Dolores Costello

Actor

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Also Known As

Dolores Costello Barrymore

Birth Place

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Born

September 17, 1905

Died

March 01, 1979

Biography

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Dolores Costello was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. In her early acting career, Costello appeared in such films as "The Sea Beast" (1926), "Old San Francisco" (1927) and "The College Widow" (1927). Her film career continued throughout the twenties and the forties in productions like "Glorious Betsy" (1928), "Noah's Ark" (1929) and "The Show of Shows" (1929) with ...

Filmography

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This Is the Army (1943)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Isabel [Amberson Minafer]

Outside These Walls (1939)

Margaret Bronson

Whispering Enemies (1939)

King of the Turf (1939)

Mrs. [Eve] Barnes

The Beloved Brat (1938)

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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Defy You All!

When A Man Loves (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Temptations Of The Flesh

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John Barrymore

Husband

Actor. Married 1928-35.

John Vruwink

Husband

Physician.

Biography

Dolores Costello was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. In her early acting career, Costello appeared in such films as "The Sea Beast" (1926), "Old San Francisco" (1927) and "The College Widow" (1927). Her film career continued throughout the twenties and the forties in productions like "Glorious Betsy" (1928), "Noah's Ark" (1929) and "The Show of Shows" (1929) with Frank Fay. She also appeared in the Freddie Bartholomew dramatic adaptation "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1936), "Breaking the Ice" (1938) with Bobby Breen and "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942). Costello last acted in the Irving Berlin musical "This Is the Army" (1943). Costello's husband was John Barrymore and Costello had two children. Costello passed away in March 1979 at the age of 74.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

This Is the Army (1943)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Isabel [Amberson Minafer]

Outside These Walls (1939)

Margaret Bronson

Whispering Enemies (1939)

King of the Turf (1939)

Mrs. [Eve] Barnes

The Beloved Brat (1938)

Breaking the Ice (1938)

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

"Dearest" [Mrs. Errol]

Yours for the Asking (1936)

Expensive Women (1931)

Constance "Connie" Newton

Second Choice (1930)

The Show of Shows (1929)

The Redeeming Sin (1929)

The Glad Rag Doll (1929)

The Madonna of Avenue A (1929)

Hearts in Exile (1929)

Noah's Ark (1929)

Tenderloin (1928)

Glorious Betsy (1928)

Betsy Patterson

When a Man Loves (1927)

A Million Bid (1927)

Old San Francisco (1927)

Dolores Vásquez

The College Widow (1927)

Jane Witherspoon

The Heart of Maryland (1927)

Maryland Calvert

The Sea Beast (1926)

The Little Irish Girl (1926)

The Third Degree (1926)

Bride of the Storm (1926)

Mannequin (1926)

Joan Herrick [Orchid]

Greater Than a Crown (1925)

The Glimpses of the Moon (1923)

Lawful Larceny (1923)

How Cissy Made Good (1915)

The Telephone (1910)

Cast (Short)

Thrills from the Past (1954)

Magic Movie Moments (1953)

Life Events

Videos

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Defy You All! After an opening detailing the death of her British soldier husband, "dearest" mother (Dolores Costello) and aide Mary (Una O'Connor) in Brooklyn prepare their gift for young Ceddie (Freddie Bartholemew), who arrives reading Robin Hood, in David O. Selznick's Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1936.

When A Man Loves (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Temptations Of The Flesh Introduction of leading man John Barrymore, meeting Manon (Dolores Costello), en route to life in a convent, in the hit Warner Brothers treatment of Manon Lescaut, the 1731 novel by the Abbe Prevost, restored by UCLA and the George Eastman House, When A Man Loves, 1927.

When A Man Loves (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Too Frail To Please Manon (Dolores Costello), having escaped from her brother (Warner Oland), who’s trying to sell her into prostitution, searches for her lover Fabien (John Barrymore), who’s been tricked into believing she left him, winding up in the same Paris tavern, in Warner Brothers’ When A Man Loves, 1927.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Your Devilish Machines Major Amberson (Richard Bennett) leads the dinner conversation in which the affronted George (Tim Holt) insults automobile entrepeneur Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Very Well Indeed! Director Orson Welles' narration and shooting set up George Amberson (Tim Holt) in his single-minded greetings to Eugene (Joseph Cotten), the one-time beau of his society-matron mother (Dolores Costello), and his daughter Lucy (Anne Baxter) in The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942.

When A Man Loves (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Please Trust Me As A Friend Fabien (John Barrymore), entranced by the beauty of Manon (Dolores Costello), abandons his pursuit of the priesthood and rescues her from her brother (Warner Oland), who’s just sold her into prostitution, in 18th century France, in When A Man Loves, 1927, adapted from Manon Lescaut.

When A Man Loves (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Two Innocents Having met that day and escaped, her from being sold into de facto prostitution and him from enrollment in seminary, Manon (Dolores Costello) and Fabien (John Barrymore) arrive in Paris ca. 1730, learning about one another, in Warner Brothers’ When A Man Loves, 1927.

When A Man Loves (1927) -- (Movie Clip) When We Are Rich Impoverished after escaping to 1730’s Paris, unmarried Fabien (John Barrymore) and Manon (Dolores Costello) happily pretend they can raise the rent, when her evil brother (Warner Oland) appears, looking to deliver her to a lecherous nobleman, in When A Man Loves, 1927.

Noah's Ark (1929) -- (Movie Clip) God Walked With Japheth A sample of director Michael Curtiz's gigantic flood and Warner Bros.' special effects, George O'Brien as Japheth, the enslaved son of Noah, seeking his betrothed Miriam (Dolores Costello), as the deluge begins, in Noah's Ark, 1929.

Noah's Ark (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Your Young American Friend Myrna Loy in one of her earliest speaking roles, with fellow canteen-dancer Mary (Dolores Costello), who meets evil Russian Nickoloff (Noah Beery), on the Belgian front circa 1917, in the silent-and-talking Noah's Ark, 1929.

Noah's Ark (1929) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Traitor Not To Go! American ex-Pats in Paris, Mary (Dolores Costello) and Travis (George O'Brien) watch the doughboys (Guinn Big-Boy Williams as "Al") march in, from Michael Curtiz's silent/talkie epic Noah's Ark, 1929.

Old San Francisco -- (Movie Clip) Earthquake Dolores (Dolores Costello) just happens to be praying and villain Buckwell (Warner Oland) looks uncomfortable when the earthquake strikes in Darryl F. Zanuck's Old San Francisco, 1927.

Magnificent Ambersons, The - (Original Trailer) A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).

This Is The Army - (Original Trailer) Irving Berlin's giant Broadway revue This Is The Army (1943) featuring a galaxy of stars mixing with servicemen.

Family

Maurice Costello

Father

Actor. Born 1887; died 1950.

Mae Altschul

Mother

Actor. Born 1882; died in 1929.

Helene Costello

Sister

Actor.

Delores Ethel Mae Barrymore

Daughter

John Barrymore Jr

Son

Companions

John Barrymore

Husband

Actor. Married 1928-35.

John Vruwink

Husband

Physician.

Bibliography

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