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41
Birthday:
1893-09-21
Place of birth:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Dorothy Dalton

Overview

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

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1934 The Camera Speaks Actor Self (archive footage) 59
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1924 The Lone Wolf Actor Lucy Shannon N/A
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1923 Law of the Lawless Actor Sahande N/A
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1923 Fog Bound Actor Gale Brenon N/A
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1923 Dark Secrets Actor Ruth Rutherford N/A
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1922 On the High Seas Actor Leone Deveraux 59
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1922 The Siren Call Actor Charlotte Woods N/A
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1922 A Trip to Paramountown Actor Self 58
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1922 The Woman Who Walked Alone Actor The Honorable Iris Champneys N/A
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1922 The Crimson Challenge Actor Tharon Last 58
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1922 Moran of the Lady Letty Actor Moran Letty Sternersen 59
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1921 Fool's Paradise Actor Poll Patchouli 58
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1921 Behind Masks Actor Jeanne Mesurier N/A
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1920 Guilty of Love Actor Thelma Miller N/A
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1920 The Dark Mirror Actor Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore 58
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1920 Black Is White Actor Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch N/A
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1919 His Wife's Friend Actor Lady Marion Grimwood N/A
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1919 Other Men's Wives Actor Cynthia Brock N/A
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1919 Hard Boiled Actor Corinne Melrose N/A
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1918 Vive la France! Actor Genevieve Bouchette 58
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1918 Green Eyes Actor Shirley Hunter N/A
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1918 The Kaiser's Shadow Actor Paula Harris N/A
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1918 Love Me Actor Maida Madison 58
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1917 Love Letters Actor Eileen Rodney N/A
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1917 The Price Mark Actor Paula Lee N/A
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1917 The Flame of the Yukon Actor Ethel Evans / 'The Flame' N/A
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1917 Wild Winship's Widow Actor Catherine Winship N/A
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1917 The Dark Road Actor Cleo Morrison N/A
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1917 Back of the Man Actor Ellen Horton N/A
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1917 Chicken Casey Actor Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry N/A
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1917 The Weaker Sex Actor Ruth Tilden N/A
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1916 A Gamble in Souls Actor N/A
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1916 The Vagabond Prince Actor Lola ''Fluffy'' N/A
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1916 The Jungle Child Actor Ollante N/A
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1916 The Captive God Actor Tecolote 59
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1916 Civilization's Child Actor Ellen McManus N/A
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1916 The Raiders Actor Dorothy Haldeman N/A
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1916 The Three Musketeers Actor Queen Anne N/A
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1915 The Disciple Actor Mary Houston N/A
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1914 Across the Pacific Actor Elsie Escott N/A
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1914 Pierre of the Plains Actor Jen Galbraith N/A
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