Trivia

Played a bootlegger on the first episode of The Waltons (1972).

A museum has been created in her honor at the house her husband, Howard Lindsay bought for her. The museum is is in Stanton, New Jersey, her private retreat from Broadway and Hollywood.

Gave her first appearance on the stage at the Minot Theatre in North Dakota in May of 1921, giving recitations with The Southern Belles' Concert Party.

One of her hobbies was collecting music boxes.

The theater at Dickinson (N.D.) State University is named after her. It is the Dorothy Stickney Auditorium.

Her father, Victor Hugo Stickney, was a doctor who made house calls on horseback; he was among the first 10 elected to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Father was Dr. Victor Hugo Stickney and mother Margaret (Hayes).

Attended La Salle Seminary in Auburndale, Massachusetts, and St. Catherine's College, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.

Because she had difficulty reading due to sensitive eyes, she focused on skills like dancing and elocution.

Because of a medical condition, she was unable to go into bright places and spent most of her childhood indoors to protect her sensitive eyes.

She had no children and no immediate family survivors.

One of her later stage roles was as Berthe in the original Broadway run of Pippin from 1972 to 1977. She took over the role in 1973 from Irene Ryan, who died during the run.

Her introduction to reading came from family members who read the classics to her.

On November 16, 1966, Stickney appeared on ABC's Stage 67 anthology program in Stephen Sondheim's macabre television musical Evening Primrose as Mrs. Monday, the leader of the mannequins who come to life every evening in a department store.

In 1979, Stickney published Openings and Closings, a memoir that chronicled her long career as well as her secret battle with stage fright.

She wrote several poems including "You're Not the Type" and "My Dressing Room".

In 1961, she was the second inductee of the North Dakota Roughrider Award.

Because of several eye surgeries, by her teens, Stickney was able to continue her education and pursue a career in the theater.

She was an American film, stage, and television actress, best known for appearing in the long-running Broadway hit Life with Father.