Dorothy Cooper (née Wright) was an award-winning American screenwriter and TV writer active in the 1940s through the 1970s.
Dorothy was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, to Harry Wright and Jessie Christy.
[1][2][3] 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.
[1] She was married three times: first to G. Leslie Cooper, second to Paul Cerf, and third to Robert Foote.