Dorothy Dalton

Born: 1893-09-21 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died: 1972-04-13

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

1934

The Camera Speaks as Self (archive footage)

1924

The Lone Wolf as Lucy Shannon

1923

Law of the Lawless as Sahande
Dark Secrets as Ruth Rutherford
Fog Bound as Gale Brenon

1922

Moran of the Lady Letty as Moran Letty Sternersen
The Crimson Challenge as Tharon Last
The Woman Who Walked Alone as The Honorable Iris Champneys
A Trip to Paramountown as Self
The Siren Call as Charlotte Woods
On the High Seas as Leone Deveraux

1921

The Idol of the North as Colette Brissac
Fool's Paradise as Poll Patchouli
Behind Masks as Jeanne Mesurier

1920

Half an Hour as Lady Lillian Garson
Black Is White as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
Guilty of Love as Thelma Miller
The Dark Mirror as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore

1919

L'apache as Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
Extravagance as Helen Douglas
The Homebreaker as Mary Marbury
The Market of Souls as Helen Armes
The Lady of Red Butte as Faro Fan
Other Men's Wives as Cynthia Brock
His Wife's Friend as Lady Marion Grimwood
Hard Boiled as Corinne Melrose

1918

Quicksand as Mary Bowen
Green Eyes as Shirley Hunter
Tyrant Fear as Allaine Grandet
Vive la France! as Genevieve Bouchette
Love Me as Maida Madison
The Kaiser's Shadow as Paula Harris

1917

Love Letters as Eileen Rodney
Wild Winship's Widow as Catherine Winship
The Price Mark as Paula Lee
The Weaker Sex as Ruth Tilden
The Flame of the Yukon as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
Back of the Man as Ellen Horton
The Dark Road as Cleo Morrison
Chicken Casey as Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry

1916

The Three Musketeers as Queen Anne
The Jungle Child as Ollante
The Raiders as Dorothy Haldeman
A Gamble in Souls
The Vagabond Prince as Lola ''Fluffy''
The Captive God as Tecolote
Civilization's Child as Ellen McManus

1915

The Disciple as Mary Houston

1914

Pierre of the Plains as Jen Galbraith
Across the Pacific as Elsie Escott