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Dorothy Dalton

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
50

Gender
Female

Birthday
September 21, 1893 (132 years old)

Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Dorothy Dalton

Biography

From Wikipedia

Dorothy Dalton (September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972) was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago, Terre Haute, Indiana and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was working in Hollywood.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dalton made her movie debut in 1914 in Pierre of the Plains, co-starring Edgar Selwyn, followed by the lead role in Across the Pacific that same year. In 1915, she appeared with William S. Hart in The Disciple. This production came before she left Triangle Film Corporation and was signed to Thomas Harper Ince Studios. While Ince meant to cast her in mature roles, she wanted to play ingénues and claimed she couldn't play women. Her role in The Disciple, however, in which she attracts a man who is not her husband, led to her being cast as a vamp. Her vamp, however, was untraditional in that she vamped unconsciously; in the words of Kay Anthony, "Not because she wanted people to think she was a full-fledged shatterer of hearts before the camera did she make pulses beat hard and fast, but because she couldn't help it: 'I guess I just must have been born that way!' Ince's company was operative from 1919 until his death in 1924. With Ince, she played in The Price Mark and Love Letters, both co-starring William Conklin. Dalton also performed with Rudolph Valentino in Moran of the Lady Letty (1922), and with H.B. Warner in The Flame of the Yukon (1917) and The Vagabond Prince (1916).

Dalton's stage career included performances as Chrysis in Aphrodite by Morris Gest in 1920 and on Broadway in The Country Wife.

Known For

Acting

1934The Camera Speaksas Self (archive footage)
1924The Lone Wolfas Lucy Shannon
1923Law of the Lawlessas Sahande
1923Fog Boundas Gale Brenon
1923Dark Secretsas Ruth Rutherford
1922The Siren Callas Charlotte Woods
1922On the High Seasas Leone Deveraux
1922A Trip to Paramountownas Self
1922The Woman Who Walked Aloneas The Honorable Iris Champneys
1922The Crimson Challengeas Tharon Last
1922Moran of the Lady Lettyas Moran Letty Sternersen
1921Fool's Paradiseas Poll Patchouli
1921Behind Masksas Jeanne Mesurier
1921The Idol of the Northas Colette Brissac
1920Half an Houras Lady Lillian Garson
1920Guilty of Loveas Thelma Miller
1920The Dark Mirroras Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
1920Black Is Whiteas Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
1919His Wife's Friendas Lady Marion Grimwood
1919L'apacheas Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
1919The Market of Soulsas Helen Armes
1919Other Men's Wivesas Cynthia Brock
1919The Lady of Red Butteas Faro Fan
1919The Homebreakeras Mary Marbury
1919Extravaganceas Helen Douglas
1919Hard Boiledas Corinne Melrose
1918Quicksandas Mary Bowen
1918Vive la France!as Genevieve Bouchette
1918Green Eyesas Shirley Hunter
1918The Kaiser's Shadowas Paula Harris
1918Tyrant Fearas Allaine Grandet
1918Love Meas Maida Madison
1917Love Lettersas Eileen Rodney
1917The Price Markas Paula Lee
1917The Flame of the Yukonas Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
1917Wild Winship's Widowas Catherine Winship
1917The Dark Roadas Cleo Morrison
1917Back of the Manas Ellen Horton
1917Chicken Caseyas Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
1917The Weaker Sexas Ruth Tilden
1916A Gamble in Soulsas
1916The Vagabond Princeas Lola ''Fluffy''
1916The Jungle Childas Ollante
1916The Captive Godas Tecolote
1916Civilization's Childas Ellen McManus
1916The Raidersas Dorothy Haldeman
1916The Three Musketeersas Queen Anne
1915The Discipleas Mary Houston
1914Across the Pacificas Elsie Escott
1914Pierre of the Plainsas Jen Galbraith

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