Dorothy West (actress)
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Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, as well as a radio performer.
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Early life
Dorothy West grew up in Huntsville, Alabama.[1]
Career
West was a star in Biograph silent films in New York. She later relocated to Hollywood with a group of D. W. Griffith stars that included Mary Pickford, Marion Leonard, Florence Barker, and Mack Sennett in 1909.[2][3] West, Pickford, Pickford's brother Jack, and Effie Johnson boarded together.[3]
She joined a stock theatre company in Mount Vernon, Illinois[1] then joined the Pitt Stock Players in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[4] She also performed in theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1]
West returned to film several years later and received positive notice for her work in Griffith's His Mother's Scarf (1911)[5] Swords and Hearts (1911)[6] and The Eternal Grind (1916),[7] then left films again to tour in theatre productions in Europe after World War I with the American Army of Occupation,[1] including in Germany.[8]
She also worked on Broadway[9] and with a theatre company called The Triangle Players.[10] She performed in the short play Sintram of Skaggerack by Sada Cowan in 1923.[11]
She made her radio debut in 1928.[1]
Selected filmography
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- The Girl and the Outlaw (1908)
- The Guerrilla (1908)
- An Awful Moment (1908)
- One Touch of Nature (1909)
- Love Finds a Way (1909)
- Those Boys! (1909)
- The Girls and Daddy (1909)
- The Brahma Diamond (1909)
- His Wife's Mother (1909)
- The Roue's Heart (1909)
- I Did It (1909)
- The Deception (1909)
- A Burglar's Mistake (1909)
- The Cord of Life (1909)
- The Day After (1909)
- The Unchanging Sea (1910)
- In the Border States (1910)
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910)[12]
- Heart Beats of Long Ago (1911)
- His Mother's Scarf (1911)
- Swords and Hearts (1911)
- The Habit of Happiness (1916)
- The Eternal Grind (1916)
References
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External links
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