Dorris Bowdon

Biography

Dorris Estelle Bowdon was an American actress born on December 27, 1914, in Coldwater, Mississippi, to James and Lillian Bowdon. She gained recognition for her roles in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) as Rosasharn and Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) as Mary Reall. Her personal life was marked by a long marriage to Nunnally Johnson, with whom she had three children, before her passing at 90 due to stroke and heart failure in 2005.