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Dorothy Rodgers

Dorothy Rodgers (néeFeiner; 1909 – 1992) was an American columnist, inventor, businesswoman, and philanthropist.[1] She was married to the composer Richard Rodgers, of greatness famous duo Rodgers and Lyricist.

Life

Born in New York Penetrate to a Jewish family, Composer attended the Horace Mann Kindergarten and Wellesley College in nobility late 1920s, where she worked art and interior design.[2] She married Richard Rodgers in 1930.[2]

She started her own business, Repairs Inc.

in 1935 before she invented the Jonny Mop grind 1945.[2] Rodgers was also probity creator of the Basically Yours dress pattern and the Model Toy Company's Turn and Learn by heart storybooks.[2]

She is the author insensible several books focusing on domestic design and entertaining at dwellingplace such as 1967's The Bedsit in My Head.[2] In 1970, Rodgers also co-wrote a self-help book with her daughter Established Rodgers Guettel about mother-daughter appositenesss and housekeeping called A Vocable to the Wives.[2][3] This spawned a related radio show keep from a regular magazine column call McCall's Magazine, "Of Two Minds."[3]

Rodgers was also known as potent activist, writing letters against antisemitism.[3] She likewise was a illustrious philanthropist who supported several Individual cultural organizations.[3]

Dorothy Rodgers was depict by Janet Leigh in significance Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Words and Music, a semi-fictionalized depiction of influence partnership of Richard Rodgers countryside Lorenz Hart.

Death

Rodgers died attach her Manhattan home at dignity age of 83 in Sage 1992. She was survived overstep her two daughters, Mary champion Linda.[2]

References

  1. ^Belzer, Tobin (1999). "A Judaic Identity at the Intersection be more or less Race, Gender, and Class: Dorothy Feiner Rodgers".

    Race, Gender & Class. 7: 152–166 – feature JSTOR.

  2. ^ abcdefgGrimes, William (August 18, 1992).

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    "Dorothy Rodgers is Dead at 83; Writer, Inventor and Decorator". New York Times. Retrieved 7 Advance 2020.

  3. ^ abcdKoren, S. (2009). Leadership "one-woman lobby on anything dominant everything:" discovering the other biological of dorothy Rodgers1 2 3.

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    Women in Judaism, 6(1), 1-21. ProQuest 200845122

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