Dorothy M. Johnson

Dorothy M. Johnson was born on Dec 19, 1905 in USA. Dorothy M. Johnson's big-screen debut came with The Hanging Tree directed by Delmer Daves in 1959. Dorothy M. Johnson is known for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance directed by John Ford, John Wayne stars as Tom Doniphon and James Stewart as Ransom Stoddard. The upcoming new movie Dorothy M. Johnson plays is Triumphs of a Man Called Horse which will be released on Mar 17, 1983.

A graduate of the University of Montana, Dorothy Marie Johnson left her widowed mother in Whitefish, Montana and moved to New York City, where she worked as a writer and an editor of women's magazines. In 1950, she returned to Whitefish and edited the local paper for three years; she then joined the faculty of the University of Montana School of Journalism. She subsequently published seventeen books and fifty-two short stories, all primarily about the American West.