Only daughter of Loren G. Disney Sr. and Nettie Garrett Vansant.
Wife of Milton Angus MacKaye
Mother of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
Dorothy was an American writer and Columnist. She was born in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1903 on November 13 (Friday the 13th) and was educated at Barnard College, New York. She married Milton MacKaye, and worked as a stenographer, copy writer, journalist and night club hostess before becoming a full time writer.
Author of nine mystery novels
Starting in 1953 she wrote under the byline Dorothy Cameron Disney, and was something of a pioneer both as an advice columnist and a marriage counselor, and for generations of readers her column (The Ladies' Home Journal - Can This Marriage be Saved) -- entertaining, occasionally titillating, sometimes a little pedantic -- served as a spyglass into the lives of anonymous strangers
The column, which first appeared in January 1953, continues today. In her hands it was devoted each month to the travails of a married couple. Based on interviews and then written largely in dialogue, as if in the voices of the troubled partners, the columns dealt with issues like jealousy, infidelity, money problems and, increasingly as time went on and moral strictures relaxed, sexual problems.
"The columns seem to represent a chronicle of the many changes in the institution of marriage -- and the fascination it holds," she said in a retrospective essay written for the 100th anniversary issue of The Ladies' Home Journal in January 1984. Looking back on her three decades as a columnist, she concluded that of all marital problems, "the single greatest pitfall of all times" is the inability of husband and wife to communicate. " 'He (or she) never listens' is universal," she wrote.
Wife of Milton Angus MacKaye
Mother of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
Dorothy was an American writer and Columnist. She was born in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1903 on November 13 (Friday the 13th) and was educated at Barnard College, New York. She married Milton MacKaye, and worked as a stenographer, copy writer, journalist and night club hostess before becoming a full time writer.
Author of nine mystery novels
Starting in 1953 she wrote under the byline Dorothy Cameron Disney, and was something of a pioneer both as an advice columnist and a marriage counselor, and for generations of readers her column (The Ladies' Home Journal - Can This Marriage be Saved) -- entertaining, occasionally titillating, sometimes a little pedantic -- served as a spyglass into the lives of anonymous strangers
The column, which first appeared in January 1953, continues today. In her hands it was devoted each month to the travails of a married couple. Based on interviews and then written largely in dialogue, as if in the voices of the troubled partners, the columns dealt with issues like jealousy, infidelity, money problems and, increasingly as time went on and moral strictures relaxed, sexual problems.
"The columns seem to represent a chronicle of the many changes in the institution of marriage -- and the fascination it holds," she said in a retrospective essay written for the 100th anniversary issue of The Ladies' Home Journal in January 1984. Looking back on her three decades as a columnist, she concluded that of all marital problems, "the single greatest pitfall of all times" is the inability of husband and wife to communicate. " 'He (or she) never listens' is universal," she wrote.
Only daughter of Loren G. Disney Sr. and Nettie Garrett Vansant.
Wife of Milton Angus MacKaye
Mother of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
Dorothy was an American writer and Columnist. She was born in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1903 on November 13 (Friday the 13th) and was educated at Barnard College, New York. She married Milton MacKaye, and worked as a stenographer, copy writer, journalist and night club hostess before becoming a full time writer.
Author of nine mystery novels
Starting in 1953 she wrote under the byline Dorothy Cameron Disney, and was something of a pioneer both as an advice columnist and a marriage counselor, and for generations of readers her column (The Ladies' Home Journal - Can This Marriage be Saved) -- entertaining, occasionally titillating, sometimes a little pedantic -- served as a spyglass into the lives of anonymous strangers
The column, which first appeared in January 1953, continues today. In her hands it was devoted each month to the travails of a married couple. Based on interviews and then written largely in dialogue, as if in the voices of the troubled partners, the columns dealt with issues like jealousy, infidelity, money problems and, increasingly as time went on and moral strictures relaxed, sexual problems.
"The columns seem to represent a chronicle of the many changes in the institution of marriage -- and the fascination it holds," she said in a retrospective essay written for the 100th anniversary issue of The Ladies' Home Journal in January 1984. Looking back on her three decades as a columnist, she concluded that of all marital problems, "the single greatest pitfall of all times" is the inability of husband and wife to communicate. " 'He (or she) never listens' is universal," she wrote.
Wife of Milton Angus MacKaye
Mother of:
William "Bill" Ross MacKaye
"My mother's ashes and my father's are buried next to a glacial rock under a maple tree that Perky [Grandmother] planted around 1950 in the yard of our house in Guilford, CT"
Dorothy was an American writer and Columnist. She was born in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1903 on November 13 (Friday the 13th) and was educated at Barnard College, New York. She married Milton MacKaye, and worked as a stenographer, copy writer, journalist and night club hostess before becoming a full time writer.
Author of nine mystery novels
Starting in 1953 she wrote under the byline Dorothy Cameron Disney, and was something of a pioneer both as an advice columnist and a marriage counselor, and for generations of readers her column (The Ladies' Home Journal - Can This Marriage be Saved) -- entertaining, occasionally titillating, sometimes a little pedantic -- served as a spyglass into the lives of anonymous strangers
The column, which first appeared in January 1953, continues today. In her hands it was devoted each month to the travails of a married couple. Based on interviews and then written largely in dialogue, as if in the voices of the troubled partners, the columns dealt with issues like jealousy, infidelity, money problems and, increasingly as time went on and moral strictures relaxed, sexual problems.
"The columns seem to represent a chronicle of the many changes in the institution of marriage -- and the fascination it holds," she said in a retrospective essay written for the 100th anniversary issue of The Ladies' Home Journal in January 1984. Looking back on her three decades as a columnist, she concluded that of all marital problems, "the single greatest pitfall of all times" is the inability of husband and wife to communicate. " 'He (or she) never listens' is universal," she wrote.
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