Dorothy Dalton

Dorothy Dalton

  • Birthday: 1893-09-21
  • Deathday: 1972-04-13
  • 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. 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.

Filmography

Moran of the Lady Letty

1922

As Moran Letty Sternersen

Vive la France!

1918

As Genevieve Bouchette

Behind Masks

1921

As Jeanne Mesurier

The Dark Mirror

1920

As Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore

The Camera Speaks

1934

As Self (archive footage)

The Three Musketeers

1916

As Queen Anne

The Captive God

1916

As Tecolote

The Flame of the Yukon

1917

As Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'

Wild Winship's Widow

1917

As Catherine Winship

The Dark Road

1917

As Cleo Morrison

The Disciple

1915

As Mary Houston

The Lone Wolf

1924

As Lucy Shannon

Pierre of the Plains

1914

As Jen Galbraith

Across the Pacific

1914

As Elsie Escott

Dark Secrets

1923

As Ruth Rutherford

The Raiders

1916

As Dorothy Haldeman

Civilization's Child

1916

As Ellen McManus

The Jungle Child

1916

As Ollante

On the High Seas

1922

As Leone Deveraux

Law of the Lawless

1923

As Sahande

Fog Bound

1923

As Gale Brenon

The Vagabond Prince

1916

As Lola ''Fluffy''

Back of the Man

1917

As Ellen Horton

Black Is White

1920

As Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch

The Price Mark

1917

As Paula Lee

Love Letters

1917

As Eileen Rodney

The Siren Call

1922

As Charlotte Woods

Fool's Paradise

1921

As Poll Patchouli

Chicken Casey

1917

As Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry

Love Me

1918

As Maida Madison

Green Eyes

1918

As Shirley Hunter

The Weaker Sex

1917

As Ruth Tilden

The Crimson Challenge

1922

As Tharon Last

His Wife's Friend

1919

As Lady Marion Grimwood

The Kaiser's Shadow

1918

As Paula Harris

Hard Boiled

1919

As Corinne Melrose

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