Her Zodiac Pal

I love finding things like this - an adorable publicity release about Dorothy showing off her zodiac sign as embellishments on her clothes. What didn't the MGM Publicity Department think of?! When I think of all the photos I have seen of her doing silly things or wearing crazy outfits I can imagine they didn't miss much. At least this is alot less goofy than the license plate dress shown in an earlier post.

Dorothy's Carmelina Drive Home

According to the 1930 United States Federal Census, Dorothy lived in a home at 294 South Carmelina Drive in Los Angeles. She lived here with her chauffeur named Harry and cook named Maude (Harry and Maude were married). The house, a classic Spanish Revival bungalow, and garage were built in the Brentwood Club Estates in 1926 at a cost of $5,500. Supposedly, the house was a gift from her then love interest cowboy actor Tom Mix.

The house was put on the market and sold in October of 1933. No doubt a bad financial time for Dorothy and her then husband William Boyd as both of their careers had stalled and the strain on their marriage had begun. The house changed hands a few times over the years.Dorothy's old house washas been featured in two books and a home magazine due to all the lovely care and design brought into it by its current owners.

By 1987 this house was ready for demolition but the owners realized its supposed historic value and donated it to California State University, Dominguez Hills for use as a dean's home. Those plans never materialized so the house was moved to Sunland and put in storage. In 1991 it was bought, moved to Pasadena California and is now a beautiful and well manicured private residence.

License to Dress!

Ruth Harriet Louise Portrait

George Hurrell Portrait

Adolph Whitey Schafer

Here is a beautiful portrait of Dorothy done by Adolph L. Schafer in 1930. According to IMDB. com, Schafer was a lighting technician, assistant cameraman and still photographer.

As a photographer he had several photo shoots with many actors and actresses including William Boyd. I read an article about Boyd saying how much he hated having to sit for photo shoots that Schafer would have to track him down and beg him to sit for him. Once he actually told Boyd that he could lose his photography job because of him!

And thus a friendship was struck. I cannot find much of a bio on Schafer, but he was the best man at William Boyd and Dorothy's Las Vegas wedding in December of 1930. He also photographed them together for publicity photos after the wedding.

He died in 1951 at the age of 49 due to injuries he received in a yacht explosion.

The Boyds and the Schafers on a Las Vegas airfield ready to return to Hollywood after the nuptials of Dorothy and William.

Beauty a la Mud 1926

Goodness how time flies, I cannot believe my last post was Thanksgiving! It's about time I did some posting in this now not-so-New-Year....

Something I was very happy to find this year was a DVD of Dot's 1926 silent short "Beauty a la Mud" where she has a part as a beauty shop customer. (It was one of those eureka moments for me ~ you know, when you come across something you thought you'd never find). For some reason, on this DVD the short is called "This is the Life". Dorothy's part is short but sweet.



I like the Internet Movie Database website because people can contribute reviews and information about any films they like. It's where I discovered I could get the DVD and I bought it through Amazon. It's a compilation disc with a few other shorts called: Old Time Comedy Classics Volume 3. Finding this gives me hope that I'll be able to find more obscure Dorothy movies in time.

Speaking of movies.. I have been having problems uploading film shorts to the website, not sure what the issue is but hopefully I'll figure it all out soon!