Dorothy Dalton
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.
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Acting
Known Credits
41
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-09-21 (131 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Acting

1934

The Camera Speaks as Self (archive footage)

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

Moran of the Lady Letty as Moran Letty Sternersen

1922

The Woman Who Walked Alone as The Honorable Iris Champneys

1922

The Siren Call as Charlotte Woods

1922

The Crimson Challenge as Tharon Last

1922

On the High Seas as Leone Deveraux

1921

Fool's Paradise as Poll Patchouli

1921

Behind Masks as Jeanne Mesurier

1920

The Dark Mirror as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore

1920

Guilty of Love as Thelma Miller

1920

Black Is White as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch

1919

His Wife's Friend as Lady Marion Grimwood

1919

Hard Boiled as Corinne Melrose

1919

Other Men's Wives as Cynthia Brock

1918

Vive la France! as Genevieve Bouchette

1918

The Kaiser's Shadow as Paula Harris

1918

Green Eyes as Shirley Hunter

1918

Love Me as Maida Madison

1917

The Price Mark as Paula Lee

1917

Love Letters as Eileen Rodney

1917

The Dark Road as Cleo Morrison

1917

Chicken Casey as Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry

1917

The Flame of the Yukon as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'

1917

The Weaker Sex as Ruth Tilden

1917

Wild Winship's Widow as Catherine Winship

1917

Back of the Man as Ellen Horton

1916

The Vagabond Prince as Lola ''Fluffy''

1916

The Jungle Child as Ollante

1916

The Captive God as Tecolote

1916

The Three Musketeers as Queen Anne

1916

The Raiders as Dorothy Haldeman

1916

Civilization's Child as Ellen McManus

1916

A Gamble in Souls as Not available

1915

The Disciple as Mary Houston

1914

Across the Pacific as Elsie Escott

1914

Pierre of the Plains as Jen Galbraith