Dorothy Deborah Wegman was raised in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.

[8] Her last show was the 1928 Ziegfeld production Rosalie, which she from which she "retired permanently, thanks to the stork and the increasing responsibilities of the domestic life she was eager to adapt.".

[9] Wegman did, however, publish two novels under the name Dorshka Raphaelson: Glorified (1930), based on her time as a dancer, and Morning Song (1948), which was also autobiographical.

[15] She died in 2005, aged 100 years, in New York; at the time of her death, she was believed to be the second-to-last surviving Ziegfeld Girl.

[3] Her husband's papers, archived at the University of Illinois, includes a taped interview with Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson.