Dee Green

Dee Green
Born	Dolores Mae Greene (1911-04-16)April 16, 1911 Rockford, Illinois, U.S.
💀Died	April 25, 1985(1985-04-25) (aged 68) Rockford, Illinois, U.S.April 25, 1985(1985-04-25) (aged 68)
Resting place	Greenwood Cemetery, Rockford, Illinois
🎓 Alma mater	Rockford College
💼 Occupation	Actress, music teacher
📆 Years active	1945–1984

Dee Green (born Dolores Mae Greene; November 15, 1916—April 24, 1985) was an American actress and music teacher, best known for her work in the Three Stooges shorts produced by Columbia Pictures in the 1940’s.

Early Life

Dolores Greene was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois where she graduated from Rockford High School in 1934. She was the elder of two children born to Roy and Maude (née Hopkins) Greene. Her younger brother Richard Wallace Greene was born when she was 6 years old.

Film Career

After graduating from Rockford College in 1938, she was performing in summer stock in Grand Detour, Illinois where she was spotted and approached by Stacy Keach Sr of Universal Studios who arranged a screen test for her. A contract with Columbia Pictures followed, and she appeared in a number of shorts between 1945 and 1949. Billed as “Dee Green”, she performed in only three shorts with the Three Stooges, but through usage of recycled stock footage, Green appeared in a total of five of their short subject films. In each, she portrayed the female foil, besotted by Shemp’s character. Her first and most memorable performance was in 1947’s Brideless Groom as Fanny Dinkelmeyer, the music student hopelessly in love with her music professor Shemp for whom she delivers an exuberant and decidedly off-key rendition of “Voices of Spring”. It is her character whom Shemp ends up marrying in the midst of the mayhem caused by the mass of women who intitially rejected his proposal before learning of his inheritance, while the Justice of the Peace manages to utter the iconic line "hold hands, you lovebirds" as he's repeatedly pummeled by the women. Green's footage in this short was reused in its entirety in Husbands Beware nine years later, well after she left Hollywood.

Post Career

After leaving Hollywood, Green moved to New York, becoming a member of the Goldovsky Opera Theater and studying voice with Joseph Regneas. She later earned a master’s degree in music from the University of Illinois, then returned to her hometown of Rockford where she taught music in the Rockford school system from 1961 until her retirement in 1984.

Death

Green was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of Rockford, Illinois. She never married or had any children. She died of cancer on April 25, 1985, having been predeceased by her parents and brother, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

Filmography

• Honeymoon Ahead (1945, Short) – Girl with umbrella (uncredited)
• Mr. Wright Goes Wrong (1946, Short) (uncredited)
• Brideless Groom (1947, Short) – Fanny Dinkelmeyer
• Billie Gets Her Man (1948, Short) 2nd maternity nurse (uncredited)
• I'm a Monkey's Uncle (1948, Short) – Baggie
• Mummy's Dummies (1948, Short) – Princess Fatima
• Radio Riot (1949, Short) (uncredited)
• Stone Age Romeos (1955, Short) – Baggie (archive footage)
• Husbands Beware (1956, Short) – Fanny Dinkelmeyer (archive footage)

External links

• Dee Green on IMDb
• Dee Green at threestooges.net
• Dee Green at Find a Grave

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