Before she established herself as a feisty movie ingenue, dark-haired Dorothy Jordan trained in ballet and studied acting at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Art. A veteran of Broadway musicals, Jordan came to Hollywood in 1929, securing such roles as Bianca in the Fairbanks/Pickford version of Taming of the Shrew (1929) and the daughter of Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in Min and Bill (1930). From 1932 onward, Jordan's film assignments became increasingly humdrum, prompting her to retire from moviemaking when she married producer Merian C. Cooper. At the request (and cajoling) of her husband and their mutual friend John Ford, Dorothy Jordan made a brief comeback in three Ford-directed films of the 1950s, The Sun Shines Bright (1953), The Searchers (1956) and The Wings of Eagles (1957).
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The Wings of Eagles
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1957 | |||
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The Searchers
Actor |
1956 | |||
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The Sun Shines Bright
Actor |
1953 | |||
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Bondage
Actor |
1933 | |||
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One Man's Journey
Actor |
1933 | |||
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Strictly Personal
Actor |
1933 | |||
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70,000 Witnesses
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Down to Earth
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Hell Divers
Actor |
1932 | |||
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That's My Boy
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Lost Squadron
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Roadhouse Murder
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Wet Parade
Actor |
1932 | |||
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A Tailor Made Man
Actor |
1931 | |||
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Shipmates
Actor |
1931 | |||
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The Beloved Bachelor
Actor |
1931 | |||
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Young Sinners
Actor |
1931 | |||
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Call of the Flesh
Actor |
1930 | |||
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In Gay Madrid
Actor |
1930 | |||
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Love in the Rough
Actor |
1930 | |||
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Min and Bill
Actor |
1930 | |||
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Black Magic
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Devil May Care
Actor |
1929 | |||
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The Taming of the Shrew
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Words and Music
Actor |
1929 |







