Dorothy Mackaill
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Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress who appeared in the silent film era and early 1930s.
Early life
Mackaill was born in Sculcoates, Kingston upon Hull, 1903 (though she later claimed 1904 or 1905 as her year of birth, including on her application for naturalization as a United States citizen, with 1904 as the year). She attended Thoresby Primary School. Mackaill, a teen, moved to London to pursue a career as an actor.
She performed in Joybelles at London's Hippodrome and appeared in Paris in a few minor Pathé films at age 16. In his Midnight Frolic review, she encountered a Broadway stage choreographer who advised her to move to New York City, where she became a member of the Ziegfeld Follies at the age 17.
Personal life
Mackaill was married three times. Lothar Mendes, a German film director, married her first in 1926 on November 17, 1926. In August 1928, the couple wed in August 1928. She married radio singer Neil Albert Miller on November 4, 1931. In February 1934, the couple married. Harold Patterson, a horticulturist, was the subject of her third and final marriage. In December 1948, she applied for divorce.
Mackaill had no children.
Career
Mackaill had begun converting from "Follies Girl" to a film actress by 1920. The Face at the Window, Wilfred Noy-directed mystery, was her first film in the same year. Mackaill appeared in many comedies starring 1920 opposite actor Johnny Hines. In 1921, she appeared opposite Anna May Wong, Noah Beery, and Lon Chaney in the Marshall Neilan-directed drama Bits of Life. Mackaill will appear opposite Richard Barthelmess, Rod La Rocque, Colleen Moore, John Barrymore, George O'Brien, Bebe Daniels, Milton Sills, and Anna Q. Nilsson in the upcoming years.
Mackaill rose to leading-lady in the drama The Man Who Came Back (1924), opposite rugged matinee idol George O'Brien. In 1924, she appeared in the western film The Mine with the Iron Door, and she also appeared in The Mine with the Iron Door, which was shot on location outside of Tucson, Arizona. Mackaill was given one of its WAMPAS Baby Stars awards in the same year, which each year honored thirteen young women who were not yet film stardom. Clara Bow, Julanne Johnston, and Lucille Ricksen were among the 1924 recipients. Her career flourished during the remainder of the 1920s, when she made a smooth transition to sound with the part-talkie The Barker (1928).
First National Pictures was purchased by Warner Bros in September 1928, but her First National Pictures contract with First National was not renewed in 1931. Love Affair (1932) was her best known role of this period, with a then little-known Humphrey Bogart as her leading man. Prior to retiring in 1937 to care for her ailing mother, she made several films for MGM, Paraphrasedoutput, and Columbia.
Mackaill moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1955. When filming His Captive Woman (1929), she fell in love with the islands. Mackaill spent nearly every day at the luxurious Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki as a kind of celebrity-in-residence, and he loved swimming in the sea.
She occasionally came out of retirement to appear in television series, including two episodes of Hawaii Five-O in 1976 and 1980.