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Dorothy Michelle Provine (January 20, 1935 – April 25, 2010) was an American singer, dancer and actress. [1] Born in 1935 in Deadwood, South Dakota , she grew up in Seattle , Washington, and was hired in 1958 by Warner Bros. , after which she first starred in The Bonnie Parker Story and played many roles in TV series.
The Roaring 20s is an American drama television series starring Rex Reason, Donald May and Dorothy Provine that was broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from October 15, 1960, until January 20, 1962.
Who's Minding the Mint? is a 1967 American crime comedy film directed by Howard Morris and starring Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Walter Brennan and Milton Berle.The screenplay, concerning a group of individuals who break into a United States Treasury building to print currency, was written by R. S. Allen and Harvey Bullock.
The Bonnie Parker Story is a 1958 crime film directed by William Witney.The movie is loosely based on the life of Bonnie Parker, a well-known outlaw of the 1930s.The film stars Dorothy Provine as Parker; Parker's actual historical partner, Clyde Barrow, is renamed Guy Darrow for the film's story, and played by Jack Hogan.
The principal cast features Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, and Jonathan Winters. The film marked the first time Kramer directed a comedy, though he had produced the comedy So This Is New York in 1948.
Connors said that Dorothy Provine was whisked to Rome for a week, returning in a glamorous makeover. [10] While Connors portrayed a Sean Connery-type American superspy, Dorothy Provine played her role with an upper-class British accent similar to Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward of the Thunderbirds TV series.
Writing in AllMovie, critic Hal Erickson described the film as "tr[ying] to be a satire of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, a slapstick comedy, a marital farce, and a sci-fi epic all in one, but it never really jells," further noting that "ill with rheumatic fever during shooting, Costello seems more solemn and reserved than usual."
One of his principal co-stars on The Roaring 20s was Dorothy Provine. In 1962, May made a television pilot in which he played a physician, Paul Larson, in the episode "County General" that was screened as an episode of ABC's drama series, Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Maxwell.