# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-kilgallen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:00:45.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-kilgallen"
name: "Dorothy Kilgallen"
slug: "dorothy-kilgallen"
description: "Dorothy Mae Kilgallen was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1938, she began her newspaper column \"The Voice of Broadway\", which was eventually syndicated to more than 140 papers. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, continuing in the role until her death."
tagline: "American journalist, television personality (1913-1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_Kilgallen_1952.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1913-07-03"
deathDate: "1965-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.44534666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump