
Dorothy Dalton
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-09-21
Day of Death
1972-04-13 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dorothy Dalton
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
Acting
(1934)
The Camera Speaks
as Self (archive footage)
(1924)
The Lone Wolf
as Lucy Shannon
(1923)
Dark Secrets
as Ruth Rutherford
(1923)
Law of the Lawless
as Sahande
(1923)
Fog Bound
as Gale Brenon
(1922)
Moran of the Lady Letty
as Moran Letty Sternersen
(1922)
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
(1922)
The Siren Call
as Charlotte Woods
(1922)
The Woman Who Walked Alone
as The Honorable Iris Champneys
(1922)
The Crimson Challenge
as Tharon Last
(1922)
On the High Seas
as Leone Deveraux
(1921)
Fool's Paradise
as Poll Patchouli
(1921)
Behind Masks
as Jeanne Mesurier
(1920)
Black Is White
as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
(1920)
Guilty of Love
as Thelma Miller
(1920)
The Dark Mirror
as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
(1919)
Other Men's Wives
as Cynthia Brock
(1919)
Hard Boiled
as Corinne Melrose
(1919)
His Wife's Friend
as Lady Marion Grimwood
(1918)
Green Eyes
as Shirley Hunter
(1918)
Vive la France!
as Genevieve Bouchette
(1918)
Love Me
as Maida Madison
(1918)
The Kaiser's Shadow
as Paula Harris
(1917)
The Weaker Sex
as Ruth Tilden
(1917)
The Dark Road
as Cleo Morrison
(1917)
Love Letters
as Eileen Rodney
(1917)
The Flame of the Yukon
as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
(1917)
The Price Mark
as Paula Lee
(1917)
Chicken Casey
as Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
(1917)
Wild Winship's Widow
as Catherine Winship
(1917)
Back of the Man
as Ellen Horton
(1916)
The Vagabond Prince
as Lola ''Fluffy''
(1916)
(1916)
The Three Musketeers
as Queen Anne
(1916)
The Raiders
as Dorothy Haldeman
(1916)
The Captive God
as Tecolote
(1916)
Civilization's Child
as Ellen McManus
(1916)
The Jungle Child
as Ollante
(1915)
The Disciple
as Mary Houston
(1914)
Across the Pacific
as Elsie Escott
(1914)
Pierre of the Plains
as Jen Galbraith