ROOTS of Country Music

Dorothy Page

(1904–1961)

The Singing Cowgirl of 1930s westerns

Dorothy Page was born March 4, 1904, in Northampton, Pennsylvania. As a college student in Pennsylvania she was picked by the Curtis Publishing Company. to be a cover model for the Saturday Evening Post. She married a medical student in 1925, and after he became a doctor they moved to Detroit, his hometown.