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Dorothy Morris (February 23, 1922 – November 20, 2011) was an American film and television actress known for her "girl next door" persona. Morris was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a Methodist minister. She studied acting under famed drama teacher Maria Ouspenskaya. She did a screen test for the female lead in The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942), but lost to Donna Reed. Morris was signed to an MGM contract in 1942. For one of her early film roles, Cry 'Havoc' (1943), she affected a British accent. The highlight of her career, however, was in 1945 when she... MORE

Dorothy Morris (February 23, 1922 – November 20, 2011) was an American film and television actress known for her "girl next door" persona. Morris was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a Methodist minister. She studied acting under famed drama teacher Maria Ouspenskaya. She did a screen test for the female lead in The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942), but lost to Donna Reed. Morris was signed to an MGM contract in 1942. For one of her early film roles, Cry 'Havoc' (1943), she affected a British accent. The highlight of her career, however, was in 1945 when she starred as Ingeborg Jensen in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. Other screen roles included Someone to Remember (1943), The Human Comedy (1943), Rationing (1944) and None Shall Escape (1944). Morris is often remembered for her featured appearances in M-G-M short subjects. She appeared in several of the studio's "miniatures," including the Pete Smith, Passing Parade, and Crime Does Not Pay series. The Crime short turned out so well that M-G-M expanded it into a full-length feature, Main Street After Dark (1945). (Morris reminisces about her short-subjects experience in the Turner Classic Movies documentary LESS