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Gender: Female

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Movie Involvements: 35

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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 Famous Work

Back of the Man
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Back of the Man

(1917) Ellen Horton
The Dark Road
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The Dark Road

(1917) Cleo Morrison
A Trip to Paramountown
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Law of the Lawless
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Law of the Lawless

(1923) Sahande
The Camera Speaks
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The Camera Speaks

(1934) Self (archive footage)
The Lone Wolf
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The Lone Wolf

(1924) Lucy Shannon
Fool's Paradise
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Fool's Paradise

(1921) Poll Patchouli
Fog Bound
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Fog Bound

(1923) Gale Brenon

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1934 Self (archive footage)
1924 Lucy Shannon
1923 Sahande
Gale Brenon
Ruth Rutherford
1922 Leone Deveraux
Charlotte Woods
Self
Tharon Last
Moran Letty Sternersen
1921 Poll Patchouli
Jeanne Mesurier
1920 Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
1919 Lady Marion Grimwood
Corinne Melrose
1918 Genevieve Bouchette
Shirley Hunter
Paula Harris
Maida Madison
1917 Eileen Rodney
Paula Lee
Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
Catherine Winship
Cleo Morrison
Ellen Horton
Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
Ruth Tilden
1916 N/A
Lola ''Fluffy''
Ollante
Tecolote
Ellen McManus
Dorothy Haldeman
Queen Anne
1915 Mary Houston
1914 Elsie Escott
Jen Galbraith
Year Character Movie/Tv

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