Dorothy Malone
Highest Rated: 100% The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Lowest Rated: 40% Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Birthday: Jan 30, 1925
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dorothy Malone was a film star during Hollywood's Golden Age who was best known for her Oscar-winning performance in Douglas Sirk's "Written on the Wind" (1956). Born in Chicago, Malone and her family moved with her family to Dallas when she was six-months old. Tragedy had struck Malone's family early on when two of her sisters died from complications from polio, so Malone grew up knowing how fleeting life was. She decided quite early to make the most of her existence, and quickly settled on becoming a performer. She began modeling for Neiman Marcus as a teenager and after a brief stint at Southern Methodist University, where she majored in drama, Malone was offered a contract with RKO studios at the age of 18. She appeared in a number of films during her year with RKO, most notably 1943's "Higher and Higher," which also starred Frank Sinatra. After one year, however, RKO decided not to renew Malone's contract. Undeterred, Malone signed a new contract with Warner Bros., and quickly raised her acting profile by appearing in films like "Too Young to Know" (1945) and "Frontier Days" (1945). Her first big break came in 1946 when she appeared alongside Humphrey Bogart in the Director Howard Hawks' film "The Big Sleep" (1946). Her role in "The Big Sleep" led to bigger parts in films like the musical comedy "Two Guys from Texas" (1948), which was Malone's first lead role. Malone left Warner Bros. in the late 1940s to become a freelance film actor in Hollywood. She continued nabbing a multitude of roles throughout the 1950s, including "Torpedo Alley" (1952), "Scared Stiff" (1953), and "The Fast and the Furious" (1955), the latter of which was also the first film produced by the legendary producer Roger Corman. Then in 1956 Malone appeared in a supporting role alongside Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall in the Douglas Sirk melodrama "Written on the Wind." The film earned Malone her first and only Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Malone continued acting in films throughout the remainder of the 1950s and early 1960s, but in 1964 she gained renewed attention for her role as Constance Mackenzie on the prime time soap opera "Peyton Place" (ABC, 1964-69). Her role on "Peyton Place" ended in 1968 and Malone spent the next twenty-plus years of her acting career appearing in TV shows, made-for-TV movies, and little seen films. She appeared in only a handful of roles throughout the 1980s, with her last on-screen part being in 1992's "Basic Instinct." Malone spent the remaining years of her life in suburban Dallas, the same place she grew up. She died peacefully at a Dallas nursing facility on January 19, 2018. She was 93.
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Dorothy Malone
Filmography
Movies
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55% |
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Basic Instinct | Hazel Dobkins, Catherine's Friend (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rest in Pieces | Catherine Boyle (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Rest in Pieces | Unknown (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peyton Place: The Next Generation | Constance Carson (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He's Not Your Son | Dr. Sullivan (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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The Pottsville Horror | Marge Smith (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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The Day Time Ended | Ana Williams (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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The Sin | Mildred (Character) | - | 1979 |
92% |
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Winter Kills | Emma Kegan (Character) | $75.6K | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold | Myrtle Cutler (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Ladies of the Night | Maggie (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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Golden Rendezvous | Mrs. Skinner (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in Peyton Place | Constance MacKenzie (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The November Plan | Dawn Archer (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Abduction | Mrs. Prescott (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Would Not Die | Paula Stafford (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pigeon | Elaine Hagen (Character) | - | 1969 |
40% |
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Fate Is the Hunter | Lisa Bond (Character) | - | 1964 |
50% |
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Beach Party | Marianne (Character) | - | 1963 |
60% |
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The Last Sunset | Belle Breckenridge (Character) | - | 1961 |
60% |
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The Last Voyage | Laurie Henderson (Character) | - | 1960 |
80% |
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Warlock | Lily Dollar (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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Too Much, Too Soon | Diana Barrymore (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tip on a Dead Jockey | Phyllis Tredman (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quantez | Chaney (Character) | - | 1957 |
80% |
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Man of a Thousand Faces | Cleva Creighton Chaney (Character) | - | 1957 |
100% |
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The Tarnished Angels | LaVerne Shumann (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pillars of the Sky | Calla Gaxton (Character) | - | 1956 |
88% |
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Written on the Wind | Marylee Hadley (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Tension at Table Rock | Lorna Miller (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Sincerely Yours | Linda Curtis (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Tall Man Riding | Corinna Ordway (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Battle Cry | Mrs. Elaine Yarborough (Character) | - | 1955 |
85% |
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Artists and Models | Abigail 'Abby' Parker (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Five Guns West | Shalee (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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At Gunpoint | Martha Wright (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Loophole | Ruthie Donovan (Character) | - | 1954 |
90% |
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Young at Heart | Fran Tuttle (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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The Fast and the Furious | Connie Adair (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Gun | Charlotte Downing (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Security Risk | Donna Weeks (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Law and Order | Jeannie (Character) | - | 1953 |
71% |
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Scared Stiff | Rosie (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jack Slade | Virginia Maria Dale (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Torpedo Alley | Lt. Susan Peabody (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bushwackers | Unknown (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bushwhackers | Cathy Sharpe (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Convicted | Kay Knowland (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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The Nevadan | Karen Galt (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saddle Legion | Dr. Ann F. Rollins (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone | Lola Gillway (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Flaxy Martin | Nora Carson (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Colorado Territory | Julie Ann Winslow (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Guys From Texas | Joan Winston (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | South of St. Louis | Deborah Miller (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Sunday Afternoon | Amy Lind (Character) | - | 1948 |
96% |
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The Big Sleep | Acme Book Shop Proprietress (Character) | - | 1946 |
60% |
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Night and Day | Nancy (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Janie Gets Married | Sgt. Spud Lee (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frontier Days | Martha Mercer (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
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One Mysterious Night | Eileen Daley (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet |
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The Falcon and the Co-eds | Dorothy (Character) | - | 1943 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Julia Desmond (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Madame Hilary La Salle (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peyton Place |
Constance Mackenzie/ |
1964-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | G.E. Theater | Ellen Rogers (Character) | 1961 |