Dolores Costello
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen". She was stepmother of John Barrymore's daughter Diana by his second wife Blanche Oelrichs, the mother of John Drew Barrymore and Dolores (Dee Dee) Barrymore, and the grandmother of John Barrymore III, Blyth Dolores Barrymore, Brahma Blyth (Jessica) Barrymore, and Drew Barrymore. Dolores Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of actors Maurice Costello and Mae Costello (née Altschuk). She was of Irish and German descent. She had a younger sister, Helene, and the two made their first film appearances in the years 1909–1915 as child actresses for the Vitagraph Film Company. They played supporting roles in several films starring their father, who was a popular matinee idol at the time. The two sisters appeared on Broadway together as chlorines and their success resulted in contracts with Warner Brothers Studios. In 1926, following small parts in feature films, she was selected by John Barrymore to star opposite him in The Sea Beast, a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Warner Bros. soon began starring her in her own vehicles. Meanwhile, she and Barrymore became romantically involved and married in 1928. Within a few years of achieving stardom, the delicately beautiful blonde-haired actress had become a successful and highly regarded film personality in her own right. As a young adult her career developed to the degree that in 1926 she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star, and had acquired the nickname "The Goddess of the Silver Screen". Warners alternated Costello between films with contemporary settings and elaborate costume dramas. In 1927 she was re-teamed with John Barrymore in When a Man Loves, an adaptation of Manon Lescaut. In 1928 she co-starred with George O'Brien in Noah's Ark, a part-talkie epic directed by Michael Curtiz. Costello spoke with a lisp and found it difficult to make the transition to talking pictures, but after two years of voice coaching she was comfortable speaking before a microphone. One of her early sound film appearances was with her sister Helene in Warner Bros.'s all-star extravaganza The Show of Shows (1929). Her acting career became less a priority for her following the birth of her first child, Dolores Ethel Mae "DeeDee" Barrymore, on April 8, 1930, and she retired from the screen in 1931 to devote time to her family. Her second child, John Drew Barrymore, was born on June 4, 1932, but the marriage proved difficult due to her husband's increasing alcoholism, and they divorced in 1935. She resumed her career a year later and achieved some successes, most notably in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). She retired permanently from acting following her appearance in This is the Army (1943), again under the direction of Michael Curtiz. In 1950 Costello divorced Dr. John Vruwink, whom she had married in 1939. She spent the remaining years of her life in semi-seclusion, managing an avocado farm. She died from emphysema in Fallbrook, California in 1979.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Film • 1990
jako (archive footage)
Hollywood
Serial • 1980
jako Self
Magic Movie Moments
Film • 1953
The Golden Twenties
Film • 1950
jako Self (archive footage)
This Is the Army
Film • 1943
jako Mrs. Davidson
Wspaniałość Ambersonów
Film • 1942
jako Isabel Amberson Minafer
Outside These Walls
Film • 1939
jako Margaret Bronson
Whispering Enemies
Film • 1939
jako Laura Crandall
King of the Turf
Film • 1939
jako Eve Barnes
Breaking the Ice
Film • 1938
jako Martha Martin
The Beloved Brat
Film • 1938
jako Helen Cosgrove
Yours for the Asking
Film • 1936
jako Lucille Sutton
Młody lord Fauntleroy
Film • 1936
jako 'Dearest' Erroll
Expensive Women
Film • 1931
jako Constance 'Connie' Newton
Second Choice
Film • 1930
jako Vallery Grove
The Show of Shows
Film • 1929
jako Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Hearts in Exile
Film • 1929
jako Vera Zuanova
Madonna of Avenue A
Film • 1929
jako Maria Morton
Glad Rag Doll
Film • 1929
jako Annabel Lee
The Redeeming Sin
Film • 1929
jako Joan Billaire
Noah's Ark
Film • 1928
jako Marie / Miriam
Glorious Betsy
Film • 1928
jako Betsy Patterson
Tenderloin
Film • 1928
jako Rose Shannon
The Circus: Premiere
Film • 1928
jako Self
The College Widow
Film • 1927
jako Jane Witherspoon
Old San Francisco
Film • 1927
jako Dolores Vasquez
When a Man Loves
Film • 1927
jako Manon Lescaut
The Heart of Maryland
Film • 1927
jako Maryland Calvert
A Million Bid
Film • 1927
jako Dorothy Gordon
The Third Degree
Film • 1926
jako Annie Daly
The Little Irish Girl
Film • 1926
jako Dot Walker
Bride of the Storm
Film • 1926
jako Faith Fitzhugh
The Sea Beast
Film • 1926
jako Esther Harper
Mannequin
Film • 1926
jako Joan Herrick
Bobbed Hair
Film • 1925
jako (uncredited)
Greater Than a Crown
Film • 1925
jako Isabel Frances / Princess of Lividia
Lawful Larceny
Film • 1923
jako Nora the maid
The Glimpses of the Moon
Film • 1923
jako Secondary Role
The Heart of Jim Brice
Film • 1915
The Evil Men Do
Film • 1915
jako David - as a Little Boy
Too Much Burglar
Film • 1914
Etta of the Footlights
Film • 1914
Some Steamer Scooping
Film • 1914
jako The Little Stowaway
Fellow Voyagers
Film • 1913
jako Little Dolores Gray
In the Shadow
Film • 1913
jako Neighbor Girl
The Hindoo Charm
Film • 1913
jako Dolores Tilbury - the Older Child
A Birthday Gift
Film • 1913
Ida's Christmas
Film • 1912
jako Ida - the Little Smith Girl
Song of the Shell
Film • 1912
jako Little Bess M.
The Toymaker
Film • 1912
jako Little Dot Avery
The Irony of Fate
Film • 1912
jako Fourth Child
Bobby's Father
Film • 1912
jako Bobby Ramsay
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Film • 1912
jako Ruth - Barnacle's Adopted Daughter
Her Grandchild
Film • 1912
jako Little Janet - the Grandchild
Vultures and Doves
Film • 1912
jako Mrs. Hanley's Little Girl
Wanted... a Grandmother
Film • 1912
A Juvenile Love Affair
Film • 1912
jako Jane - Alvin's Sweetheart
The Money Kings
Film • 1912
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Film • 1912
Lulu's Doctor
Film • 1912
jako Lulu
She Never Knew
Film • 1912
jako Mr. Blinn's Granddaughter
For the Honor of the Family
Film • 1912
jako Alice - the Child
The Meeting of the Ways
Film • 1912
jako One of Tom's Children
Captain Jenks' Dilemma
Film • 1912
jako One of Widow Brown's Children
Some Good in All
Film • 1911
jako Betty Lane - John's Daughter
A Reformed Santa Claus
Film • 1911
jako The Widow's 1st Child
His Sister's Children
Film • 1911
jako Buster aka Budge
The Child Crusoes
Film • 1911
The Geranium
Film • 1911
Consuming Love; or, St. Valentine's Day in Greenaway Land
Film • 1911
The Telephone
Film • 1910
jako Daughter
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Film • 1909
jako Fairy