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