Dorothy Rice

Dorothy Rice, Artist, Actress, Model Education The Art Students League, NYC University of Guadalajara, Mexico Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles Born to a family of artists, Dorothy showed artistic talent from a young age. At 14, she was invited to study at the prestigious Art Students League of New York alongside fashion designer Anne Klein and realist painter Philip Pearlstein. On an evening out with classmates at the legendary nightclub El Morocco, Dorothy was "discovered" by American Vogue photographer John Rawlings and her budding painting career was put on hold to purse modeling. Her modeling career started with pin-up girl and girl-next-door shoots for Earl Moran and Town & Country. It was Christian Dior who catapulted Dorothy into stardom when she was selected as the face of his revolutionary "New Look Collection" for American Vogue. Dorothy remained a top model for eighteen years. In 1953, Esquire did a thirteen-photo spread on Dorothy entitled "The Girl Who Tops the List of the Ten Most Wanted Models." Dorothy transitioned from modeling to acting and appeared in more than 100 plays. It was during this time that Dorothy met and fell in love with her husband, Stanley Chase, who produced "The Threepenny Opera" and the timeless science fiction classic "Colossus: The Forbin Project," among many other Broadway, film and television productions. Dorothy and Stanely moved from New York to Beverly Hills, and Dorothy began acting in television, including appearing in "Fear on Trial" and "Bob Hope Presents." Eventually, Dorothy returned to her true passion, painting. Over the next several decades, she exhibited her artwork in prestigious galleries around the world, and was commissioned to do work internationally, including in Israel, Mexico and Morocco.