Dorothy Cumming

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Dorothy G. Cumming
Born 1895/1899
New South Wales, Australia
Died 10 December 1983
New York, New York, USA
Other name(s) Dorothy Cummings
Occupation Stage/silent film actress
Years active 1915 - 1929

Dorothy G. Cumming was an actress of the silent film era. She appeared in 39 American, English, and Australian films between 1915 and 1929. She also appeared in stage productions in those same countries. After her film career ended, she became a designer of wallpapers in association with her sister Rose Cumming.

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[edit] Birth data

She was born in New South Wales. Her 1932 wedding announcement in the New York Times states that her family was from Morrengullen Estates, New South Wales. Though published information gives her birth year as 1899, that same ship's manifest, accessed at ellisisland.org, gives Cumming's age as 26 years and 7 months, which would mean she was born four years earlier, in 1895. The 7 months also puts her birth month at odds, since it indicates that she was born in July, rather than April.

[edit] Family

The youngest daughter of Victor Cumming, a sheep rancher, and his wife, the former Sarah T. Fennell, she had two full siblings: Rose Cumming, who became a prominent American interior decorator, and Eileen Cumming, an advertising executive who married rheumatologist Dr. Russell LaFayette Cecil. She also had several half-siblings from her mother's first marriage.

[edit] Marriages

Dorothy Cumming was married twice. Her first husband was Frank Elliott Dakin (married 1922 - divorced 1927). Her second husband, whom she married on 2 August 1932, was Allan McNab, a British artist and designer who became the art director of Life, worked as design director for Norman Bel Geddes, and became the director of administration of the Art Institute of Chicago.

[edit] Children

She had three children, including two sons from her first marriage, Anthony Cumming and Lt. Greville C. E. Cumming (1921-1942).

[edit] Death

She died in New York, New York in 1983.

[edit] Selected filmography

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NAME Cumming, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION actress
DATE OF BIRTH apparently 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH 10 December 1983
PLACE OF DEATH New York City