Everything about Dorothy Collins totally explained
Dorothy Collins (
November 18 1926 –
July 21 1994) was a
Canadian-born
singer and
actress.
Born
Marjorie Chandler in
Windsor, Ontario, Collins shot to fame as the lead vocalist on the long-running
television series
Your Hit Parade, on which she sang (and often acted out in costume) the popular songs of the day. Additional TV credits include
The Steve Allen Show, the
Bell Telephone Hour,
The Hollywood Palace, and
Candid Camera, as both a participant in the stunts and co-host with
Allen Funt.
In 1971, Collins made her
Broadway debut in
Stephen Sondheim's
Follies, portraying a one-time
Ziegfeld-style
showgirl trapped in a disappointing marriage. Her dramatic rendition of "Losing My Mind" routinely stopped the show and was one of the production's highlights.
Her performance won her a
Tony Award nomination as Best Actress in a Musical, but she lost to co-star, fellow Canadian-born actress
Alexis Smith; the two actresses died within a year of each other.
Collins was married to
Raymond Scott from 1952 until their divorce in 1965. They had two daughters, Deborah and Elizabeth. In 1966, she married actor/singer
Ron Holgate, with whom she'd a daughter, Melissa. The two eventually divorced.
She died from
respiratory distress as a result of a long-standing pulmonary disease (
asthma) at her home in upstate
Watervliet, New York (it was erroneously reported in
IMDb that she died in
New York City), survived by her three daughters.
It is unclear if she ever took out
U.S. citizenship.
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