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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.
Born
Friday, 22 September 1893
Died
Thursday, 13 April 1972
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Camera Speaks | Herself (archive footage) / (archive footage) | 1934 |
The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
The Moral Sinner | Leah Kleschna | 1924 |
Dark Secrets | Ruth Rutherford | 1923 |
The Siren Call | Charlotte Woods, a dancer / Charlotte Woods | 1922 |
On the High Seas | Leone Deveraux | 1922 |
A Trip to Paramountown | Herself / Self | 1922 |
The Crimson Challenge | Tharon Last | 1922 |
Moran of the Lady Letty | Moran Letty Sternersen | 1922 |
Behind Masks | Jeanne Mesurier | 1921 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Camera Speaks | Herself (archive footage) / (archive footage) | 1934 |
The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
The Moral Sinner | Leah Kleschna | 1924 |
Dark Secrets | Ruth Rutherford | 1923 |
The Siren Call | Charlotte Woods, a dancer / Charlotte Woods | 1922 |
On the High Seas | Leone Deveraux | 1922 |
A Trip to Paramountown | Herself / Self | 1922 |
The Crimson Challenge | Tharon Last | 1922 |
Moran of the Lady Letty | Moran Letty Sternersen | 1922 |
Behind Masks | Jeanne Mesurier | 1921 |
The Idol of the North | Colette Brissac | 1921 |
Half an Hour | Lady Lillian Garson | 1920 |
Guilty of Love | Thelma Miller | 1920 |
His Wife's Friend | Lady Marion Grimwood | 1919 |
L'apache | Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong | 1919 |
The Market of Souls | Helen Armes | 1919 |
Quicksand | Mary Bowen | 1918 |
Vive la France! | Genevieve Bouchette | 1918 |
Green Eyes | Shirley Hunter | 1918 |
The Kaiser's Shadow | Paula Harris | 1918 |
The Mating of Marcella | Marcella Duranzo | 1918 |
Tyrant Fear | Allaine Grandet | 1918 |
Flare-Up Sal | 'Flare-Up' Sal | 1918 |
Love Letters | Eileen Rodney | 1917 |
The Price Mark | Paula Lee | 1917 |
Ten of Diamonds | Neva Blaine | 1917 |
Wild Winship's Widow | Catherine Winship | 1917 |
Back of the Man | Ellen Horton | 1917 |
Chicken Casey | Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry | 1917 |
A Gamble in Souls | Freda Maxey | 1916 |
The Vagabond Prince | Lola ''Fluffy'' | 1916 |
The Jungle Child | Ollante | 1916 |
Civilization's Child | Ellen McManus | 1916 |
The Raiders | Dorothy Haldeman | 1916 |
The Three Musketeers | Queen Anne | 1916 |
The Disciple | Mary Houston | 1915 |
Across the Pacific | Elsie Escott | 1914 |