Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 21, 1893
Died
Apr 13, 1972
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Credits
50 titles
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
Filmography
The Camera Speaks
Self (archive footage)
The Lone Wolf
Lucy Shannon
Law of the Lawless
Sahande
Fog Bound
Gale Brenon
Dark Secrets
Ruth Rutherford
On the High Seas
Leone Deveraux
The Siren Call
Charlotte Woods
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
The Woman Who Walked Alone
The Honorable Iris Champneys
The Crimson Challenge
Tharon Last
Moran of the Lady Letty
Moran Letty Sternersen
Fool's Paradise
Poll Patchouli
Behind Masks
Jeanne Mesurier
The Idol of the North
Colette Brissac
Half an Hour
Lady Lillian Garson
Guilty of Love
Thelma Miller
The Dark Mirror
Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
Black Is White
Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
His Wife's Friend
Lady Marion Grimwood
L'apache
Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
The Market of Souls
Helen Armes
Other Men's Wives
Cynthia Brock
The Lady of Red Butte
Faro Fan
The Homebreaker
Mary Marbury
Extravagance
Helen Douglas
Hard Boiled
Corinne Melrose
Quicksand
Mary Bowen
Vive la France!
Genevieve Bouchette
Green Eyes
Shirley Hunter
The Kaiser's Shadow
Paula Harris
Tyrant Fear
Allaine Grandet
Love Me
Maida Madison
Love Letters
Eileen Rodney
The Price Mark
Paula Lee
The Flame of the Yukon
Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
Wild Winship's Widow
Catherine Winship
The Dark Road
Cleo Morrison
Back of the Man
Ellen Horton
Chicken Casey
Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
The Weaker Sex
Ruth Tilden
A Gamble in Souls
The Vagabond Prince
Lola ''Fluffy''
The Jungle Child
Ollante
The Captive God
Tecolote
Civilization's Child
Ellen McManus
The Raiders
Dorothy Haldeman
The Three Musketeers
Queen Anne
The Disciple
Mary Houston
Across the Pacific
Elsie Escott
Pierre of the Plains
Jen Galbraith