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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 21, 1893
Died
April 13, 1972
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dorothy Dalton
0.2 Popularity
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
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Self (archive footage)
The Camera Speaks
1934
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Lucy Shannon
The Lone Wolf
1924
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Sahande
Law of the Lawless
1923
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Gale Brenon
Fog Bound
1923
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Ruth Rutherford
Dark Secrets
1923
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Charlotte Woods
The Siren Call
1922
6.0
Leone Deveraux
On the High Seas
1922
7.3
Self
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
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The Honorable Iris Champneys
The Woman Who Walked Alone
1922
3.0
Tharon Last
The Crimson Challenge
1922
Credits
The Camera Speaks
as Self (archive footage)
1934
4.0
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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The Siren Call
as Charlotte Woods
1922
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On the High Seas
as Leone Deveraux
1922
6.0
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922
7.3
The Woman Who Walked Alone
as The Honorable Iris Champneys
1922
0.0
The Crimson Challenge
as Tharon Last
1922
3.0
Moran of the Lady Letty
as Moran Letty Sternersen
1922
6.5
Fool's Paradise
as Poll Patchouli
1921
5.5
Behind Masks
as Jeanne Mesurier
1921
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Guilty of Love
as Thelma Miller
1920
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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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Other Men's Wives
as Cynthia Brock
1919
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Hard Boiled
as Corinne Melrose
1919
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Vive la France!
as Genevieve Bouchette
1918
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Green Eyes
as Shirley Hunter
1918
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The Kaiser's Shadow
as Paula Harris
1918
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Love Me
as Maida Madison
1918
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Love Letters
as Eileen Rodney
1917
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The Price Mark
as Paula Lee
1917
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The Flame of the Yukon
as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
1917
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Wild Winship's Widow
as Catherine Winship
1917
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The Dark Road
as Cleo Morrison
1917
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Back of the Man
as Ellen Horton
1917
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Chicken Casey
as Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
1917
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The Weaker Sex
as Ruth Tilden
1917
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A Gamble in Souls
1916
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The Vagabond Prince
as Lola ''Fluffy''
1916
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The Jungle Child
as Ollante
1916
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The Captive God
as Tecolote
1916
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Civilization's Child
as Ellen McManus
1916
0.0
The Raiders
as Dorothy Haldeman
1916
0.0
The Three Musketeers
as Queen Anne
1916
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The Disciple
as Mary Houston
1915
8.0
Across the Pacific
as Elsie Escott
1914
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Pierre of the Plains
as Jen Galbraith
1914
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