Dorothy Page

Dorothy Page (March 4, 1904 – March 26, 1961), also known as The Singing Cowgirl, was a B movie film actress during the 1930s.

Early life and education Dorothy Page was born Dorothy Lillian Stofflett on March 4, 1904, in Northampton, Pennsylvania. In the 1920s, Page attended Cedar Crest College, where she majored in music. She worked as a secretary at Curtis Publishing Company and won a beauty contest during that time. The first of these was Water Rustlers in 1939, starring Page and Dave O'Brien. Unfortunately, the movie-going public did not accept a woman in the lead role of a western. in which Page again starred with O'Brien. It would be the last film by Grand National Pictures, and shortly thereafter they went out of business.

Personal life On July 3, 1925, at age 21, Page married Waldo Shipton of Detroit, a doctor she met in college at Cedar Crest College. The couple had two daughters by 1929, but divorced in 1932.

Homage

In one of Columbo's episodes ("Ashes to Ashes", Season 10 Episode 12), she may have been portrayed in the character of Dorothea Page, the deceased silent film star from whom Patrick McGoohan (in his role as Eric Prince, funeral director to the stars) stole a valuable diamond off her deceased body. Portraying her in this episode as a silent movie star may have been to show the way society in the late 1930s wanted to silence the "Singing Cowgirl".