Entered motion pictures in 1940 after a career in the New York theater.
Lived at 115 East 39th Street, NYC.
Doro Merande (nee Dora Matthews) appeared in 25 Broadway plays, most
famously as the old lady who "loved weddings" in the original 1938
production of "Our Town". This part brought her to Hollywood in 1940.
Worked under her real name, Dora Matthews, in many films in the early
1930's, before changing her professional name to Doro Merande; not to
be confused with Dorothy Mathews, a younger WB contractee of the same
period.