Dorothy Layton (August 13, 1912 – June 4, 2009) was an American

film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

of the early 1930s.

Life

Born as Dorothy Ann Wannenwetsch in

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, Layton was selected as one of the "

WAMPAS Baby Stars The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. ...

" for 1932. Layton acted in eight films in 1932 and 1933, appearing several times with Laurel and Hardy. She appeared in the films '' Chickens Come Home'' (1931), '' The Chimp'', '' County Hospital'', and '' Pack Up Your Troubles'' (all 1932).Dorothy Layton profile
/ref> Her London ''Telegraph'' obituary described her as their "last great female stooge." The only film she made of any prominence, however, was '' Pick-Up'' (1933), which starred George Raft and Sylvia Sidney. In 1934, Layton left the motion picture industry and moved to

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, where she met and married Howard W. Taylor Jr., a Baltimore businessman who sold mattresses.The couple had two children, a son and daughter. The marriage ended in divorce. Dorothy Layton died on June 4, 2009, at a retirement home in

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, aged 96.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Layton, Dorothy 1912 births 2009 deaths American film actresses Actresses from Cincinnati WAMPAS Baby Stars 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American women