Dorothy Kingsley

Dorothy Kingsley was born on Oct 14, 1909 in USA. Dorothy Kingsley's big-screen debut came with Look Who's Laughing directed by Allan Dwan in 1941. Dorothy Kingsley is known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers directed by Stanley Donen, Howard Keel stars as Adam Pontipee and Jeff Richards as Benjamin Pontipee. Dorothy Kingsley has got 1 awards and 7 nominations so far. The most recent award Dorothy Kingsley achieved is Writers Guild of America, USA. The upcoming new movie Dorothy Kingsley plays is Angels in the Outfield which will be released on Jul 15, 1994.

The daughter of silent-screen star Alma Hanlon and Broadway writer/press agent Walter Kingsley, Dorothy Kingsley began her career as an uncredited gag writer for the Bob Hope Radio Show and, later, the Edgar Bergen Radio Show. Producer Arthur Freed put her under contract to MGM; her first assignment was polishing the Garland-Rooney musical Fou de girls (1943). She later wrote a number of scripts for Debbie Reynolds and 'Esther Williams (I)'. After leaving Hollywood for Carmel, California, she and her husband William Durney started the Durney Vineyard brand winery.