Dorothy was born in
Vermillion, South Dakota, to Harry Wright and Jessie Christy. After high school, she attended the University of South Dakota, where she majored in journalism and edited the school's humor magazine,
The Wet Hen. In 1933, after graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, where she got a job working as a telephone operator in Universal City. Four years later, after writing a letter to producer
Van Paul, she was offered a job as an extra and then as an assistant script editor. In 1948, she broke into screenwriting with
On an Island with You and
A Date with Judy. == Selected works ==