Dorothy Dalton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 21, 1893
- Died
- April 13, 1972
- Birthplace
- 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 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.
Filmography
The Camera Speaks 1934
as Self (archive footage)
The Lone Wolf 1924
as Lucy Shannon
Law of the Lawless 1923
as Sahande
Fog Bound 1923
as Gale Brenon
- Dark Secrets
Dark Secrets 1923
as Ruth Rutherford
The Siren Call 1922
as Charlotte Woods
On the High Seas 1922
as Leone Deveraux
A Trip to Paramountown 1922
as Self
The Woman Who Walked Alone 1922
as The Honorable Iris Champneys
The Crimson Challenge 1922
as Tharon Last
Moran of the Lady Letty 1922
as Moran Letty Sternersen
Fool's Paradise 1921
as Poll Patchouli
Behind Masks 1921
as Jeanne Mesurier
The Idol of the North 1921
as Colette Brissac
Half an Hour 1920
as Lady Lillian Garson
Guilty of Love 1920
as Thelma Miller
The Dark Mirror 1920
as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
Black Is White 1920
as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
His Wife's Friend 1919
as Lady Marion Grimwood
L'apache 1919
as Natalie 'La Bourget' Bourget / Helen Armstrong
The Market of Souls 1919
as Helen Armes
Other Men's Wives 1919
as Cynthia Brock
The Lady of Red Butte 1919
as Faro Fan
The Homebreaker 1919
as Mary Marbury
Extravagance 1919
as Helen Douglas
Hard Boiled 1919
as Corinne Melrose
Quicksand 1918
as Mary Bowen
Vive la France! 1918
as Genevieve Bouchette
Green Eyes 1918
as Shirley Hunter
The Kaiser's Shadow 1918
as Paula Harris
- Tyrant Fear
Tyrant Fear 1918
as Allaine Grandet
Love Me 1918
as Maida Madison
Love Letters 1917
as Eileen Rodney
The Price Mark 1917
as Paula Lee
The Flame of the Yukon 1917
as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
Wild Winship's Widow 1917
as Catherine Winship
The Dark Road 1917
as Cleo Morrison
Back of the Man 1917
as Ellen Horton
Chicken Casey 1917
as Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
The Weaker Sex 1917
as Ruth Tilden
A Gamble in Souls 1916
Actor
- The Vagabond Prince
The Vagabond Prince 1916
as Lola ''Fluffy''
- The Jungle Child
The Jungle Child 1916
as Ollante
The Captive God 1916
as Tecolote
Civilization's Child 1916
as Ellen McManus
The Raiders 1916
as Dorothy Haldeman
The Three Musketeers 1916
as Queen Anne
The Disciple 1915
as Mary Houston
Across the Pacific 1914
as Elsie Escott
- Pierre of the Plains
Pierre of the Plains 1914
as Jen Galbraith
Credits from TMDB.