Dorothy Coburn

Dorothy Montana Coburn (June 8, 1905 – May 15, 1978) was an American film actress who appeared in a number of early Laurel and Hardy silents.

[2] Her documented film repertoire consisted of 16 silent short subjects for the Hal Roach studios, and she appeared in scores of films as horseback-stuntwoman opposite such stars as Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea,[citation needed] and as a stand-in for Ginger Rogers in several of her dancing films with Fred Astaire.

[citation needed] After leaving the movie business in 1936, she found employment as a receptionist for an insurance company.

[1] She is interred in Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Before Coburn's death in 1978, the couple lived in Rancho Palos Verdes.