Dolores Costello

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Dolores Costello, 1926

Dolores Costello (born September 17, 1903 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † March 1, 1979 in Fallbrook , California ) was an American actress who reached the peak of her film career towards the end of the silent film era .

Career

Dolores Costello and her sister Helene Costello were the daughters of the then famous stage actor Maurice Costello , who himself had a successful career in film. Dolores made her screen debut in 1909 with her father and sister Helene and played in several productions in the following years. In 1924 she celebrated great success with her sister Helen in a joint dance number in the George White Scandals of 1924 . Success earned the sisters each contract with the Warner Brothers company and the move to Hollywood . Dolores Costello had her breakthrough to film star in 1926 when John Barrymore hired her as the Leading Lady for The Sea Beast , an adaptation of the novel Moby Dick . In the same year she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars .

Thanks to the success, Dolores Costello became the studio's biggest female star and made the switch to sound film without major problems. After she married John Barrymore in 1928, she retired from the big screen in 1931 to look after their children. After the divorce in 1935, she returned in motherhood roles, including in the film adaptation of the classic Little Lord Fauntleroy by David O. Selznick . Her most famous role today, she took on in Orson Welles' The Shine of the House of Amberson in 1942 . In 1943 Dolores ended her film career and retired to her avocado farm in Southern California.

Private

Dolores Costello had with John Barrymore the two children Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore and John Drew Barrymore , through whom she became the grandmother of Drew Barrymore and John Blyth Barrymore.

Dolores Costello has a Hollywood star on the Walk of Fame (1645 Vine Street).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1909: A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 1910: The Telephone
  • 1911: A Reformed Santa Claus
  • 1911: His Sister's Children
  • 1911: The Child Crusoes
  • 1912: The Money Kings
  • 1923: Lawful Larceny
  • 1925: Expensive Women
  • 1926: Sensation in the circus (The Third Degree)
  • 1926: The Sea Beast
  • 1927: The Last Days of San Francisco (Old San Francisco)
  • 1927: The Galley Ship (When A Man Loves)
  • 1928: The Love of Betty Patterson (Glorious Betsy)
  • 1928: The Drama of the Flood (Noah's Ark)
  • 1929: The Show of Shows
  • 1931: Expensive Women
  • 1936: The Little Lord (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
  • 1939: Breaking the Ice
  • 1939: Outside These Walls
  • 1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (The Magnificent Ambersons)
  • 1943: This Is the Army

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personal data
SURNAME Costello, Dolores
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1979
Place of death Fallbrook , California