Dorothy Patrick

Biography

Dorothy Patrick was a Canadian-American film actress and John Robert Powers model born Dorothea Wilma Davis on June 3, 1921, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She began modeling as a teenager for popular Canadian department stores and later emigrated to the US with her mother at 17. Patrick won Samuel Goldwyn's Gateway to Hollywood talent-search contest in 1939, leading to a movie contract and appearances in films such as "Torch Song" (1953) and "House by the River" (1950).