Dorothy Dalton

Dorothy Dalton

Born: September 21, 1893
Died: April 13, 1972
in 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.

Movies for Dorothy Dalton...

The Camera Speaks
Title: The Camera Speaks
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
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The Lone Wolf
Title: The Lone Wolf
Character: Lucy Shannon
Released: April 27, 1924
Type: Movie
A silent film Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor.
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Law of the Lawless
Title: Law of the Lawless
Character: Sahande
Released: July 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Sahande, a Tartar girl placed on the block to be sold, is bought by Costa, a Gypsy chief who outbids Sahande's fiancé, Sender. Costa marries the infuriated Sahande but agrees to give her 10 days in which either to return his love or have Sender fight him.
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Fog Bound
Title: Fog Bound
Character: Gale Brenon
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
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Dark Secrets
Title: Dark Secrets
Character: Ruth Rutherford
Released: January 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington. Dejected, he returns to his regiment in Egypt and sinks into dissipation. Ruth hears of his plight and also goes to Egypt, where she meets Dr. Mohammed Ali. Ali cures her lameness in return for Ruth's agreeing to become his wife, but Biskra, Ruth's servant, kills Ali before he can collect. Even from death Ali's power over Ruth returns her to her wheelchair until she jumps up to save Wallington from an attack feigned by Biskra.
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The Siren Call
Title: The Siren Call
Character: Charlotte Woods
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
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On the High Seas
Title: On the High Seas
Character: Leone Deveraux
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Three castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in mid-ocean.
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A Trip to Paramountown
Title: A Trip to Paramountown
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
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The Crimson Challenge
Title: The Crimson Challenge
Character: Tharon Last
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
In the cattle town of Lost Valley, Buck Courtrey, saloon owner and political boss, covets Tharon, daughter of Jim Last, a small rancher; and when rebuffed, he has Last killed. Tharon swears revenge with her father's own guns and organizes a vigilante band to check Courtrey's activities. Learning that she loves Billy, a cowpuncher, Courtrey kidnaps and threatens to kill him unless Tharon agrees to marry Courtrey following his divorce from Ellen. Courtrey's wife informs Tharon of Billy's whereabouts, and she rescues him in time to join the townspeople attacking Courtrey's gang. Courtrey is pursued by Tharon, who kills him and returns to become Billy's wife.
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Moran of the Lady Letty
Title: Moran of the Lady Letty
Character: Moran Letty Sternersen
Released: February 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty daughter of the Letty's captain. Moran and Ramon have little use for each other, but when trouble erupts and the smuggler Captain Kitchell turns his evil eye on Moran, it is Ramon who comes to her rescue.
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Fool's Paradise
Title: Fool's Paradise
Character: Poll Patchouli
Released: December 9, 1921
Type: Movie
In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and marries her. When his vision is surgically restored, he leaves for Siam to find Rosa.
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Behind Masks
Title: Behind Masks
Character: Jeanne Mesurier
Released: July 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Jeanne, an orphaned young heiress, is about to be married off to an elderly man by her scheming aunt, who stands to make money on the marriage, a fact of which Jeanne is unaware. Jeanne is also unaware that her aunt heads a ring that runs crooked card games, and one night Jeanne attends a fixed bridge game at which her aunt hopes to cheat a wealthy young man out of his money...
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The Dark Mirror
Title: The Dark Mirror
Character: Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
Released: May 8, 1920
Type: Movie
New York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick, who undertakes to solve the mystery.
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Black Is White
Title: Black Is White
Character: Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne Strakosch
Released: March 7, 1920
Type: Movie
A man's jealousy of his wife ruins their marriage. She leaves, taking a new name and beginning anew. Years later, they meet, but the husband does not know it is she. They marry, with the wife hoping that time has changed her husband for the better.
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His Wife's Friend
Title: His Wife's Friend
Character: Lady Marion Grimwood
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Unhappily married to Sir Robert Grimwood, an older man whose only passion is chess, Lady Marion finds solace in the arrival of her old suitor, John Heritage.
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Hard Boiled
Title: Hard Boiled
Character: Corinne Melrose
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A musical-comedy troupe headed by prima donna Corinne Melrose is stranded in the little town of Nilesburg, Arizona, when the show's manager leaves town with all the money. When Corinne spends her last cent on a train ticket for one of the girls, she is advised by the station agent to seek assistance from a kindhearted old lady called Aunt Tiny Colvin. Aunt Tiny takes Corinne in but confesses that she, too, is in dire financial straits because the moneylender to whom she owes $200, Deacon Simpson, has demanded repayment. The deacon, a married man, becomes enamored of Corinne and makes improper advances towards her. Corinne threatens to expose his behavior to his wife and the townspeople unless he surrenders Aunt Tiny's bank notes, and to avoid the scandal, he complies. Billy Penrose, a tenor who is in love with Corinne, arrives in Nilesburg with news of vaudeville openings in New York, but she has become enchanted by the little town and convinces him to settle there with her. - From AFI
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Vive la France!
Title: Vive la France!
Character: Genevieve Bouchette
Released: September 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell shock, sees the cross of shame on Jenevieve's breast, gets his memory back and the two pledge their troth.
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Shirley Hunter
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her down to his home. There, she finds an acquaintance, Alexander Chapman (Robert McKim), and the fact that she knows him rouses her new husband's jealousy. This is fanned even further when Pearson's younger brother, Morgan (Emory Johnson) returns from college. His fiancee, Margery (Doris Lee), believes there is something going on between Shirley and Morgan and complains to Pearson.
