Miss Dorothy Brown

Dorothy Carnegie Mellon Vanderbilt Rosental (nee Brown, born van Hossmere): Is the sister of Jimmy, and stepdaughter of Muzzy van Hossmere.

Biography
Dorothy comes into the story as a girl who came to New York from California. She boards at The Hotel Priscilla, sharing a room with her best friend Millie Dillmount. She is eventually drugged by the manager of the hotel and sold into White slavery. Fortunately though, an undercover cop, rescues Dorothy before she's shipped off from the hotel. She falls in love with the cop and marries him, much to her puppy lover's dismay. It is later revealed that she is the descendant of a rich industries founder.

Trivia

 * Her best friend becomes her sister-in-law
 * Her brother works for the Yankies
 * She encounters her brother several times, yet acts as if distant from him
 * Millie assumed she was Jimmy's lover when she saw Jimmy leaving Dorothy's room
 * Unlike her brother, Dorothy kept her first name and only changed her last name when she left home
 * In the movie version, starring Julie Andrews, Dorothy marries Mr. Graydon