Dorinda Clifton (1928-2009) was born in Los Angeles in 1928. The daughter of Hollywood movie director Elmer Clifton, she began her acting career early on in life. When she was 17 years old, she was cast by Columbia to star in The Girl of the Limberlost, a film based on the novel by Gene Stratton-Porter. Although the movie was expected to be a hit, it garnered little public attention, and led to the downfall of Clifton’s acting career.
In the 1950s, Clifton turned her focus to raising her three sons, eventually moving to Brownsville, OR. There, she became a successful writer and was very active in the artist community on the West Coast. Her memoir, Woman In The Water: A Memoir Of Growing Up In Hollywoodland, was published in 2005. Clifton died on February 18, 2009 in Brownsville.
