death_date death_place birth_place birth_date spouse yearsactive image article_title birth_name
24 june 1999 san diego , california , u.s. los angeles , california , u.s. 23 may 1911 robert jimmy fidler -lrb- 1931 & ndash ; 1931 -rrb- marshall booth duffield -lrb- 1933 & ndash ; 1935 -rrb- a.g. atwater -lrb- -lrb- 1937 & ndash ; 1939 -rrb- john bersbach -lrb- 1927 1941 & ndash ; 1960 -rrb- charles calderini -lrb- 1960 & & ndash ; 1985 -rrb- ndash ; 1929 -rrb- 1929 & ndash ; 1941 dorothy lee.jpg dorothy lee -lrb- actress -rrb-
 marjorie elizabeth millsap
dorothy lee -lrb- actress -rrb-

dorothy lee -lrb- may 23 , 1911 -- june 24 , 1999 -rrb- was an american actress and comedian during the 1930s , usually appearing alongside the popular wheeler & woolsey comedy team .
born marjorie elizabeth millsap in los angeles , she started seeking film roles in 1929 , after graduating from high school , but ended up in new york working on the stage .
at 18 , she signed with rko radio pictures and began working with wheeler & woolsey ; she became so identified with the comedians that she seldom appeared apart from them .
she withdrew from the series after producer david o. selznick tampered with her performance in `` girl crazy '' ; she returned when selznick 's successor mark sandrich cast her in two well-received features in 1934 .
rko replaced her with mary carlisle and then betty grable , but she returned in 1935 for two final appearances .
in the early 1940s , after robert woolsey had died , bert wheeler was struggling to re-establish himself as a solo performer , and asked dorothy lee to tour with him in vaudeville .
she immediately interrupted her private life to help her old friend .
lee was married six times , including briefly to hollywood gossip columnist jimmy fidler .
she had four children by her fifth husband , frank ` john ' bersbach jr. .
she died in 1999 , at the age of 88 .
