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Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American stage and film actress and radio performer.

Early life

Career

West was a star in Biograph silent films in New York. She later relocated to Hollywood with a group of D.W. Griffith stars that included Mary Pickford, Marion Leonard, Florence Barker, and Mack Sennett in 1909.^[2]^[3] West, Pickford, Pickford's brother Jack, and Effie Johnson boarded together.^[3]

She joined a stock theatre company in Mount Vernon, Illinois;^[1] then joined the Pitt Stock Players in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;^[4] and in also performed in theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.^[1]

West returned to film several years later. West received positive notice for her work in Griffith's His Mother's Scarf (1911)^[5] Swords and Hearts (1911)^[6] and The Eternal Grind (1916).^[7]

West left films again to tour in theatre productions in Europe after World War I with the American Army of Occupation,^[1] including in Germany.^[8]

She also worked on Broadway^[9] and with a theatre company called The Triangle Players.^[10] She performed in the short play Sintram of Skaggerack by Sada Cowan in 1923.^[11]

She made her radio debut in 1928.^[1]

Selected filmography

The Girl and the Outlaw (1908)
The Guerrilla (1908)
An Awful Moment (1908)
One Touch of Nature (1909)
Love Finds a Way (1909)
Those Boys! (1909)
The Girls and Daddy (1909)
The Brahma Diamond (1909)
His Wife's Mother (1909)
The Roue's Heart (1909)
I Did It (1909)
The Deception (1909)
A Burglar's Mistake (1909)
The Cord of Life (1909)
The Day After (1909)
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
In the Border States (1910)
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)^[12]
His Mother's Scarf (1911)
Swords and Hearts (1911)
The Habit of Happiness (1916)
The Eternal Grind (1916)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "From Alabam'". Burlington Hawk Eye October 28, 1928. October 28, 1928. p. 19. Retrieved April 21, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.
^ "Hollywood's 3d of a Century". Variety. Vol. 133, no. 4. January 4, 1939. p. 5 – via Proquest.
^ ^a ^b Arvidson, Linda (1969) [1925]. When the movies were young. Dover Publications.
^ Zimmerman, M.K. (November 22, 1913). "Pittsburgh, PA". The Billboard. Vol. 25, no. 47. p. 18 – via Proquest.
^ "Notable Attractions at the Picture House". The Syracuse Herald. April 2, 1916. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.
^ Denig, Lynde (April 15, 1916). "Biograph Reissues for May: More Griffith Subjects with Casts That Mean Much to Followers of the Screen". The Moving Picture World. p. 457.
^ "Mary Pickford at Stanley". The Philadelphia Inquirer. April 11, 1916. p. 5. Retrieved April 22, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.
^ "Dramatic Stock: American Stock in Germany". The Billboard. Vol. 19, no. 32. May 8, 1920. p. 12 – via Proquest.
^ "Fine Triangle Films". The Billboard. Vol. 28, no. 14. April 1, 1916. p. 58 – via Proquest.
^ "Legitimate: Little Theatres". Variety. Vol. 70, no. 13. May 17, 1923. pp. 16, 33 – via Proquest.
^ Gillette, Don Carle (May 19, 1923). "The Triangle Players". Vol. 35, no. 20. p. 10 – via Proquest.
^ Keil, Charlie; Singer, Ben (2009). American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4445-8.