Dorothy Page (actress)

[2] Page was chosen by the Curtis Publishing Company in the 1920s as a model for a Saturday Evening Post cover.

[citation needed] Page tried out for the "Youth of America" in a singing contest hosted by Paul Whiteman, and won.

Her first film was Manhattan Blue, starring opposite Ricardo Cortez, which saw moderate success and placed a spotlight on her talent as a singer and an actress.

In late 1938, Grand National Pictures announced its intention to do a series of cowboy based films utilizing a "Singing Cowgirl".

[6] Following the failure of the three "singing cowgirl" films, and the end of Grand National Pictures, Page retired from acting.

[citation needed] In one of Columbo's episodes ("Ashes to Ashes", Season 10 Episode 12), she may have been portrayed in the character of Dorothea Page, the deceased silent film star from whom Patrick McGoohan (in his role as Eric Prince, funeral director to the stars) stole a valuable diamond off her deceased body.

Portraying her in this episode as a silent movie star may have been to show the way society in the late 1930s wanted to silence the "Singing Cowgirl".