She acted in two movies released in 1915, The Cub and Over Night, but she became famous for writing plays and novels and then turning them into screenplays.

When asked about her writing process, she remarked to the Los Angeles Times in 1926: "You must think with your heart and feel with your head.

For the majority of people want to have their hearts excited and their minds let alone when they come into the world of low lights and soft music of a motion-picture theater.

Dorothy worked with many famous, leading stars and was one of the top writers at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

[2] She married Maurice Barber, the general manager of the Cinema Finance Company, in 1923.