Dotty Mack

[1] Mack was born in Price Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the Mother of Mercy High School, graduating in 1947.

[1] She then worked as a human mannequin in a department store window in Cincinnati, and as a salesperson,[1] before being employed as a record librarian at WCPO-AM radio in March 1949.

[1] She lip-synched to songs by singers including Rosemary Clooney,[1][3] Doris Day,[1] Dinah Shore,[1] Patti Page,[3] and Eartha Kitt.

[5] TV host Faye Emerson said of her show in 1954, she is "extremely talented ... She can be cute as a kitten's ear, romantic as rose petals, or sultry as absinthe ... She is a good actress and her sense of timing is nothing short of miraculous.

In 1961 her son Jeffrey, was born and she became a full time mother, but she still mixed socially with Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.

From a publicity shot with Dick van Dyke