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Dorothy Dalton

Dorothy Dalton

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1893-09-21

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies and TV shows :

A Gamble in Souls

A Gamble in Souls

1916

0.0

Movie
A Trip to Paramountown

A Trip to Paramountown

1922

6.0

Movie
Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific

1914

0.0

Movie
Back of the Man

Back of the Man

1917

0.0

Movie
Behind Masks

Behind Masks

1921

0.0

Movie
Black Is White

Black Is White

1920

0.0

Movie
Chicken Casey

Chicken Casey

1917

0.0

Movie
Civilization's Child

Civilization's Child

1916

0.0

Movie
Dark Secrets

Dark Secrets

1923

0.0

Movie
Fog Bound

Fog Bound

1923

0.0

Movie
Fool's Paradise

Fool's Paradise

1921

5.5

Movie
Green Eyes

Green Eyes

1918

0.0

Movie
Hard Boiled

Hard Boiled

1919

0.0

Movie
His Wife's Friend

His Wife's Friend

1919

0.0

Movie
Law of the Lawless

Law of the Lawless

1923

0.0

Movie
Love Letters

Love Letters

1917

0.0

Movie
Love Me

Love Me

1918

1.0

Movie
Moran of the Lady Letty

Moran of the Lady Letty

1922

6.5

Movie
On the High Seas

On the High Seas

1922

6.0

Movie
Pierre of the Plains

Pierre of the Plains

1914

0.0

Movie
The Camera Speaks

The Camera Speaks

1934

4.0

Movie
The Captive God

The Captive God

1916

5.0

Movie
The Crimson Challenge

The Crimson Challenge

1922

3.0

Movie
The Dark Mirror

The Dark Mirror

1920

6.0

Movie
The Dark Road

The Dark Road

1917

0.0

Movie
The Disciple

The Disciple

1915

8.0

Movie
The Flame of the Yukon

The Flame of the Yukon

1917

0.0

Movie
The Jungle Child

The Jungle Child

1916

0.0

Movie
The Kaiser's Shadow

The Kaiser's Shadow

1918

0.0

Movie
The Lone Wolf

The Lone Wolf

1924

0.0

Movie
The Price Mark

The Price Mark

1917

0.0

Movie
The Raiders

The Raiders

1916

0.0

Movie
The Siren Call

The Siren Call

1922

0.0

Movie
The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

1916

0.0

Movie
The Vagabond Prince

The Vagabond Prince

1916

0.0

Movie
The Weaker Sex

The Weaker Sex

1917

0.0

Movie
Vive la France!

Vive la France!

1918

5.0

Movie
Wild Winship's Widow

Wild Winship's Widow

1917

0.0

Movie