Red-haired American actress, later known as Erin O'Kelly and Erin Selwyn. She was a Chicago beauty queen before coming to Hollywood in 1941. In the early 1940s, she was an on-and-off item with Tom Brown, but ultimately in 1944, she married Lt. Russell Selwyn (1919-2005), the son of actress Ruth Selwyn and stepson of producer/director/Goldwyn Pictures co-founder Edgar Selwyn. They had three children and remained together until Dorothy/Erin's death in 1997. Erin and Russell Selwyn are buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Online sources give her name as Dorothy Kelly and her information as: b. Dorothy Helen Kelly on 11 February 1918 in San Francisco, California; d. 28 November 1969 in La Jolla, California. This information applies to a different woman.
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