Dorothy Malone's career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place.
37 Facts About Dorothy Malone
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Dorothy Malone had been one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Dorothy Malone made her film debut in Gildersleeve on Broadway.
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Dorothy Malone made a brief uncredited appearance in One Mysterious Night, a Boston Blackie film for Columbia.
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Dorothy Malone first achieved notice when Howard Hawks cast her as the bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart.
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Dorothy Malone appeared in One Sunday Afternoon with Dennis Morgan and Janis Paige for director Raoul Walsh; this was a remake of The Strawberry Blonde, with Malone playing the part played by Olivia de Havilland in the original.
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Dorothy Malone stayed at that studio for Convicted and The Killer That Stalked New York.
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Dorothy Malone made Mrs O'Malley and Mr Malone at MGM and played Tim Holt's love interest in RKO's Saddle Legion and John Ireland's love interest in The Bushwackers.
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Dorothy Malone began acting on television while continuing to appear in films, guest-starring on shows such as The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, and Kraft Theatre.
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Dorothy Malone relocated to New York City for several months to study acting until producer Hal B Wallis called her back to appear in Scared Stiff starring the comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
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Dorothy Malone appeared in a war film, Torpedo Alley for Allied Artists.
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Dorothy Malone was a love interest in Westerns with Ronald Reagan and Mark Stevens.
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Dorothy Malone was in the thriller Loophole, billed second.
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Dorothy Malone did episodes of The Doctor, Omnibus ; Four Star Theatre, Fireside Theatre, Lux Video Theatre, The Christophers, and General Electric Theatre.
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Dorothy Malone was reunited with Sinatra in Young at Heart, as a co-star.
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Dorothy Malone had a leading part in Battle Cry, playing a married woman who has an affair with a young soldier during World War II, a box-office hit.
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Dorothy Malone then returned to Westerns: At Gunpoint, with MacMurray; Tension at Table Rock, with Richard Egan; and Pillars of the Sky with Jeff Chandler.
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Dorothy Malone transformed herself into a platinum blonde and shed her "good girl" image when she co-starred with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's drama Written on the Wind.
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Dorothy Malone was given the important role of Diana Barrymore in the biopic Too Much, Too Soon, but the film was not a success.
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Dorothy Malone appeared in Warlock, but went back to guest starring on such television programs as Cimarron City and Alcoa Theatre.
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Dorothy Malone made a third film with Stack, The Last Voyage, and a third with Hudson, The Last Sunset.
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Dorothy Malone was in the first Beach Party movie, doing most of her scenes with Robert Cummings.
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Dorothy Malone made an uncredited cameo appearance in Fate Is the Hunter.
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Dorothy Malone agreed for $3,000 a week less than ABC's offer of $10,000 weekly, if she could be home nightly for 6 pm dinner with her two daughters and no shooting on weekends.
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Dorothy Malone sued 20th Century Fox for $1.6 million for breach of contract; it was settled out of court.
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Dorothy Malone later returned to the role in the TV movies Murder in Peyton Place and Peyton Place: The Next Generation.
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Dorothy Malone featured in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man and guest-starred on Police Woman and The Streets of San Francisco.
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Dorothy Malone was in the TV movie Murder in Peyton Place and had a supporting role in Golden Rendezvous.
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Dorothy Malone was in the Canadian soap opera High Hopes and had supporting parts in Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, Winter Kills, and The Day Time Ended, and the miniseries Condominium.
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In 1981, Dorothy Malone made her stage debut in Butterflies Are Free in Winnipeg.
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Dorothy Malone was a Democrat and campaigned for Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.
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Dorothy Malone then married New York businessman and broker Robert Tomarkin on April 3,1969, at the Silver Bells Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Dorothy Malone married Dallas motel chain executive Charles Huston Bell on October 2,1971, and they divorced after three years.
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Around 1971, Dorothy Malone moved her daughters from Southern California to suburban Dallas, Texas, where she had been raised.
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Dorothy Malone died of natural causes on January 19,2018,10 days before her 94th birthday, at a nursing facility in Dallas.
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Dorothy Malone is entombed at Calvary Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Dallas.
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Dorothy Malone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1718 Vine in the Motion Pictures section.