Biography
Dorris Bowdon was an American actress. She appeared in three films directed by John Ford: Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), in which she played Rosasharn.
Born in Coldwater, Mississippi, she was discovered by a talent scout while at Louisiana State University and signed to a contract with 20th Century Fox. She also appeared in The Moon Is Down (1943).
She married screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, who wrote the screenplay for The Grapes of Wrath, in 1940; they had three children. She retired from acting after her final film.
