Claire Dodd: Claire Dodd. Actress: Roberta. She was born Dorothy Arlene Dodd on December 29, 1911 in Baxter, Iowa when her Little Rock, Arkansas parents were on a trip to Des Moines. Her father was a doctor who abandoned her and her mother before she was ten years old. Her mother suffered from tuberculosis and Dorothy was forced to support her. She went to New York at the age of fifteen, lied...
Known For: Roberta (Sophie Teale), The Case of the Curious Bride (Della Street), The Case of the Velvet Claws (Della Street), Secret of the Chateau (Julie Verlaine)