16 Facts About Dorothy Mackaill

Dorothy Mackaill was a British-American actress, most active during the silent-film era and into the pre-Code era of the early 1930s.

Dorothy Mackaill attended nearby Thoresby Primary School, where she is commemorated with a blue plaque.

In one account of her teenage years, Dorothy Mackaill ran away to London to pursue a stage career as an actress.

At age 16, Dorothy Mackaill danced in Joybelles at London's Hippodrome and worked in Paris acting in a few minor Pathe films.

Dorothy Mackaill met a Broadway stage choreographer who persuaded her to migrate to New York City at 17, where she became active in the Ziegfeld Follies, dancing in his Midnight Frolic review.

Dorothy Mackaill appeared in several comedies of 1920 opposite actor Johnny Hines.

Dorothy Mackaill rose to leading-lady status in the drama The Man Who Came Back, opposite rugged matinee idol George O'Brien.

Dorothy Mackaill's career continued to flourish throughout the remainder of the 1920s, as she made a smooth transition to sound with the part-talkie The Barker.

Dorothy Mackaill made several films for MGM, Paramount and Columbia before retiring in 1937, to care for her ailing mother.

Dorothy Mackaill had fallen in love with the islands while filming His Captive Woman.

Dorothy Mackaill lived at the luxurious Royal Hawaiian Hotel on the beach at Waikiki as a sort of celebrity-in-residence and enjoyed swimming in the ocean nearly every day.

Dorothy Mackaill occasionally came out of retirement to appear in television productions, including two episodes of Hawaii Five-O in 1976 and 1980.

Dorothy Mackaill became a naturalized United States citizen in 1926, giving 1904 as her year of birth, and her age as 22.

Dorothy Mackaill resided in Honolulu, Hawaii, during the last 35 years of her life.

Dorothy Mackaill died there of liver failure in her room at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on August 12,1990.

Dorothy Mackaill was cremated and her ashes scattered off Waikiki Beach.