[1] Crawford won a scholarship to the Albert Street Conservatorium located in East Melbourne, where she was to study voice and piano.
[1] Crawford became one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's first three female announcers in Victoria in March 1942, though she had to keep secret her 1931 marriage and the birth of her child because of the ABC's policy not to employ married women.
She served as producer on numerous radio series including a dramatisation of the life of Dame Nellie Melba, which was broadcast in 1946 and featured the soprano Glenda Raymond.
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Dorothy Crawford was executive producer and involved in the creation and production of significant pieces of Australian television history such as Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, All the Rivers Run, Cop Shop, and The Sullivans.
On 23 December, she married radio producer Roland Denniston Strong, with congressional honours, they had no children, and divorced some 20 years later in 1968.
[1] From 1986, the Australian Writers' Guild presented an annual Dorothy Crawford Award for outstanding contribution to the profession.