Dorothy Dalton
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.
The Crimson Challenge
as Tharon LastIn the cattle town of Lost Valley, Buck Courtrey, saloon owner and political boss, covets...
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Across the Pacific
as Elsie EscottThe Escott family, on their way to Montana, is attacked by Indians. Army Lt. Joe Lanier finds...
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Moran of the Lady Letty
as Moran Letty SternersenWealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a...
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The Kaiser's Shadow
as Paula HarrisFrench scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray...
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The Siren Call
as Charlotte WoodsLove complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
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Behind Masks
as Jeanne MesurierJeanne, an orphaned young heiress, is about to be married off to an elderly man by her scheming...
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Fool's Paradise
as Poll PatchouliIn a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still...
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A Trip to Paramountown
as SelfDocumentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood,...
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Vive la France!
as Genevieve BouchetteA couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell...
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The Lone Wolf
as Lucy ShannonA silent film Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor.
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On the High Seas
as Leone DeverauxThree castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in...
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Wild Winship's Widow
as Catherine WinshipWidow Catherine Winship cherishes the memory of her late husband so greatly that she has given...
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The Three Musketeers
as Queen AnneD'Artagnan leaves home travelling to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although...
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The Disciple
as Mary HoustonJim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the...
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The Captive God
as TecoloteA Spanish boy is shipwrecked and cast ashore in Mexico in the sixteenth century. He is raised as...
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Law of the Lawless
as SahandeSahande, a Tartar girl placed on the block to be sold, is bought by Costa, a Gypsy chief who...
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The Dark Road
as Cleo MorrisonJim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He...
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The Raiders
as Dorothy HaldemanScott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot...
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The Flame of the Yukon
as Ethel Evans / 'The Flame'George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon...
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Black Is White
as Margaret Brood / Theresa / Yvonne StrakoschA man's jealousy of his wife ruins their marriage. She leaves, taking a new name and beginning...
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Love Me
as Maida MadisonIn a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and...
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Civilization's Child
as Ellen McManusAfter an idyllic mountain life in Russia, Berna goes to live with her uncle in the Jewish...
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The Weaker Sex
as Ruth TildenJack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is...
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The Dark Mirror
as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'MooreNew York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees...
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The Price Mark
as Paula LeeBroke and stranded in the Big City, Paula Lee (Dorothy Dalton) willingly becomes the mistress of...
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His Wife's Friend
as Lady Marion GrimwoodUnhappily married to Sir Robert Grimwood, an older man whose only passion is chess, Lady Marion...
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Love Letters
as Eileen RodneyNaive Eileen Rodney (Dorothy Dalton) is duped by the high-minded talk of Raymond Moreland...
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The Camera Speaks
as Self (archive footage)In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting...
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Green Eyes
as Shirley HunterSoutherner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings...
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Back of the Man
as Ellen HortonLarry Thomas works as a minor employee in a large insurance company. He loves Ellen Horton, who...
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