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