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Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, with the exception of a supporting role in The Big Sleep (1946). After a decade, she changed her image, particularly after her role in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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entertainment · American actress (1924–2018) · actor · television actor · film actor · also Dorothy Malone, Dorothy Eloise Maloney, Malone
Born 29 January 1924 · Died 19 January 2018 · Q230126
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2018· 1 entry
Died 2018-01-19.
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1985· 1 entry
Changed her surname "from Maloney to Malone
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1984· 1 entry
Due to illness, but Malone declined
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1981· 1 entry
Malone made her stage debut in Butterflies Are Free in Winnipeg
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1971· 1 entry
“I had a tendency to endow a man qualities he did not possess.”
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1969· 1 entry
At the Silver Bells Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
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1968· 1 entry
Was written out of the show after complaining that she was given little to do
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1959· 1 entry
At a Catholic church in Hong Kong, where she was on location for her 1960 film The Last Voyage
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Written on the Wind (1957).
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1943· 1 entry
And in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, with the exception of a supporting role in The Big Sleep (1946)
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1924· 2 entries
In Chicago, one of five children born to Esther Emma "Eloise" Smith and her husband Robert Ignatius Maloney, an auditor for AT&T Corporation
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Born 1924-01-29.
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