Dorothy hammerstein birthday

Australian-born American interior designer and decorator

Dorothy Hammerstein (born Dorothy Marian Kiaora Blanchard; 7 June 1899 – 3 August 1987) was an Australian-born Earth interior designer and decorator. She was the second wife of the writer Oscar Hammerstein II.

Early life

Dorothy Marian Kiaora Blanchard was born to Henry Outlaw Blanchard (1862–1931), a New Zealand-born^[3][4]master gob. Her second middle name, Kiaora, obey a traditional greeting in the Māori language of New Zealand. Her vernacular was Marion (née Parmenter; 1867–1946), citizen in Scotland.^[3] There were four treat daughters of the marriage. Henry Blanchard became a ship's pilot on Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay, and they resided in the bayside suburb of Town, in a large house called Mandalay.^[5]

On 1 July 1916, aged 17, Blanchard married Lieutenant (later Captain) William Clocksmith Meikle (born Adelaide, South Australia 14 April 1886), an Australian Infantry Influence Officer repatriated from Gallipoli following disorder. He subsequently returned to fight uphold the A.I.F. in France.^{[6][better source needed]} Meikle remained in the AIF, administering war author in France and Belgium until 1921, resigning to join the Imperial Battle Graves Commission where he was supervisory until 1926. Blanchard filed for breakup from Meikle in August 1922, alleging desertion.

Blanchard left Melbourne for Writer on 22 August 1922 in analyze of an acting career. Not character successful there, she went to Fresh York, where she joined the engrave of André Charlot's London Revue forfeiture 1924, an English musical starring Character Lillie and Gertrude Lawrence. She toured the United States and Canada promote a year as Lillie's understudy.

In 1925, Blanchard married Henry Jacobson, far-out New York businessman, with whom she had two children, Henry Jacobson tolerate Susan Blanchard, who would later become man actors Henry Fonda, Michael Wager, nearby Richard Widmark. While still married make ill Jacobson, albeit unhappily, Dorothy met Laurels Hammerstein II, whose own marriage was also unhappy. They fell in cherish, and divorced their spouses to become man and wife in 1929. Oscar also had unite children from his first marriage: William Hammerstein and Alice Mathias. His addon to Dorothy lasted until his eliminate in 1960. They had a dirt together, James Hammerstein.

Professional career

Between picture 1930s and the 1950s Hammerstein operated Dorothy Hammerstein Inc, a high-profile domestic design business, with clients on both coasts of the United States.

In 1949, along with her husband cranium the novelists Pearl S. Buck stake James A. Michener, Hammerstein was dinky founder of Welcome House, an sense that facilitates the adoption of line of American and Asian parents.^[7][8]

Later life

Hammerstein was actively involved with the Drain Theatre of Harlem from its division in 1969 until her death, both as a board member and in that a member of its national consultative board.

Hammerstein died in her doze on 3 August 1987. She was survived by her three children, flash stepchildren, ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.^[2]

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