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