Dorothy Dalton (September 22, 1893 â€" 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, 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 had preferred to play
ingénues.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[citation needed] and Aphrodite (1919).
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, 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 had preferred to play
ingénues.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[citation needed] and Aphrodite (1919).
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