Dorothy Malone

Dorothy Malone, Dorothy Eloise Maloney actually, ( born January 30, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American actress.

Life

Dorothy Malone became interested in acting from an early age in school plays. The first steps in show business she made as a model for children's fashion. For the film, she was discovered in a student production, but declined a contract with a Hollywood studio from. They only wanted to complete a thorough training (dance and vocal training ). In the large studio RKO she was then taken under contract after an agent saw her in the theater.

From 1945 she worked for the Warner Brothers Studios; some minor roles followed, as in The Big Sleep. The breakthrough in Hollywood should succeed only with the written representation of a nymphomaniac heiress of an oil empire in the film Into the wind but her. The Oscar she got for this film, proved to be career -inflammatory. The following deals were no longer the quality of this film. Thus, Malone sought other roles. In 1964, she played for four years on the soap opera Peyton Place Constance MacKenzie. In the 1970s, she appeared only sporadically in films.

Privately, she was married in first marriage to actor Jacques Bergerac ( 1959-1964 ). From this connection, her two daughters Mimi come ( b. 1960 ) and Diane ( b. 1961 ). In his second marriage in 1969 she married the banker Robert Tomarkin. The marriage was annulled again in the same year. Her third marriage, she joined in 1971 with Charles H. Bell, she held until 1974.

Filmography

Awards

  • Oscar 1957 written for In the Wind
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