Dorothy Mackaill
| Dorothy Mackaill | ||
 Publicity photo of Mackaill from Stars of the Photoplay, 1924 | ||
| Background information | ||
| Born | Mar 4, 1903 Sculcoates, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England | |
| Died | Aug 12, 1990 - age 86 Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | |
| Occupation | Actress | |
| Years active | 1920-1937; 1976-1980 | |
| Spouse(s) | Lothar Mendes (1926 - 1928) div Neil Miller (1931 - 1934) div Harold Patterson (1947 - 1948) div | |
Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress, most notably of the silent-film era and into the early 1930s.
By 1920, Mackaill had begun making the transition from "Follies Girl" to film actress. That same year she appeared in her first film, the Wilfred Noy-directed mystery, "The Face at the Window". Mackaill also appeared in several comedies of 1920 opposite actor Johnny Hines. In 1921 she appeared opposite Anna May Wong, Noah Beery, and Lon Chaney in the Marshall Neilan-directed drama Bits of Life. In the following years, Mackaill would appear opposite such popular actors as Richard Barthelmess, Rod La Rocque, Colleen Moore, John Barrymore, George O'Brien, Bebe Daniels, Milton Sills, and Anna Q. Nilsson.
In 1924, Mackaill rose to a leading lady status in the drama "The Man Who Came Back", opposite rugged matinee idol George O'Brien. Her role as the nightclub chanteuse Marcelle catapulted Mackaill into a genuine Hollywood star and her career continued to flourish throughout the remainder of the 1920s. In early 1924 she starred in the western film, The Mine with the Iron Door, shot on location outside of Tucson, Arizona. That same year she was awarded the WAMPAS Baby Stars award by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored thirteen young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. Other notable recipients of the award that year were Clara Bow, Julanne Johnston and Lucille Ricksen.
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