Biography for
Dorothy Kingsley More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

14 October 1909, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death

26 September 1997, Carmel, California, USA (heart failure)

Mini Biography

Former comedy writer on radio (for Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and others) who became a leading screenwriter (and sometimes an uncredited script rewriter) in Hollywood during the 1940's and 50's. She later created the "Bracken's World" (1969) TV series.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>

Mini Biography

The daughter of silent-screen star Alma Hanlon and Broadway writer/press agent Walter Kingsley, Dorothy Kingsley began her career as an uncredited gag writer for the Bob Hope Radio Show and, later, the Edgar Bergen Radio Show. Producer Arthur Freed put her under contract to MGM; her first assignment was polishing the Garland-Rooney musical Girl Crazy (1943). She later wrote a number of scripts for Debbie Reynolds and 'Esther Williams (I)'. After leaving Hollywood for Carmel, California, she and her husband William Durney started the Durney Vineyard brand winery.

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Spouse

William Durney

(? - 1989) (his death)

Trivia

Daughter of silent screen star Alma Hanlon and Broadway writer and publicist Walter Kingsley.

She and her husband were among the earliest vinters in the Carmel Valley Wine region. They created the first vineyard there in 1968.

Personal Quotes

I never think of myself as a real writer. I only wrote because I I needed the money.