Dorothy Hammerstein was born on June 7, 1899 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia as Dorothy Marian Kiaora Blanchard. She was an actress, known for What's Wrong with the Women? (1922), Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of American Music (1985) and Viennese Nights (1930). She was married to Oscar Hammerstein II, Henry I.