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.
Dorothy Mackaill Biography / Wiki
Name | Dorothy Mackaill |
Also Know | Дороти МакÑйл |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK |
Date of Birth | 1903-03-03 |
Age(as in 2022) | 87 |
Deathday | 1990-08-12 |
Dorothy Mackaill Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Love Affair | Carol Owen | 1932-03-17 | Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses…. |
Safe in Hell | Gilda Carlson | 1931-12-12 | To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the … |
The Office Wife | Anne Murdock | 1930-08-23 | Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the ‘Office Wife’. An executive stenographer’s duties creates a relationship approaching that of … |
Party Husband | Laura | 1931-06-06 | Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage†whose openness threatens to bring about it… |
Kept Husbands | Dot Parker Brunton | 1931-02-22 | A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner’s wealthy, very spoiled d… |
The Great Divide | Ruth Jordan | 1929-09-15 | Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth… |
The Reckless Hour | Margaret ‘Margie’ Nichols | 1931-08-15 | Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a … |
Bright Lights | Louanne | 1930-09-21 | In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what sh… |
Picture Brides | Mame Smith | 1934-04-23 | Four “Picture Brides”, from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining… |
The Flirting Widow | Celia | 1930-05-11 | An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her…. |
Once a Sinner | DIana Barry | 1931-01-25 | As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial assistance from her ex-lover Dick Kent, who still… |
Two Weeks Off | Kitty Weaver | 1929-05-11 | Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to leave… |
The Crystal Cup | Gita Carteret | 1927-10-16 | A beautiful young girl has been raised by her bitter mother to hate all men, but her beauty means that men are constantly after her. She rejects them … |
Subway Sadie | Sadie Hermann | 1926-09-12 | A New York fur saleswoman falls for a man she meets on the subway and must decide if she wants to accept a much dreamed for work transfer to Paris, or… |
The Bridge of Sighs | 1925-01-01 | The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father’s business manager…. | |
Just Another Blonde | Jeanne Cavanaugh | 1926-12-13 | Jimmy O’Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split 5… |
Joanna | Joanna Manners | 1925-12-14 | Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollars in cash. She falls in love with John Wilmore, a … |
Ladies’ Night in a Turkish Bath | Helen Slocum | 1928-03-31 | Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma’s home cooking, Pa’s packaging design, and pretty daughter Helen’s salesman… |
Man Trouble | Joan | 1930-08-24 | A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel … |
The Barker | Lou | 1928-12-09 | A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he’d hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son’s entanglement wi… |
Bulldog Drummond at Bay | Doris Thompson | 1937-05-01 | Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft…. |
Shore Leave | Connie Martin | 1925-09-05 | “Bilge” Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a boyfri… |
His Captive Woman | 1929-02-03 | Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCar… | |
Smile, Brother, Smile | Mildred Marvin | 1927-09-11 | A hot young salesman at a cosmetics company finds out that, because the company is losing a lot of money, he may soon be out of a job…. |
Their Mad Moment | Emily Stanley | 1931-07-12 | Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir H… |
The Fighting Blade | Thomsine Musgrove | 1923-09-10 | In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around ‘olde Oxford towne’, Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hi… |
Ranson’s Folly | Mary Cahill | 1926-05-30 | U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as “The Red Rider,” and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up a… |
The Dancer of Paris | 1926-02-28 | … | |
Lady Be Good | Mary | 1928-05-06 | Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways…. |
The Mine with the Iron Door | Marta Hillgrove | 1924-10-02 | This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the c… |
The Making of O’Malley | Lucille Thayer | 1925-06-28 | A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his newfound joys…. |
The Man Who Came Back | Marcelle | 1924-08-17 | Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father … |
Twenty-One | Lynnie Willis | 1923-12-17 | Twenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill and Joe King…. |
Torchy’s Millions | 1920-10-03 | A 1920 silent comedy short…. | |
The Lunatic at Large | Beatrix Staynes | 1927-01-02 | Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith (Leon Errol) agrees to trade places with his passenger for financial reasons. Only when the men in the whi… |
Convoy | Sylvia Dodge | 1927-04-24 | A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent… |
No Man of Her Own | Kay Everly | 1932-12-30 | An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he’s a businessman…. |
The Chief | Dixie Dean | 1933-11-03 | The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father’s footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians…. |
The Next Corner | Elsie Maury | 1924-02-18 | While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband mus… |
His Children’s Children | Sheila | 1923-11-04 | Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil … |
Cheaters | Mabel | 1934-05-11 | A criminal gang is after a rich man’s money. A female member of the gang gets the bright idea of getting him to marry her, then getting a healthy sett… |
A Woman’s Woman | Sally Plummer | 1922-09-24 | A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son…. |
Mighty Lak’ a Rose | Rose Duncan | 1923-02-12 | A blind orphan, Rose Duncan, who has a special talent with the violin. Jerome Trevor, a famed pianist, hears her playing and sends her to an uncle in … |
The Streets of New York | Sally Ann | 1922-11-15 | Badger, a clerk at a Wall Street brokerage, discovers that his boss Gideon Bloodgood has swindled an investor, Fairweather, out of his money. Fairweat… |
Curtain at Eight | Lola Cresmer | 1933-10-01 | An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? … |
Life in Hollywood No. 7 | Herself | 1927-08-25 | Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood…. |
Fashion News | Self (1929) | 1928-11-06 | Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color…. |
Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 | A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the … |
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