BORN: June 8, 1904 in Great Falls,Montana. DIED: May 15, 1978 in Los Angeles, CA.
Biography of Dorothy Coburn :
Raised in Prescott, Arizona, Dorothy Coburn was born to cowboy-poet and Western film Producer Wallace & Ann Reifenrath Coburn in Montana. Her documented film repertoire consisted of 16 silent short subjects for the Hal Roach studios but was also in scores of films where she acted as horseback-stuntwoman opposite such Stars as Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea and as a standin for Ginger Rogers in many of her dancing films with Fred Astaire. A muscular athletic beauty, she was quite often juxtaposed to film legends Laurel & Hardy to stifle their comedy antics. At the time of her death, she was living in Rancho Palos Verdes leaving widower Harry W. Heap her childhood sweetheart whom she married in 1973 in Santa Barbara, CA. Her name at the time of the marriage was Dorothy Maier indicating a prior marriage. Mr. Heap would die in Sandoval, New Mexico on January 7,1994. She was the neice of author Walt Coburn (d.1971), brother of Robert Coburn Jr. and grandaughter of Robert Sr. founder of the famous Circle C Ranch in Montana. See a biography From: The International Movie Data Base
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