Dorothy Dalton

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: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1893-09-21

Died: 1972-04-13

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1914	Pierre of the Plains	Jen Galbraith	0
2	1914	Across the Pacific	Elsie Escott	0
3	1915	The Disciple	Mary Houston	80
4	1916	The Three Musketeers	Queen Anne	0
5	1916	The Raiders	Dorothy Haldeman	0
6	1916	Civilization's Child	Ellen McManus	0
7	1916	The Captive God	Tecolote	50
8	1916	The Jungle Child	Ollante	0
9	1916	The Vagabond Prince	Lola ''Fluffy''	0
10	1916	A Gamble in Souls		0
11	1917	The Weaker Sex	Ruth Tilden	0
12	1917	Chicken Casey	Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry	0
13	1917	Back of the Man	Ellen Horton	0
14	1917	The Dark Road	Cleo Morrison	0
15	1917	Wild Winship's Widow	Catherine Winship	0
16	1917	The Flame of the Yukon	Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'	0
17	1917	The Price Mark	Paula Lee	0
18	1917	Love Letters	Eileen Rodney	0
19	1918	Love Me	Maida Madison	10
20	1918	The Kaiser's Shadow	Paula Harris	0
21	1918	Green Eyes	Shirley Hunter	0
22	1918	Vive la France!	Genevieve Bouchette	50
23	1919	Hard Boiled	Corinne Melrose	0
24	1919	Other Men's Wives	Cynthia Brock	0
25	1919	His Wife's Friend	Lady Marion Grimwood	0
26	1920	Black Is White	Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch	0
27	1920	The Dark Mirror	Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore	60
28	1920	Guilty of Love	Thelma Miller	0
29	1921	Behind Masks	Jeanne Mesurier	0
30	1921	Fool's Paradise	Poll Patchouli	55
31	1922	Moran of the Lady Letty	Moran Letty Sternersen	65
32	1922	The Crimson Challenge	Tharon Last	30
33	1922	The Woman Who Walked Alone	The Honorable Iris Champneys	0
34	1922	A Trip to Paramountown	Self	73
35	1922	On the High Seas	Leone Deveraux	60
36	1922	The Siren Call	Charlotte Woods	0
37	1923	Dark Secrets	Ruth Rutherford	0
38	1923	Fog Bound	Gale Brenon	0
39	1923	Law of the Lawless	Sahande	0
40	1924	The Lone Wolf	Lucy Shannon	0
41	1934	The Camera Speaks	Self (archive footage)	40

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1914