Dorothy Dalton
48 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 21, 1893
- Died
- Apr 13, 1972 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
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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.
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Known for
Dorothy Dalton: movies and TV shows
Acting (48)
- 1924 The Lone Wolf
as Lucy Shannon
- 1923 Law of the Lawless
as Sahande
- 1923 Fog Bound
as Gale Brenon
- 1923 Dark Secrets
as Ruth Rutherford
- 1922 On the High Seas
as Leone Deveraux
- 1922 The Siren Call
as Charlotte Woods
- 1922 The Woman Who Walked Alone
as The Honorable Iris Champneys
- 1922 The Crimson Challenge
as Tharon Last
- 1922 Moran of the Lady Letty
as Moran Letty Sternersen
- 1921 Fool's Paradise
as Poll Patchouli
- 1921 Behind Masks
as Jeanne Mesurier
- 1921 The Idol of the North
as Colette Brissac
- 1920 Half an Hour
as Lady Lillian Garson
- 1920 Guilty of Love
as Thelma Miller
- 1920 The Dark Mirror
as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
- 1920 Black Is White
as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
- 1919 His Wife's Friend
as Lady Marion Grimwood
- 1919 L'apache
as Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
- 1919 The Market of Souls
as Helen Armes
- 1919 Other Men's Wives
as Cynthia Brock
- 1919 The Lady of Red Butte
as Faro Fan
- 1919 The Homebreaker
as Mary Marbury
- 1919 Extravagance
as Helen Douglas
- 1919 Hard Boiled
as Corinne Melrose
- 1918 Quicksand
as Mary Bowen
- 1918 Vive la France!
as Genevieve Bouchette
- 1918 Green Eyes
as Shirley Hunter
- 1918 The Kaiser's Shadow
as Paula Harris
- 1918 Tyrant Fear
as Allaine Grandet
- 1918 Love Me
as Maida Madison
- 1917 Love Letters
as Eileen Rodney
- 1917 The Price Mark
as Paula Lee
- 1917 The Flame of the Yukon
as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
- 1917 Wild Winship's Widow
as Catherine Winship
- 1917 The Dark Road
as Cleo Morrison
- 1917 Back of the Man
as Ellen Horton
- 1917 Chicken Casey
as Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
- 1917 The Weaker Sex
as Ruth Tilden
- 1916
- 1916 The Vagabond Prince
as Lola ''Fluffy''
- 1916 The Jungle Child
as Ollante
- 1916 The Captive God
as Tecolote
- 1916 Civilization's Child
as Ellen McManus
- 1916 The Raiders
as Dorothy Haldeman
- 1916 The Three Musketeers
as Queen Anne
- 1915 The Disciple
as Mary Houston
- 1914 Across the Pacific
as Elsie Escott
- 1914 Pierre of the Plains
as Jen Galbraith
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1934
- 1922