Dorothy Malone

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Pin-up photo by Dorothy Malone for Yank, the Army Weekly (1945)

Dorothy Malone , actually Dorothy Eloise Maloney (born January 30, 1924 in Chicago , Illinois , † January 19, 2018 in Dallas , Texas ), was an American actress . For her appearance in the film Written in the Wind , she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1957 .

Life

Dorothy Malone took an interest in acting at school performances as a child. She took her first steps in show business as a photo model for children's fashion. For the film, she was discovered in a student production, but turned down a contract with a Hollywood studio. She wanted to complete a solid education (dance and voice training) first. She was then signed to the large film studio RKO Pictures after an agent saw her in the theater.

From 1945 she worked for the Warner Brothers Studios; several smaller roles followed, for example as an attractive bookseller in Tote Sleep tight next to Humphrey Bogart . In the following years, Malone played mostly female lead roles in B-Movies, but the big breakthrough was denied her. Hollywood only saw Malone as a serious actress when she dyed her hair blonde and then impersonated the nymphomaniac heiress of an oil empire in Douglas Sirk's drama In the Wind (1956). The Oscar she got for this film, however, did not prove to be career-enhancing. The following offers mostly no longer had the quality of this film, exceptions were a renewed collaboration with Sirk on Duell in den Wolken (1957) and the western The Man with the Golden Guns (1959) with Henry Fonda .

Malone was increasingly looking for role offers on television. From 1964 she played Constance MacKenzie for four years in the soap opera Peyton Place , a role that earned her two nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Photoplay Award . In the 1970s, she only appeared sporadically in films, instead she starred in television series such as The Streets of San Francisco , Rich and Poor , The Boss and Vegas . Malone took her last role in 1992 in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct , in which she played a convicted murderer and friend of Sharon Stone's main character.

Private life

Privately, she was married to the actor Jacques Bergerac in her first marriage between 1959 and 1964 . Her two daughters Mimi (* 1960) and Diane (* 1961) come from this connection. In 1969 she married the banker Robert Tomarkin in her second marriage. The marriage was annulled that same year. Her third marriage was in 1971 with Charles H. Bell. The marriage was divorced in 1974.

The actress last lived in seclusion in Texas, where she died in January 2018 at the age of almost 94. Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1718 Vine Street.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1942: The Man Who Wouldn't Die
  • 1943: Gildersleeve on Broadway
  • 1943: The Falcon and the Co-eds
  • 1943: Higher and Higher
  • 1944: Seven Days Ashore
  • 1944: Show business
  • 1944: Step Lively
  • 1944: One Mysterious Night
  • 1945: Frontier Days
  • 1945: Too Young to Know
  • 1946: Janie Gets Married
  • 1946: I think of you day and night (Night and Day)
  • 1946: The Big Sleep (The Big Sleep)
  • 1948: To the Victor
  • 1948: Two Guys from Texas
  • 1948: One Sunday Afternoon
  • 1949: Blondes Poison (Flaxy Martin)
  • 1949: The contraband (South of St. Louis)
  • 1949: outlawed (Colorado Territory)
  • 1950: Convicted / The Gray Gate to Hell (Convicted)
  • 1950: The Nevada Man (The Nevadan)
  • 1950: The Killer That Stalked New York
  • 1951: Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
  • 1951: Saddle Legion
  • 1952: ... now the accounts are settled (The Bushwhackers)
  • 1952: The Devil of the Ocean (Torpedo Alley)
  • 1953: Scared Stiff
  • 1953: The Hand on the Colt (Law and Order)
  • 1953: Jack Slade - the gunslinger of Colorado (Jack Slade)
  • 1954: The Fast and the Furious
  • 1954: Loophole
  • 1954: Against Terror and Bandits (The Lone Gun)
  • 1954: Checkmate (Pushover)
  • 1954: Security Risk
  • 1954: Hell 36 (Private Hell 36)
  • 1954: One shouldn't play with love (Young at Heart)
  • 1955: Vacation Until You Wake Up (Battle Cry)
  • 1955: Five revolvers go west (Five Guns West)
  • 1955: The Devil in the Saddle (Tall Man Riding)
  • 1955: Your very devoted ... (Sincerely Yours)
  • 1955: The Scare of Agents / Artists and Models
  • 1955: In Acht und Bann (At Gunpoint)
  • 1956: Blood on My Hands (Tension at Table Rock)
  • 1956: Escaped Death (Pillars of the Sky)
  • 1956: Written on the Wind (Written on the Wind)
  • 1957: Quantez, the dead city (Quantez)
  • 1957: The man with 1,000 faces (Man of a Thousand Faces)
  • 1957: Airfreight Opium (Tip on a Dead Jockey)
  • 1957: Duel in the Clouds (The Tamished Angels)
  • 1958: Her life was a scandal (Too Much, Too Soon)
  • 1959: The Man with the Golden Guns (Warlock)
  • 1960: Descent into Hell (The Last Voyage)
  • 1961: El Perdido (The Last Sunset)
  • 1963: Beach Party
  • 1964: Fate Is The Hunter
  • 1964–1968: Peyton Place (TV series, 430 episodes)
  • 1969: Murder in a black Cadillac (Femmine insaziabili)
  • 1975: Patty - America's Most Wanted Woman (Abduction)
  • 1975: Miami Connection (The Man Who Would Not Die)
  • 1976: November Plan (The November Plan)
  • 1977: Rendezvous with Death (Golden Rendezvous)
  • 1979: Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
  • 1979: The Philadelphia Clan (Winter Killst)
  • 1980: Invasion from Space (The Day Time Ended)
  • 1983: The Being
  • 1984: The Voice of the Heart (He's Not Your Son)
  • 1987: Rest in Peace (Descanse en piezas)
  • 1992: Basic Instinct

Awards

literature

  • Gregor Hauser: Muzzle flashes: The 50 best B-Westerns of the 50s and their stars . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2015, ISBN 978-3-932053-85-6 . Pp. 184-187.

Web links

Commons : Dorothy Malone  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anita Gates: Dorothy Malone Dies at 93; Star of TV's 'Peyton Place'. In: The New York Times . January 19, 2018, accessed March 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kirsten Chuba: Dorothy Malone, Oscar-Winning Actress in 'Written on the Wind,' 'Peyton Place,' Dies at 92. In: Variety . January 19, 2018, accessed January 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Malone, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maloney, Dorothy Eloise (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2018
Place of death Dallas , Texas