- Was a tireless Red Cross worker for years in the 1950s.
- For her last film Loan Shark (1952) co-starring George Raft, she replaced an ailing (and alcoholic) Gail Russell at the very last minute.
- During her salad years, she modeled for advertising and appeared on the covers of "Cosmopolitan", "McCalls" and "Esquire".
- In 1959 she was an observer for the US to the World Federation of United Nations Association meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
- "Photoplay" named her one of Hollywood's 10 Most Promising Actresses and awarded her their 1952 "Gold Key." She actually hated Hollywood and moved to New York to work in television, never making another film.
- She won (from among 20,000 contestants) a movie contract at Columbia Pictures when a newspaperman friend entered her picture in Columbia's "National Cover Girl" contest in 1944. Instead of taking the contract, she studied drama at the Cleveland Playhouse and in New York because she felt she "wasn't ready." A few years later, Columbia signed her and she made her debut in Gunfighters (1947) with Randolph Scott.
- Last movie was as Jane to Lex Barker's Tarzan in Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952) in 1952.
- Received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Western Reserve University where she was voted 'Homecoming Queen."
- While living in New York, Eleanor Roosevelt appointed her to the American Association of the United Nations' speakers committee.
- Following her retirement from Hollywood, she guest-starred in a few TV series and and was a game-show panelist.
- Married twice and had a son named Douglas.
- Supporting actress in US films of the late '40s and early '50s.
- Not to be confused with another actress named Dorothy Hart, who did several nude scenes and photo shoots.
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