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Marie Doro is a Actor American born on 24 may 1882 at Duncannon (USA)
Marie Doro (May 25, 1882 – October 9, 1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era.
She was born to Virginia Weaver and Richard Henry Stewart. She was a direct descendant of Patrick Henry. She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty.
On Frohman's death in the Lusitania in 1915, she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor, though most of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances.
In the early 1950s author Daniel Blum interviewed and included her in his book Great Stars of the American Stage, an homage to many theatre performers, some dead, some still living at the time like Doro. Blum wrote a quick and mostly accurate rundown of her life and career and included several portraits from her Broadway years. He also included an early 1950s photo for fans who remembered but hadn't seen her in decades.
She was briefly married to the vaudeville and silent screen actor Elliott Dexter; the marriage soon ended in divorce. The marriage produced no children and Doro never remarried.
Her name was linked over the years to much older William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, who was consistently linked by the press with his leading ladies. The two appeared in The Admirable Crichton in 1903, in which the young Doro had a small part, Clarice and Sherlock Holmes in 1905-06, and Diplomacy in 1914. She also starred in Gillette's 1910 production of Electricity.
On a tour of England, she acted with the unknown teenage Charlie Chaplin, who was besotted with her. Later, when he was famous, they met in America, but she had to confess that she had no memory of him.
Doro was a Dresden doll-like brunette, described by drama critic William Winter as “a young actress of piquant beauty, marked personality and rare expressiveness of countenance.”
She was talented, beautiful and a star in her own right. The few silent films of hers that survive show a gifted natural actress who did not always get the best parts.
Lowell Thomas, the traveler, writer, and broadcaster, knew Doro well, saying that “her fragile-looking type of pulchritude caused her to be cast in usually insipid, pretty-pretty rôles.” Offstage, she was intelligent, an expert on Shakespeare and Elizabethan poetry, and possessed a penetrating humor and a sometimes acid wit. “She became associated with Gillette quite early in her career and he, a man of strong and powerful mind, exercised considerable influence over her development.”
As she later admitted, “For years I was hypnotized by two men – Frohman and William Gillette.”
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Marie Doro
Birth name Marie Katherine Steward
Nationality USA
Birth 24 may 1882 at Duncannon (USA)
Death 9 october 1956 (at 74 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 24 may 1882 at Duncannon (USA)
Death 9 october 1956 (at 74 years) at New York City (USA)
She was born to Virginia Weaver and Richard Henry Stewart. She was a direct descendant of Patrick Henry. She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty.
On Frohman's death in the Lusitania in 1915, she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor, though most of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances.
In the early 1950s author Daniel Blum interviewed and included her in his book Great Stars of the American Stage, an homage to many theatre performers, some dead, some still living at the time like Doro. Blum wrote a quick and mostly accurate rundown of her life and career and included several portraits from her Broadway years. He also included an early 1950s photo for fans who remembered but hadn't seen her in decades.
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Marie Doro was born as Marie Katherine Steward to Richard Henry Stewart and Virginia Weaver in Duncannon, Pennsylvania and began her career as a theater actress under the management of Charles Frohman before progressing to motion pictures in 1915, under contract with film producer Adolph Zukor.She was briefly married to the vaudeville and silent screen actor Elliott Dexter; the marriage soon ended in divorce. The marriage produced no children and Doro never remarried.
Her name was linked over the years to much older William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, who was consistently linked by the press with his leading ladies. The two appeared in The Admirable Crichton in 1903, in which the young Doro had a small part, Clarice and Sherlock Holmes in 1905-06, and Diplomacy in 1914. She also starred in Gillette's 1910 production of Electricity.
On a tour of England, she acted with the unknown teenage Charlie Chaplin, who was besotted with her. Later, when he was famous, they met in America, but she had to confess that she had no memory of him.
Doro was a Dresden doll-like brunette, described by drama critic William Winter as “a young actress of piquant beauty, marked personality and rare expressiveness of countenance.”
She was talented, beautiful and a star in her own right. The few silent films of hers that survive show a gifted natural actress who did not always get the best parts.
Lowell Thomas, the traveler, writer, and broadcaster, knew Doro well, saying that “her fragile-looking type of pulchritude caused her to be cast in usually insipid, pretty-pretty rôles.” Offstage, she was intelligent, an expert on Shakespeare and Elizabethan poetry, and possessed a penetrating humor and a sometimes acid wit. “She became associated with Gillette quite early in her career and he, a man of strong and powerful mind, exercised considerable influence over her development.”
As she later admitted, “For years I was hypnotized by two men – Frohman and William Gillette.”
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Sally Bishop (1923)
Directed by Maurice Elvey
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Marie Doro, Henry Ainley, Florence Turner
Roles Sally Bishop
12.10 (1919)
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Marie Doro, Ben Webster, Frederick Kerr, Geoffrey Kerr, James Carew
Roles Marie Fernando
Lost and Won (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by Frank Reicher, James Young, Cecil B. DeMille, W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marie Doro, Elliott Dexter, Mabel Van Buren, Mayme Kelso, Carl Stockdale, Clarence Geldart
Roles Cinders
Rating69%
Castles for Two (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by Frank Reicher
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marie Doro, Elliott Dexter, Mayme Kelso, Lillian Leighton, Jane Wolfe, Horace B. Carpenter
Roles Patricia Calhoun
Rating61%
The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916)
, 1h4Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marie Doro, Elliott Dexter, Ernest Joy, Charles West, Billy Jacobs, Lola May
Roles Nora Flynn
Rating64%
Nora Flynn (Marie Doro) est une jeune Irlandaise, gouvernante chez les Stone, une riche famille américaine. Elle est très attachée aux deux enfants et fait des projets avec Nolan, le chauffeur (Elliott Dexter). Pour sa part, la maîtresse de maison est très insatisfaite et songe à s'enfuir avec Jack Murray, son amant. Mais son mari, et le chauffeur, réapparaissent au moment crucial...
Common Ground (1916)
, 50minutesDirected by William C. de Mille
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marie Doro, Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Horace B. Carpenter
Roles The Kid
Diplomacy (1916)
, 50minutesDirected by Sidney Olcott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Marie Doro, Elliott Dexter, Russell Bassett, Frank Losee, Ruth Rose
Roles Dora
The Wood Nymph (1916)
Directed by Paul Powell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Marie Doro, Frank Campeau, Wilfred Lucas, Charles West
Roles Daphne
Oliver Twist (1916)
Directed by James Young, W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Marie Doro, Tully Marshall, Hobart Bosworth, Raymond Hatton, James Neill, Edythe Chapman
Roles Oliver Twist
Rating69%
The Morals of Marcus (1915)
Directed by Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Marie Doro, Ida Darling, Russell Bassett, Julian L'Estrange, Wellington A. Playter, Helen Freeman
Roles Carlotta
The White Pearl (1915)
Directed by Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Marie Doro, Thomas Holding, Cesare Gravina
Roles Nancy Marvell
Rating31%