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| November 47 |
is hailed a dancing cutie in Paramount’s upcoming Road to Rio
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is a Paramount stock player making $150 a week
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| January 48 |
she and fellow starlet Lucy Knoch promote the start of the beach baseball season in Hollywood
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| 49 ? |
marries Adolph “Rudy” Diaz, of Mescalero-Apache descent, a renowned and dashing narcotics squad officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s about 31; she’s about 28.
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| January 49 |
she and fellow starlet Gloria DeWerd are pictured poolside in fur coats and fur-lined boots gulping hot tea
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| July 49 |
poses with Red Skelton and Betty Arlen between scenes of Neptune’s Daughter
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is named “Miss Wilshire Club,” “Miss Los Angeles Transit,” and “Miss Oil Cans”
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| 51 |
makes $175 per week by dancing in Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick and is the lead in little theater productions at night
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is reported shopping around for good real estate investments. “She bought for a song a nice house that had to be moved because of the new Hollywood freeway. She fixed up the house on a Hollywood lot and now leases it for a pretty penny.”
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| July 51 |
promotes a single unit that combines kitchen range, refrigerator, sunk, drainboard, and storage drawer
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| August 55 |
resides in Hollywood with her husband, her mother and her daughter. “The versatile TV actress makes many of her own clothes and also is a licensed real estate broker - ‘just in case’...”
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| June 57 |
is cast as a detective in Pal Joey
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| August 62 |
her husband is one of the first officers called to Marilyn Monroe’s house after her suicide
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| November 64 |
columnist Mike Connolly reports “Ann Sothern’s been doing the everynight pheasant en cocotte bit (with a split or two of Chateau Cheval Blanc on the side) with handsome Sergeant Rudy Diaz of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Homicide Division - and believe me, the ain’t discussing homicide...”
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| January 65 |
her husband and Ann Sothern are noted at the Hollywood Foreign Press party
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| November 67 |
after 21 years of service, her husband resigns from the homicide division to become an actor
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| June 68 |
divorces Diaz in Los Angeles. Diaz will die at age 88 in 2006 in Los Angeles.
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| 5 / 15 December 68 |
kills herself at age 47 in Los Angeles after the breakup of her marriage
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as Dorothy E. Diaz, she is interred at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, Plot: Valley Lawn, Lot 2939
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Sources:
Record-Eagle, Syracuse Herald-American, The Doylestown Intelligencer, The Cullman Banner, The Zanesville Signal, The Albuquerque Tribune, The Bridgeport Telegram, Pasadena Star-News, The Vidette-Messenger, Anderson Daily Bulletin, www.Ancestry.com, www.Findagrave.com |
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