Dorothy Mackaill

Actor

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Birth Place

Yorkshire, England, GB

Born

March 04, 1903

Died

August 12, 1990

Biography

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Attractive comic and light dramatic performer--and former Ziegfeld girl--who made her screen debut in England in 1920. Throughout the decade, and into the 1930s, Mackaill appeared in numerous Hollywood entertainments, as lead or supporting lead. Mackaill gave excellent starring performances in such early talkies as "The Office Wife" (1930) and the uniquely grim and memorable melodrama, "...

Filmography

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Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)

Cheaters (1934)

Neighbors' Wives (1933)

Curtain at Eight (1933)

Picture Brides (1933)

The Chief (1933)

Photos & Videos

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No Man Of Her Own (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Only Have Aces And Kings

Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope I Didn't Burn You

Family & Companions

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Lothar Mendes

Husband

Director. Married 1926; divorced in 1928.

Biography

Attractive comic and light dramatic performer--and former Ziegfeld girl--who made her screen debut in England in 1920. Throughout the decade, and into the 1930s, Mackaill appeared in numerous Hollywood entertainments, as lead or supporting lead. Mackaill gave excellent starring performances in such early talkies as "The Office Wife" (1930) and the uniquely grim and memorable melodrama, "Safe in Hell" (1931). She also contributed fine work as the other woman, opposite the up-and-coming Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, in "No Man of Her Own" (1932).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)

Cheaters (1934)

Neighbors' Wives (1933)

Curtain at Eight (1933)

Picture Brides (1933)

The Chief (1933)

Love Affair (1932)

No Man of Her Own (1932)

Once a Sinner (1931)

Party Husband (1931)

Kept Husbands (1931)

Dorothea "Dot" Parker Brunton

The Reckless Hour (1931)

Margaret Nichols

Their Mad Moment (1931)

Safe in Hell (1931)

Man Trouble (1930)

Strictly Modern (1930)

The Office Wife (1930)

The Flirting Widow (1930)

Bright Lights (1930)

His Captive Woman (1929)

Two Weeks Off (1929)

The Love Racket (1929)

Children of the Ritz (1929)

Angela Pennington

The Great Divide (1929)

Hard To Get (1929)

The Barker (1928)

Lady Be Good (1928)

Waterfront (1928)

Peggy Ann Andrews

The Whip (1928)

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)

The Lunatic at Large (1927)

Beatrix Staynes

Smile, Brother, Smile (1927)

Man Crazy (1927)

Clarissa Janeway

The Crystal Cup (1927)

The Cyrstal Cup (1927)

The Dancer of Paris (1926)

Ranson's Folly (1926)

Just Another Blonde (1926)

Jeanne Cavanaugh

Subway Sadie (1926)

One Year To Live (1925)

The Making of O'Malley (1925)

Shore Leave (1925)

The Bridge of Sighs (1925)

The Painted Lady (1924)

The Man Who Came Back (1924)

The Mine with the Iron Door (1924)

What Shall I Do? (1924)

The Next Corner (1924)

The Fighting Blade (1923)

Thomsine Musgrove

The Broken Violin (1923)

Constance Morley

Mighty Lak' a Rose (1923)

His Children's Children (1923)

The Fair Cheat (1923)

Twenty-One (1923)

The Inner Man (1922)

The Streets of New York (1922)

Isle of Doubt (1922)

Eleanor Warburton

A Woman's Woman (1922)

Bits of Life (1921)

Life Events

1930

Starred in "The Office Wife"

1938

Retired from films

Photo Collections

Love Affair (1932) - Movie Poster

Love Affair (1932) - Movie Poster

Love Affair (1932) - Lobby Cards

Love Affair (1932) - Lobby Cards

No Man of Her Own - Lobby Cards

Here are several lobby cards from Paramount's No Man of Her Own (1932), starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

No Man Of Her Own (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Only Have Aces And Kings High dollar gambling in Manhattan, the relationships revealed for the benefit of the losing Morton (Walter Walker), Clark Gable as Stewart, Dorothy Mackaill as dishy Kay, Grant Mitchell her uncle, all not as it seems, Wesley Ruggles directing, opening No Man Of Her Own, 1932, co-starring Carole Lombard.

Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope I Didn't Burn You We immediately suspect that Doris (Dorothy Mackaill), acting like she has car trouble as she appears at the hero’s remote house on the Scottish moors, is linked to the skulduggery of the night before, the title character (John Lodge) playing it cagey, in Bulldog Drummond At Bay, 1937.

Reckless Hour, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) With Dishonorable Intentions Clever opening, with Dorothy Mackaill introduced in a capacity not immediately apparent as Margaret, several uncredited speaking parts before Walter Byron, as freewheeling Allen, appears, in the First National/Warner Bros. pre-code potboiler The Reckless Hour, 1931, featuring Joan Blondell.

Reckless Hour, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) We Use Cigar Coupons Snappy introduction of Joan Blondell as sister Myrtle, and Helen Ware as mom Harriet, as heroine Margaret (Dorothy Mackaill) returns to the New Jersey family home, father (H.B. Warner) presiding and eager Harry (Joe Donahue) visiting, in Warner Bros.' The Reckless Hour, 1931.

Reckless Hour, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) I Saw Her First Non-affluent Jersey girl Margaret (Dorothy Mackaill) on the town with her playboy date Allen (Walter Byron), who runs into his married illustrator pal Ed (Conrad Nagel), and isn't entirely kidding when he asserts his claim, in the pre-Code melodrama The Reckless Hour, 1931.

Kept Husbands (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Easy Things Aren't Much Good Dot (Dorothy Mackaill), daughter of steel magnate Parker (Robert McWade), swoons in the presence of Dick (Joel McCrea), her father's hero employee invited to the house for dinner, soon realizing he's also a football hero, his first scene in director Lloyd Bacon's Kept Husbands, 1931.

Kept Husbands (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Good Fortune For The Bride Young steel-worker Dick (Joel McCrea) informs mother (Mary Carr) that he's marrying the boss' daughter Dorothy (Dorothy Mackaill), all but his father (apparently un-credited), who also works at the mill, evidently not troubled, in Kept Husbands, 1931.

Kept Husbands (1931) -- (Movie Clip) My Pansy Is Dying! Newlyweds shopping in Paris, middle class Dick (Joel McCrea) and affluent Dot (Dorothy Mackaill) are alarmed when her snooty friend Lucille (Clara Kimball Young) lights into her less munificent husband Llewelyn (Freeman Wood), discussion following, in RKO's Kept Husbands, 1931.

Safe In Hell (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Why You Dirty Little... Sailor boyfriend Carl (Donald Cook) has unexpectedly returned to Gilda (Dorothy Mackaill), who's forced to admit what she's been up to, early in William A. Wellman's Safe In Hell, 1931.

Safe In Hell (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Show Him A Good Time Following a quick opening establishing New Orleans, call girl Gilda (Dorothy Mackaill) is surprised to find the client is ex-beau Piet (Ralf Harolde), who led her astray, in William A. Wellman's pre-code sizzler Safe In Hell, 1931.

Safe In Hell - (Original Trailer) A prostitute on the lam hides out in a tropical haven for outlaws in the pre-code drama Safe In Hell (1931).

Office Wife, The - (Original Trailer) A gold-digging secretary (Dorothy Mackaill) sets out to lure her boss and turn herself into The Office Wife (1930).

Companions

Lothar Mendes

Husband

Director. Married 1926; divorced in 1928.

Bibliography

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