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Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Dorothy Dell

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Dorothy Dell was an American film actress. She won the most beautiful baby in Hattiesburg beauty contest when she was thirteen months old. Winning the Miss New Orleans title, when she was fifteen, she went on a Fanchon and Marco vaudeville tour for six months. She got a job with the Ziegfield Follies of 1931 when she arrived in New York City. She sang a solo, "Was I Drunk?” in the production. All of her films at Paramount were released in 1934. She died in an automobile accident on June 8, 1934 at the age of 19.

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