Dorothy Dalton
Known for Acting · 50 credits
- Born
- 1893-09-21
- Died
- 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.
Known For
Movies (50)
L'apache
1919
as Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
Extravagance
1919
as Helen Douglas
Quicksand
1918
as Mary Bowen
Green Eyes
1918
as Shirley Hunter
The Homebreaker
1919
as Mary Marbury
Tyrant Fear
1918
as Allaine Grandet
Law of the Lawless
1923
as Sahande
Love Letters
1917
as Eileen Rodney
Moran of the Lady Letty
1922
as Moran Letty Sternersen
The Lady of Red Butte
1919
as Faro Fan
His Wife's Friend
1919
as Lady Marion Grimwood
The Lone Wolf
1924
as Lucy Shannon
The Market of Souls
1919
as Helen Armes
Other Men's Wives
1919
as Cynthia Brock
Half an Hour
1920
as Lady Lillian Garson
On the High Seas
1922
as Leone Deveraux
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
Fool's Paradise
1921
as Poll Patchouli
The Three Musketeers
1916
as Queen Anne
The Siren Call
1922
as Charlotte Woods
The Vagabond Prince
1916
as Lola ''Fluffy''
The Woman Who Walked Alone
1922
as The Honorable Iris Champneys
The Price Mark
1917
as Paula Lee
The Flame of the Yukon
1917
as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
The Idol of the North
1921
as Colette Brissac
The Camera Speaks
1934
as Self (archive footage)
The Raiders
1916
as Dorothy Haldeman
The Crimson Challenge
1922
as Tharon Last
The Disciple
1915
as Mary Houston
Behind Masks
1921
as Jeanne Mesurier
The Kaiser's Shadow
1918
as Paula Harris
Dark Secrets
1923
as Ruth Rutherford
Vive la France!
1918
as Genevieve Bouchette
The Captive God
1916
as Tecolote
The Jungle Child
1916
as Ollante
Chicken Casey
1917
as Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
Wild Winship's Widow
1917
as Catherine Winship
Fog Bound
1923
as Gale Brenon
Hard Boiled
1919
as Corinne Melrose
Guilty of Love
1920
as Thelma Miller
Civilization's Child
1916
as Ellen McManus
The Dark Mirror
1920
as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
The Weaker Sex
1917
as Ruth Tilden
Back of the Man
1917
as Ellen Horton
Pierre of the Plains
1914
as Jen Galbraith
The Dark Road
1917
as Cleo Morrison
Love Me
1918
as Maida Madison
A Gamble in Souls
1916
Black Is White
1920
as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
Across the Pacific
1914
as Elsie Escott
About 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… With 50 credits spanning from 1914 to 1934, Dorothy Dalton has appeared in 50 films and 0 TV shows.
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- L'apache (1919) — as Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
- Extravagance (1919) — as Helen Douglas
- Quicksand (1918) — as Mary Bowen
- Green Eyes (1918) — as Shirley Hunter
- The Homebreaker (1919) — as Mary Marbury
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