1893-09-21 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.
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The Camera Speaks | Self (archive footage) | 1934-08-11 |
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The Lone Wolf | Lucy Shannon | 1924-04-27 |
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Law of the Lawless | Sahande | 1923-07-22 |
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Fog Bound | Gale Brenon | 1923-05-27 |
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Dark Secrets | Ruth Rutherford | 1923-01-21 |
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The Woman Who Walked Alone | The Honorable Iris Champneys | 1922-06-11 |
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A Trip to Paramountown | Self | 1922-07-10 |
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On the High Seas | Leone Deveraux | 1922-09-17 |
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The Siren Call | Charlotte Woods | 1922-09-17 |
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The Crimson Challenge | Tharon Last | 1922-04-02 |
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Moran of the Lady Letty | Moran Letty Sternersen | 1922-02-05 |
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Fool's Paradise | Poll Patchouli | 1921-12-09 |
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Behind Masks | Jeanne Mesurier | 1921-07-23 |
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Guilty of Love | Thelma Miller | 1920-08-22 |
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Black Is White | Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch | 1920-03-07 |
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The Dark Mirror | Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore | 1920-05-08 |
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His Wife's Friend | Lady Marion Grimwood | 1919-12-21 |
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Hard Boiled | Corinne Melrose | 1919-02-02 |
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Other Men's Wives | Cynthia Brock | 1919-06-15 |
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Green Eyes | Shirley Hunter | 1918-08-26 |
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Vive la France! | Genevieve Bouchette | 1918-09-15 |
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Love Me | Maida Madison | 1918-03-18 |
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The Kaiser's Shadow | Paula Harris | 1918-07-01 |
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Love Letters | Eileen Rodney | 1917-12-24 |
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The Price Mark | Paula Lee | 1917-10-21 |
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Back of the Man | Ellen Horton | 1917-03-04 |
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The Flame of the Yukon | Ethel Evans / 'The Flame' | 1917-07-01 |
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The Weaker Sex | Ruth Tilden | 1917-01-07 |
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The Dark Road | Cleo Morrison | 1917-03-31 |
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Wild Winship's Widow | Catherine Winship | 1917-05-20 |
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Chicken Casey | Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry | 1917-01-28 |
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Civilization's Child | Ellen McManus | 1916-04-23 |
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The Raiders | Dorothy Haldeman | 1916-02-27 |
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The Captive God | Tecolote | 1916-07-23 |
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The Three Musketeers | Queen Anne | 1916-02-06 |
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A Gamble in Souls | 1916-12-09 | |
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The Jungle Child | Ollante | 1916-10-01 |
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The Vagabond Prince | Lola ''Fluffy'' | 1916-10-22 |
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The Disciple | Mary Houston | 1915-10-16 |
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Across the Pacific | Elsie Escott | 1914-11-02 |
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Pierre of the Plains | Jen Galbraith | 1914-04-11 |
