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| Isn't she enchanting? This is silent movie and Broadway star Marie Doro. I've used this lovely portrait before at TEMPESTUOUS MUSE, but I wanted to revisit it. link |
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Most of her films are lost, like so many other silent films. She was very famous and a household name in her day--but in later years she faded into obscurity. link
She was born in Pennsylvania in 1882. She began acting in the theater as a chorus girl, but was soon discovered and made a star on Broadway. After that, she began a career in films. |
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| 'The White Pearl' 1915 link |
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| 'The Wood Nymph' 1916 link |
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| 'She was so devastatingly beautiful that I resented her.' --Charlie Chaplin link |
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| 'Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty.' link Whilst most of her films are gone, we still can treasure these hauntingly beautiful pictures of her. I think this picture is from her film, Sherlock Holmes. link |
Strange Doro trivia fact: she played the role of Oliver Twist, a starveling London urchin, in a film version of the Dickens' novel, when she was twenty-five years old. Did she carry it off? We'll never know. The film is lost.
'Offstage, she was intelligent, an expert on Shakespeare and Elizabethan poetry, and possessed a penetrating humor and a sometimes acid wit.' link Doro was a Dresden doll-like brunette, described by drama critic
William Winter as “a young actress of piquant beauty, marked personality and rare expressiveness of countenance.” link
Marie, who died a forgotten woman, has a new life now on the interwebs.
Her beautiful portraits cause many to pause, stare and marvel at her fascinating images.
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