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