Dorothy Mackaill

 Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990)

She was a British-American actress, most notably of the silent-film era and into the early 1930's. Her first job was in the chorus; she then traveled to Paris, where she met a Broadway choreographer who got her a job with the Ziegfeld Follies, in New York. At the Follies, Dorothy became friends with ones of its stars, Marion Davies. By 1921 Dorothy was making movies, but she didn't become a star for three years, with The Man Who Came Back (1924). Other successful films included Chickie (1925), Joanna (1925), and The Dancer of Paris (1926). Her career continued into the beginning the sound era, and her silent film The Barker (1928) was re-shot as a part-talkie. Despite her smooth transition into talking pictures, her contract was not renewed in 1931, following the takeover of her studio (First National Pictures) by Warner Brothers. Perhaps her most memorable role of this era was the 1932 Columbia Pictures B film release Love Affair with a young Humphrey Bogart as her leading man. She made several films for MGM, Paramount and Columbia before retiring in 1937 to care for her aging mother. She moved to Hawaii in 1955, and resided there for the rest of her life. She occasionally came out of retirement to appear in roles for television, notably in two episodes of Hawaii Five-O in 1976 and 1980, which was filmed on location in Hawaii. Mackaill was married three times and had no children. She died there of liver failure in her room at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on August 12, 1990. Her remains were cremated, and scattered in the ocean.