Despite her mother not wishing for her to enter show-business,[1] Stone entered the industry at an early age and in July, 1921, was thrown and kicked by a pony she rode in the second annual circus and Wild West show of the Lights Club, an organization composed of theatrical people living on Long Island.

[5] Dorothy’s Broadway debut was in 1923 in Jerome Kern’s Stepping Stones in which she played the character of Roughette Hood among a cast which included her father, Fred Stone (as Peter Plug), Oscar Ragland (as Otto DeWolfe), and Jack Whiting (as Captain Paul).

The headline of the review by Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times read "Dorothy Stone Captivates as Dancer and Singer.

"[10] With her husband, Charles Collins, Dorothy appeared in the musical comedy Sea Legs (1937), which got bad notices.

"[11] She played Essie in the 1945 revival of You Can't Take It with You in which her father (at age 70) appeared as Martin Vanderhof, and her husband, Charles Collins, as Boris Kolenkhov.

[citation needed] Her other film credits include: In 1931, she married her dancing partner, Charles Collins, in London.