Dorothy Malone

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Dorothy Malone

Born

January 30 1925, age 84
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Awards
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress 1956 Written on the Wind

Dorothy Malone (born January 30 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

Malone was born Dorothy Eloise Maloney in Chicago, Illinois. The 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 a talent agent for RKO and was signed to a studio contract, making her film debut in 1943 in The Falcon and the Co-Eds. Much of her early career was spent in supporting roles in B-movies, many of them Westerns, although on occasion she had the opportunity to play small but memorable roles, such as that of the young, brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart, in 1946.

In 1956, Malone transformed herself into a platinum blonde and shed her good girl-image to co-star with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's melodrama Written on the Wind. Her portrayal of the dipso-nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas oil baron won her the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. As a result, she was offered meatier roles in better films, including Too Much, Too Soon, in which she portrayed Diana Barrymore, Man of a Thousand Faces (with James Cagney), The Tarnished Angels (again with Hudson and Stack, again directed by Sirk), The Last Voyage (with Stack), Warlock, and The Last Sunset (with Hudson).

Malone became a household name when she accepted the lead role of Constance MacKenzie on the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, on which she starred from 1964 through 1968. She had a featured role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. Her last notable screen appearance was as a mother convicted of murdering her family in Basic Instinct (1992) opposite Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.

Malone was married and divorced three times and has two daughters, Mimi and Diane, from her first marriage to actor Jacques Bergerac. Her star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1718 Vine Street.

1 Additional screen credits
2 Additional awards and nominations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Additional screen credits

Night and Day (1946)
Convicted (1950)
Scared Stiff (1953)
Young at Heart (1954)
Battle Cry (1955)
Artists and Models (1955)
The Fast and the Furious (1955)
Sincerely Yours (1955)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Winter Kills (1979)

Awards
Preceded by Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1956 for Written on the Wind	Succeeded by Miyoshi Umeki for Sayonara