Dorothy Dalton

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Dorothy Dalton (b. September 22, 1893 in Chicago, Illinois - d. April 13, 1972 in Scarsdale, New York) was a silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. She had auburn hair and dimples. Beginning in 1910 Dorothy was a player in stock companies in Chicago and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was in Hollywood.

[edit] Career

She made her movie debut in 1914 in Pierre of the Plains, co-starring Edgar Selwyn and starring in Across the Pacific in the same year. In 1915 Dalton 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. 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. Dorothy 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).

The actress' stage career included performances as Chrysis in Aphrodite by Morris Gest in 1920 and on Broadway in The Country Wife.

[edit] Personal life

Dalton was once married to actor Lew Cody, then later divorced. She married theatrical producer Arthur Hammerstein in 1924. He was the uncle of Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist and the son of Oscar Hammerstein, the impresario. After the second marriage Dorothy acted infrequently. Arthur Hammerstein died in 1955.

Dorothy Dalton died in 1972, age 78, at her home in Scarsdale. Her funeral was conducted from Bennett Funeral Home there.