Dorothy Dalton

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

September 21, 1893

Died

April 13, 1972 (age 78)

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

Filmography

1934FilmThe Camera Speaksas Self (archive footage)1924FilmThe Lone Wolfas Lucy Shannon1923FilmLaw of the Lawlessas Sahande1923FilmFog Boundas Gale Brenon1923FilmDark Secretsas Ruth Rutherford1922FilmOn the High Seasas Leone Deveraux1922FilmThe Siren Callas Charlotte Woods1922FilmA Trip to Paramountownas Self1922FilmThe Woman Who Walked Aloneas The Honorable Iris Champneys1922FilmThe Crimson Challengeas Tharon Last1922FilmMoran of the Lady Lettyas Moran Letty Sternersen1921FilmFool's Paradiseas Poll Patchouli1921FilmBehind Masksas Jeanne Mesurier1921FilmThe Idol of the Northas Colette Brissac1920FilmHalf an Houras Lady Lillian Garson1920FilmGuilty of Loveas Thelma Miller1920FilmThe Dark Mirroras Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore1920FilmBlack Is Whiteas Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch1919FilmHis Wife's Friendas Lady Marion Grimwood1919FilmL'apacheas Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong1919FilmThe Market of Soulsas Helen Armes1919FilmOther Men's Wivesas Cynthia Brock1919FilmThe Lady of Red Butteas Faro Fan1919FilmThe Homebreakeras Mary Marbury1919FilmExtravaganceas Helen Douglas1919FilmHard Boiledas Corinne Melrose1918FilmQuicksandas Mary Bowen1918FilmVive la France!as Genevieve Bouchette1918FilmGreen Eyesas Shirley Hunter1918FilmThe Kaiser's Shadowas Paula Harris1918FilmLove Meas Maida Madison1917FilmLove Lettersas Eileen Rodney1917FilmThe Price Markas Paula Lee1917FilmThe Flame of the Yukonas Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'1917FilmWild Winship's Widowas Catherine Winship1917FilmThe Dark Roadas Cleo Morrison1917FilmBack of the Manas Ellen Horton1917FilmChicken Caseyas Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry1917FilmThe Weaker Sexas Ruth Tilden1916FilmA Gamble in Souls1916FilmThe Vagabond Princeas Lola ''Fluffy''1916FilmThe Jungle Childas Ollante1916FilmThe Captive Godas Tecolote1916FilmCivilization's Childas Ellen McManus1916FilmThe Raidersas Dorothy Haldeman1916FilmThe Three Musketeersas Queen Anne1915FilmThe Discipleas Mary Houston1914FilmAcross the Pacificas Elsie Escott1914FilmPierre of the Plainsas Jen Galbraith

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