Dorothy Mackaill

Dorothy Mackaill (born March 4, 1903 in Hull , England , † August 12, 1990 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was an American actress of the late silent film - and early sound film era .

Life

The actress first worked as a dancer and went to the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City in the early 1920s . She was soon discovered for the film and quickly played a number of leading and supporting roles, mostly for First National , where she soon rose to a second-tier star. In 1924 she was voted one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of the Year. With the switch to sound film, Dorothy Mackaill initially seemed to have a great future, but neither the success of The Office Wife , a romantic comedy in which Mackaill falls in love with Lewis Stone, who is over 35 years older , nor the melodrama Safe in Hell , in which she sacrificed her life as a prostitute under the direction of William A. Wellman for the man she loves and who had problems with the censor because of the very graphic representation of the execution, helped her to achieve a real breakthrough. She ended her career in a few B-movies in the mid-1930s.

Mackaill was married three times. Her first marriage to the film director and screenwriter Lothar Mendes lasted from 1926 to 1928. Her second with Neil Albert Miller from 1931 to 1934. She was married to Harold Patterson from 1947 to 1948. All marriages ended in divorce.

Filmography (selection)

1920: The Face at the Window
1924: The Painted Lady
1925: Love and Recklessness ( The Bridge of Sighs )
1928: Ladies 'Night in the Turkish bath ( Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath )
1928: The Barker
1931: Safe in Hell
1932: Love Affair
1932: No Man of Her Own
1937: Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Web links

Commons : Dorothy Mackaill - Collection of Images

personal data
SURNAME	Mackaill, Dorothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hull , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH	August 12, 1990
Place of death	Honolulu , Hawaii , United States