Dorothy Mackaill

Dorothy Mackaill

Birthday: 1903-03-04

Place of Birth: Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography: 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.

Movies

No Man of Her Own
No Man of Her Own

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman....

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Love Affair
Love Affair

Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses....

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A Woman's Woman
A Woman's Woman

A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son....

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Safe in Hell
Safe in Hell

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the wo...

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The Barker
The Barker

A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far ...

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The Office Wife
The Office Wife

Larry, a publisher, wants Kate to write a book about the 'Office Wife'. An executive stenographer's ...

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Party Husband
Party Husband

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marria...

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Kept Husbands
Kept Husbands

A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in ...

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The Streets of New York
The Streets of New York

Badger, a clerk at a Wall Street brokerage, discovers that his boss Gideon Bloodgood has swindled an...

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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Bulldog Drummond at Bay

Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft....

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The Great Divide
The Great Divide

Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware ...

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The Reckless Hour
The Reckless Hour

Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to dete...

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Curtain at Eight
Curtain at Eight

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? Hi...

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Bright Lights
Bright Lights

A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tu...

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Picture Brides
Picture Brides

Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought ther...

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The Flirting Widow
The Flirting Widow

An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. Howeve...

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Shore Leave
Shore Leave

"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seams...

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Cheaters
Cheaters

A criminal gang is after a rich man's money. A female member of the gang gets the bright idea of get...

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Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's pack...

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The Chief
The Chief

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to be...

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Convoy
Convoy

A German spy matches wits with-and pitches woo to- an American secret agent...

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Man Trouble
Man Trouble

A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love ...

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His Captive Woman
His Captive Woman

Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of ...

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The Whip
The Whip

Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in th...

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Smile, Brother, Smile
Smile, Brother, Smile

A hot young salesman at a cosmetics company finds out that, because the company is losing a lot of m...

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The Love Racket
The Love Racket

A beautiful girl exposes her shameful past to save the life of a girl she has never met....

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Once a Sinner
Once a Sinner

As Diana Barry is preparing to leave New York to marry inventor Tommy Mason she is offered financial...

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One Year to Live
One Year to Live

Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lasc...

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Their Mad Moment
Their Mad Moment

Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Em...

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Hard to Get
Hard to Get

A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire....

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Children of the Ritz
Children of the Ritz

A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses a...

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Strictly Modern
Strictly Modern

Strictly Modern is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring D...

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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Life in Hollywood No. 7

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood....

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Two Weeks Off
Two Weeks Off

Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works a...

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The Fighting Blade
The Fighting Blade

In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerst...

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Complicated Women
Complicated Women

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...

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The Next Corner
The Next Corner

While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who tak...

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His Children's Children
His Children's Children

Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch re...

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The Crystal Cup
The Crystal Cup

A beautiful young girl has been raised by her bitter mother to hate all men, but her beauty means th...

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Ranson's Folly
Ranson's Folly

U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and boa...

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The Dancer of Paris
The Dancer of Paris

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Subway Sadie
Subway Sadie

A New York fur saleswoman falls for a man she meets on the subway and must decide if she wants to ac...

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Lady Be Good
Lady Be Good

Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways....

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The Bridge of Sighs
The Bridge of Sighs

The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter o...

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The Mine with the Iron Door
The Mine with the Iron Door

This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospector...

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Just Another Blonde
Just Another Blonde

Jimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go strai...

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The Making of O'Malley
The Making of O'Malley

A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his new...

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Joanna
Joanna

Joanna Manners is a flapper with a million-dollar figure, million-dollar looks, and a million dollar...

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Mighty Lak' a Rose
Mighty Lak' a Rose

A blind orphan, Rose Duncan, who has a special talent with the violin. Jerome Trevor, a famed pianis...

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The Man Who Came Back
The Man Who Came Back

Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace th...

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Twenty-One
Twenty-One

The McCulloughs agree to separate when Julian is seven years of age. His mother raises him according...

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Torchy's Millions
Torchy's Millions

A 1920 silent comedy short....

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The Lunatic at Large
The Lunatic at Large

Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith (Leon Errol) agrees to trade places with his passenger f...

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The Painted Lady
The Painted Lady

After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to beco...

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The Broken Violin
The Broken Violin

Elderly Jeremy Ellsworth decides to settle his fortune on John and Beatrice, the children of his dis...

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Chickie
Chickie

Young stenographer Chickie Bryce dreams of marrying a millionaire. Until then, though, she is conten...

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The Fair Cheat
The Fair Cheat

Camilla Van Dam is in love with her rich father's poor employee, John Hamilton. Van Dam is against t...

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Neighbors' Wives
Neighbors' Wives

A young woman tries to break up a budding romance between her sweet but naive young sister-in-law an...

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Waterfront
Waterfront

Waterfront is a 1928 silent film released with sound effects and music, produced and released by Fir...

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