Career
She was discovered as a talent agent picked her out of a crowd of Beatles fans at Kennedy Airport. Her sole screen cr is for the 1966 French film Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, in which she had the starring role of a supermodel. As a model McGowan appeared on countless covers of Vogue, Harper"s Bazaar, Elle, Glamour, and other publications in the 1960s.
She was photographed by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Francesco Scavullo, and others
McGowan was one of photographer William Klein"s favorite models. After the release of his film Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, she disappeared from public view and apparently neither acted nor modeled again, according to Klein.
In 2007 Dorothy Dorot was living in Mamaroneck, New New York
