Marie Doro (born Marie Katherine Stewart; May 25, 1882 â€" October 9,
1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film
era.She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles
Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William
Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely
moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast
in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent,
cultivated and witty.On Frohman's death in the RMS Lusitania in 1915,
she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor; most
of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she
returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and
ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances.
1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film
era.She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles
Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William
Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely
moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast
in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent,
cultivated and witty.On Frohman's death in the RMS Lusitania in 1915,
she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor; most
of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she
returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and
ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances.
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