Dorothy Malone

 Dorothy Malone, born Dorothy Maloney (January 30, 1924 – January 19, 2018)

Signed by RKO at age 18, she made her film debut in Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943). She was credited as Dorothy Maloney in The Falcon and the Co-eds, released shortly thereafter. She later recalled, "I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture. In another film, I was the leader of an all-girl orchestra. The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent" After a decade in films, she began to acquire a more glamorous image, particularly after her performance in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her film career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place from 1964 to 1968. Less active in her later years, Malone returned to films in 1992 as the friend of Sharon Stone's character in Basic Instinct. Malone married actor Jacques Bergerac in June 1959 in Hong Kong, where she was on location for her 1960 film The Last Voyage. They had daughters Mimi and Diane and divorced in December 1964. She then married and divorced Robert Tomarkin and Charles Huston Bell in succession. Malone died on January 19, 2018, at a nursing felicity in Dallas of a long-illness at the age of 93.