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Home/People/Dorothy Dalton
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Born
Sep 21, 1893Died: Apr 13, 1972
Lived 78 years
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

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Dorothy Dalton

Acting

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.
The Camera Speaks poster

The Camera Speaks

as Self (archive footage)
1934
The Lone Wolf poster

The Lone Wolf

as Lucy Shannon
1924
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Law of the Lawless

as Sahande
1923
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Fog Bound

as Gale Brenon
1923
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Dark Secrets

as Ruth Rutherford
1923
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On the High Seas

as Leone Deveraux
1922
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The Siren Call

as Charlotte Woods
1922
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A Trip to Paramountown

as Self
1922
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The Woman Who Walked Alone

as The Honorable Iris Champneys
1922
The Crimson Challenge poster

The Crimson Challenge

as Tharon Last
1922
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Moran of the Lady Letty

as Moran Letty Sternersen
1922
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Fool's Paradise

as Poll Patchouli
1921
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Behind Masks

as Jeanne Mesurier
1921
The Idol of the North poster

The Idol of the North

as Colette Brissac
1921
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Half an Hour

as Lady Lillian Garson
1920
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Guilty of Love

as Thelma Miller
1920
The Dark Mirror poster

The Dark Mirror

as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
1920
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Black Is White

as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
1920
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His Wife's Friend

as Lady Marion Grimwood
1919
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L'apache

as Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
1919