Doria March aka Katharine Hamilton Ewing was born in Montreal in 1893. Her parents, Samuel William Ewing and Ethel Rosina (nee Vickers), were members of Montreal's elite merchant class. In fact, her mother was related to the famous Canadian author Susanna Moodie ("Roughing It in the Bush" (1852). "Doria" married another member of a prominent Montreal family, Henry Bernard Davis, in 1914. Following her divorce from Henry Davis, she married Donald Deeks in 1923 and settled in England where she began her film career. She had two children, Patrick (b. 1915) and Pamela (b. 1917) and passed away in 1974.