
Acting
Born April 26, 1903 · Birmingham, Alabama, USA
From Wikipedia Dorothy Sebastian (April 26, 1903 – April 8, 1957) was an American film and stage actress. Sebastian was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In her youth, she aspired to be a dancer and a film actress. Her family frowned on both ambitions, however, so she fled to New York at the age of 15. Upon her arrival in New York City, Sebastian's southern drawl was thick enough to "cut with a knife". She followed around theatrical agents before returning at night to a $12-a-month room, after being consistently rejected. Sebastian's first contact in Hollywood was Robert Kane, who gave her a film test at United Studios. She performed in George White's Scandals and later co-starred with Joan Crawford and Anita Page for a popular series of MGM romantic dramas including Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and Our Blushing Brides (1930). Sebastian also appeared in 1929's Spite Marriage, wherein she was cast opposite her then-lover Buster Keaton. By the mid-1930s, Sebastian was semi-retired from acting after marrying Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd. After their 1936 divorce, she returned to acting appearing in mostly bit parts. Her last onscreen appearance was in the 1948 film The Miracle of the Bells. Sebastian married actor William Boyd in December 1930 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They began a relationship after meeting on the set of His First Command in 1929. They divorced in 1936. In 1947, Sebastian married Miami Beach businessman Harold Shapiro to whom she remained married until her death. On April 8, 1957, Sebastian died of cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Dorothy Sebastian has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6655 Hollywood Blvd.

The Miracle of the Bells
1948

Among the Living
1941

Kansas Cyclone
1941

Days of Jesse James
1939

The Arizona Kid
1939

The Women
1939

Rough Riders' Round-up
1939

The Mysterious Pilot
1937

The Life of Vergie Winters
1934

Allez Oop
1934

No Sleep on the Deep
1934

Ship of Wanted Men
1933

Contrabando
1932

They Never Come Back
1932

The Wide Open Spaces
1931
The Deceiver
1931

The Big Gamble
1931

Ships of Hate
1931

The Lightning Flyer
1931

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
1930

The Utah Kid
1930

Brothers
1930

Ladies Must Play
1930

Our Blushing Brides
1930

Hell's Island
1930

Free and Easy
1930

Montana Moon
1930

Officer O'Brien
1930

The Rounder
1930

His First Command
1929

The Unholy Night
1929

The Single Standard
1929

Spite Marriage
1929
The Devil's Apple Tree
1929

The Spirit of Youth
1929

Morgan's Last Raid
1929

A Woman of Affairs
1928

Show People
1928

Our Dancing Daughters
1928

The Adventurer
1928
Wyoming
1928

The Haunted Ship
1927

Love
1927

The Arizona Wildcat
1927

Tea For Three
1927

The Isle of Forgotten Women
1927

Twelve Miles Out
1927
On Ze Boulevard
1927

California
1927

The Demi-Bride
1927

The Show
1927

You'd Be Surprised
1926

Beauty à la Mud
1926

Torrent
1926

Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926

Why Women Love
1925

Winds of Chance
1925

Sackcloth and Scarlet
1925