Dorothy Malone - biography

“I had had no art training.”

“Sirk was every woman’s dream of a director.”

“I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.”

“My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher’s kid.”

“I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.”

“I never turned down a mother role.”

“I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.”

“I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.”

“Television wasn’t prestigious.”

“Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.”

“I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson.  Three times with Glenn Ford.”

“I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.”

“I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.”

“Sinatra asked me out.”

“The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.”

“We had cocktail parties and I’d stay up until 5 in the morning.”

Dorothy Malone has appeared in the following films:
Youth Runs Wild (1944)
Night and Day (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
One Sunday Afternoon (1948)
Colorado Territory (1949)
South of St. Louis (1949)
Convicted (1950)
Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
Saddle Legion (1951)
The Bushwhackers (1952)
Scared Stiff (1953)
Torpedo Alley (1953)
Private Hell 36 (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Young at Heart (1954)
Artists and Models (1955)
At Gunpoint (1955)
Battle Cry (1955)
Five Guns West (1955)
The Fast and the Furious (1955)
Tall Man Riding (1955)
Pillars of the Sky (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Quantez (1957)
Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
Warlock (1959)
The Last Voyage (1960)
The Last Sunset (1961)
Beach Party (1963)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
Abduction (1975)
Golden Rendezvous (1977)
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Winter Kills (1979)
The Being (1983)
Basic Instinct (1992)