Dorothy Dalton
Known For
Acting
Born
1893-09-21 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
1972-04-13
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.
Most Known For
Green Eyes
as Shirley Hunter
Love Letters
as Eileen Rodney
The Weaker Sex
as Ruth Tilden
His Wife's Friend
as Lady Marion Grimwood
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
The Vagabond Prince
as Lola ''Fluffy''
The Lone Wolf
as Lucy Shannon
The Disciple
as Mary Houston
Moran of the Lady Letty
as Moran Letty Sternersen
The Crimson Challenge
as Tharon Last
On the High Seas
as Leone Deveraux
The Lady of Red Butte
as Faro Fan
The Three Musketeers
as Queen Anne
The Siren Call
as Charlotte Woods
The Raiders
as Dorothy Haldeman
Fool's Paradise
as Poll Patchouli
Vive la France!
as Genevieve Bouchette
The Market of Souls
as Helen Armes
The Dark Mirror
as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
Dark Secrets
as Ruth Rutherford