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- Birth nameRachel Rice Dool
- Height5′ (1.52 m)
- Ray Dooley was born on October 30, 1888 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Honeymoon Lane (1931) and A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair (1917). She was married to Eddie Dowling. She died on January 28, 1984 in East Hampton, New York, USA.
- SpouseEddie Dowling(1911 - 1976) (his death, 2 children)
- Father, Robert Rogers Dooley, was a circus performer. The family surname was "Dool" until it was changed to "Dooley".
- Dooley's husband, Eddie Dowling, was a stage actor, playwright, director, songwriter and set designer. He appeared on Broadway from 1919-1956, perhaps most notably as Tom Wingfield in the Broadway debut production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie".
- Eddie Dowling and Ray Dooley's son, John Graham "Jack" Dowling, was killed in a plane crash in Brazil in 1955 when he was Time Magazine's Buenos Aires bureau chief. Their daughter, Mary Maxine Dowling Clark, and three grandchildren survived Dooley, who had survived Dowling.
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