Dolores Costello
Dolores Costello ( born September 17, 1903 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † March 1, 1979 in Fallbrook, California ) was an American child actress and actress and sister of Helene Costello.
Career
Dolores Costello and her sister Helene Costello were the daughters of the then-known stage actor Maurice Costello, who himself had a successful career in film. Dolores made her screen debut in 1909 with her father and her sister Helene and played in the subsequent period in several productions. In 1924, she celebrated with her sister Helen a great success in a common dance number in George White Scandals of 1924., Success brought the sisters in each agreements with the company Warner Brothers and the move to Hollywood in. The breakthrough had Dolores Costello in 1926, when John Barrymore them as leading lady in The Sea Beast, an adaptation of the novel Moby Dick, committed. In the same year she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars.
Dolores Costello was thanks to the success of the biggest female star of the studio and made the transition to talkies without major problems. After she married John Barrymore in 1928, she retired in 1931 from the screen back to worrying about the children. After the divorce in 1935 she returned to mother roles, including in the film adaptation of the classic Little Lord Fauntleroy by David O. Selznick. She took your still most famous role in 1942 in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons. 1943 Dolores ended her film career and retired to their avocado farm in Southern California.
Private
Dolores Costello had with John Barrymore Dolores Ethel Mae, the two children Barrymore and John Drew Barrymore, about which she was the grandmother of Drew Barrymore and John Blyth Barrymore.
Dolores Costello has a star in Hollywood on the Walk of Fame (1645 Vine Street ).