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