Early Life
Doris May Green was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925. Her mother, Ann Meltzer, who was of Russian Jewish descent, raised Roberts in the New York City borough of the Bronx with the assistance of her own parents, after her husband, whose name may have been Larry Green, deserted the family.
Doris' stepfather, whose surname she took as her own, was Chester H. Roberts, whose name is included with Ann and Doris Green in the 1940 census as "lodger". Chester and Ann Roberts operated the Z.L. Rosenfield Agency, a stenographic service catering to playwrights and actors.
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