Dorothy DeBorba

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Dorothy "Echo" DeBorba

Born Dorothy Adelle DeBorba
March 28, 1925 (1925-03-28) (age 83)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Film actress
Years active 1930-1933

Dorothy Adelle DeBorba (b. March 28, 1925) is a former American 1930s child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1930 to 1933. She is of Portuguese Azorean ancestry.[1]

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[edit] Our Gang

DeBorba was with Our Gang for three years, beginning her career at age five in 1930s Pups Is Pups. Quickly, Dorothy became an audience favorite with her trademark curls and elaborate hair bows. Her mother made those bows and would spend two hours every night brushing and putting Dorothy's hair up in curlers. Of course, her natural energy and mischievousness added to her appeal. Although she stated "...the boys (in the series) were given all the best lines", in Love Business, Dorothy delivered some of the funniest lines in the entire series: Chubby is practicing his lines on a cutout of Greta Garbo in front of a movie house:

Chubby: Oh, my dear, hear the pleas in my whispers.
Dorothy: Oh, my dear, hear the fleas in my whiskers.
Chubby: If love is like a rose I will nip my rose in the bud.
Dorothy: If love is like a rose I will stick my nose in the mud.
Chubby: My heart is filled with joy. I want to trip and dance.
Dorothy; My heart is filled with joy. I want to rip my pants.

[edit] DeBorba today

DeBorba is one of the few living Our Gangers from the original series. Other surviving members are Jackie Cooper, Dickie Moore, Shirley Jean Rickert, Jean Darling, Mickey Gubitosi, Jerry Tucker, and Jackie Lynn Taylor.

DeBorba is a native of Livermore, California (San Francisco Bay area), where she still resides today.

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  1. ^ Distinguished Americans & Canadians of Portuguese Descent

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