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The Kaiser's Shadow
Title: The Kaiser's Shadow
Character: Paula Harris
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and ultra violet rays, called a "Ray Rifle." Miss Dalton played the girl that would protect it from German spies.
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Love Me
Title: Love Me
Character: Maida Madison
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and proposes. The two marry and return to Philadelphia, where they are coldly received by Gordon's snobbish family. Gordon's elder brother Mortimer's highbrow sensibilities are particularly offended by Maida's breezy manner, and he determines to break up the marriage.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Eileen Rodney
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Naive Eileen Rodney (Dorothy Dalton) is duped by the high-minded talk of Raymond Moreland (William Conklin). But when she discovers that he wants to take her to India without the benefit of a marriage license, she balks and instead weds her guardian, John Harland (Thurston Hall). However, she had written some letters to Moreland, and these come back to haunt her when he tries to use them for blackmail.
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The Price Mark
Title: The Price Mark
Character: Paula Lee
Released: October 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Broke and stranded in the Big City, Paula Lee (Dorothy Dalton) willingly becomes the mistress of "love 'em and leave 'em" playboy Fielding Powell (William Conklin). In spite of himself, Powell falls in love with Paula, and just before leaving on a business trip, he promises to marry her upon his return. In the meantime, however, Paula falls in love with dedicated charity doctor D. Melfi (Thurston Hall).
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The Flame of the Yukon
Title: The Flame of the Yukon
Character: Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'
Released: July 1, 1917
Type: Movie
George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him, but he has no money...
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Wild Winship's Widow
Title: Wild Winship's Widow
Character: Catherine Winship
Released: May 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Widow Catherine Winship cherishes the memory of her late husband so greatly that she has given up her life to the adoration of his memory. However Catherine's idealism is rudely shattered when she discovers a package of love letters in a secret drawer in Winship's desk.
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The Dark Road
Title: The Dark Road
Character: Cleo Morrison
Released: March 31, 1917
Type: Movie
Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy, the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.
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Back of the Man
Title: Back of the Man
Character: Ellen Horton
Released: March 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Larry Thomas works as a minor employee in a large insurance company. He loves Ellen Horton, who has great faith in him. When Larry is falsely accused of murder, it is Ellen who saves the day. She also manages to help him achieve the position in the business he deserves.
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Chicken Casey
Title: Chicken Casey
Character: Chicken Casey / Mavis Marberry
Released: January 28, 1917
Type: Movie
A young author, Everett Dryden Hale, has written a book of such strength and originality that it becomes one of the best sellers. The book is entitled "Waifs" and deals with the underworld, a subject of which Hale, who is a New Englander with a Puritanical strain, knows by personal experience, practically nothing at all.
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The Weaker Sex
Title: The Weaker Sex
Character: Ruth Tilden
Released: January 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn for help to his lawyer--his wife.
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A Gamble in Souls
Title: A Gamble in Souls
Released: December 9, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Vagabond Prince
Title: The Vagabond Prince
Character: Lola ''Fluffy''
Released: October 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Prince Tonio of Bothalia, a mythical kingdom in the Balkan Mountains, escapes an arranged marriage to Princess Athalia, the elderly daughter of a neighboring king. Filled with wanderlust, he becomes a sailor and goes to San Francisco where he meets a young singer...
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The Jungle Child
Title: The Jungle Child
Character: Ollante
Released: October 1, 1916
Type: Movie
After her family dies in the jungle, Ollante is raised by Brazilian Indians, and, from her rugged lifestyle, she grows into a woman of uncommon strength and courage. Then, she rescues Ridgeway Webb, an explorer.....
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The Captive God
Title: The Captive God
Character: Tecolote
Released: July 23, 1916
Type: Movie
A Spanish boy is shipwrecked and cast ashore in Mexico in the sixteenth century. He is raised as a god by the Tehuan tribe, who have never before seen a white man, and is named Chiapa. Then at manhood he rules the Tehuans. Chiapa loves the priestess Tecolote but she is kidnapped by the Aztec warrior Mexitli, so he follows in the hopes of rescuing her.
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Civilization's Child
Title: Civilization's Child
Character: Ellen McManus
Released: April 23, 1916
Type: Movie
After an idyllic mountain life in Russia, Berna goes to live with her uncle in the Jewish section of Kiev, arriving just as Cossacks massacre most of the Jews in the city. Berna escapes to New York and works at a sweatshop controlled by Boss Jim McManus, but he seduces her, then throws her out on the street, and she becomes a prostitute. Berna later marries Nicolay Turgenev, a young musician,
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The Raiders
Title: The Raiders
Character: Dorothy Haldeman
Released: February 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Scott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot to ruin Haldeman.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Queen Anne
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan leaves home travelling to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.
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The Disciple
Title: The Disciple
Character: Mary Houston
Released: October 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Elsie Escott
Released: November 2, 1914
Type: Movie
The Escott family, on their way to Montana, is attacked by Indians. Army Lt. Joe Lanier finds little Elsie Escott, the only survivor,
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Pierre of the Plains
Title: Pierre of the Plains
Character: Jen Galbraith
Released: April 11, 1914
Type: Movie
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures...