Dorothy Malone
Gender: Female
Born: 30th January 1925 (currently 87 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Peyton Place, Murder in Peyton Place, Peyton Place: The Next Generation
Movies: Beach Party, Colorado Territory, Flaxy Martin, Loophole, Private Hell 36, The Big Sleep, The Killer That Stalked New York, The Last Voyage, Written on the Wind, Too Much, Too Soon, The Fast and the Furious, Artists and Models, Man of a Thousand Faces, Warlock, The Last Sunset, Winter Kills, The Tarnished Angels, The Day Time Ended, Law and Order, Five Guns West, Young at Heart, Battle Cry, Night and Day, The Being, Basic Instinct, Pushover, The Lone Gun, Tension at Table Rock, Murder in Peyton Place, Peyton Place: The Next Generation, Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, Tall Man Riding
Dorothy Malone (born January 30, 1925) is an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years she played small roles, mainly in B-movies. After a decade in films, she began to acquire a more glamorous image, particularly after her performance in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her film 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 from 1964 to 1968. Less active in her later years, Malone returned to films in 1992 as the friend of Sharon Stone's character in Basic Instinct.
Malone was born Dorothy Eloise Maloney in Chicago. Her family moved to Dallas, Texas, where she worked as a child model and began acting in school plays at Ursuline Convent and Highland Park High School. While performing at Southern Methodist University, she was spotted by an RKO talent agent and was signed to a studio contract, making her film debut in 1943 in The Falcon and the Co-Eds.
Much of Malone's early career was spent in supporting roles in B-movies, many of them Westerns, although on occasion she played small but
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