biography
Born Dorothy Maloney on January 30, 1925, in Chicago, beautiful Dorothy Malone's career in films began in the early 1940s. As a child she worked as a model, and as a teenage college student Malone was discovered for films. Signing with RKO, the young actress was given small roles in that studio's 'B' programmers, including Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) and The Falcon Out West (1944; with Tom Conway and Barbara Hale). Upon leaving RKO and signing with Warner Bros. in 1945, Malone's fortunes improved, yet she didn't land meatier roles until the end of the decade. By then, she was acting in such films as Flaxy Martin (1949; with Virginia Mayo) and a number of westerns. Malone left Warner Bros. for Columbia in the late 1940s but quickly abandoned that studio in the early 1950s to freelance in low-budget pictures such as The Bushwhackers (1952; with John Ireland) and Private Hell 36 (1954; with Ida Lupino and Steve Cochran). Malone also starred in several of director Roger Corman's early American International efforts, including Five Guns West (1955). Moving into more expensive productions in the mid 1950s, Malone scored her greatest success when she won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in Written on the Wind (1956; with Rock Hudson and Grant Williams). A string of other films followed until 1959, when Malone married handsome Jacques Bergerac; the French lawyer-turned-actor is best known for his starring role in the amazing low-budget horror flick The Hypnotic Eye (1960).LEFT: Cheesecake shot of Dorothy Malone. CENTER: Malone with first husband Jacques Bergerac in the early 1960s. RIGHT: With producer Joy Houck and actor Lance Fuller in 1955
the films of dorothy malone
One Sunday Afternoon (1948)
Flaxy Martin (1949)
With Zachary Scott in the Warner Bros. crime drama Flaxy Martin
Law and Order (1953)
Private Hell 36 (1954)
From the independent crime thriller Private Hell 36 with Howard Duff
Sincerely Yours (1955)
Pillars of the Sky (1956)
From the Universal western Pillars of the Sky. LEFT: With Keith Andes and Jeff Chandler. RIGHT: Malone as Calla Gaxton
Written on the Wind (1956)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
Quantez (1957)
From the Universal-International western Quantez with John Gavin
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
From the Diana Barrymore biopic Too Much, Too Soon, released by Warner Bros. LEFT: LEFT: With Martin Milner. CENTER: With Ray Danton. RIGHT: With Errol Flynn as John Barrymore
The Last Voyage (1960)
Beach Party (1963)
dorothy malone today
Malone's marriage to Jacques Bergerac ended acrimoniously in 1964. The couple shared the responsibility in raising their two daughters, but their disagreements about custody often made headlines in the 1960s and 1970s. Malone remarried twice, but both marriages were short-lived.Unhappy with her screen time and scripts, Dorothy Malone left Peyton Place after the 1968 season. Still she did not lack for work; throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Malone made frequent appearances in made-for-television films and starred in another series, High Hopes, in 1978. Although she'd often been cast in dramas and westerns, toward the end of her career Malone acted in several 'B' horror and science fiction films, including The Day Time Ended (1980; with Jim Davis), The Being (1983; with Martin Landau), and Rest in Pieces (1987; with Scott Thompson Baker). Her final film appearance came in the then-controversial Basic Instinct (1992; with Sharon Stone). Malone is now retired.
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TELEVISION
Peyton Place: Part One [DVD] DVD
The series's first 31 episodes are featured in a five-disc set. 13 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English. **31 episodes on 5 discs. 13 hrs.**
Peyton Place: Part Two [DVD] DVD
Episodes 32-64 are featured in a five-disc set. 13 1/2 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English. **31 episodes on 5 discs. 13 1/2 hrs.**
FILM
The Big Sleep [DVD] (1946) DVD
Raymond Chandler's witty and convoluted whodunit comes to life under director Howard Hawks. Humphrey Bogart is private eye Philip Marlowe, investigating a wealthy family's dark secrets, and Lauren Bacall is the sharp-tongued rich girl ensnared with him in a murderous web of deceit, blackmail and murder. With Martha Vickers, John Ridgely, Elisha Cook, Jr., Dorothy Malone. Side A: Standard 114 min. 1946 theatrical version; Side B: Standard 116 min. 1945 pre-release version; Soundtrack: English Dolby mono; Subtitles: English, French; featurette; production notes; theatrical trailer; scene access.
Bogie & Bacall: The Signature Collection [DVD] DVD
Four-disc set includes "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage," and "Key Largo."
Night And Day [DVD](1946) DVD
The life and career of composer Cole Porter are saluted in this Movies Unlimited favorite. Cary Grant plays Porter, following him from his days at Yale, his experiences in World War I, his stormy marriage, and his amazing musical accomplishments. Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Jane Wyman co-star. Score includes "You're the Top," "Don't Fence Me In," more. 128 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; theatrical trailers; bonus shorts "Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra" (1946), "Musical Movieland" (1944), "The Big Snooze" (1946).
Cary Grant: The Signature Collection [DVD] DVD
The life and career of composer Cole Porter are saluted in the Movies Unlimited favorite "Night and Day" (1946). Cary Grant plays Porter, from his days at Yale and his experiences in World War I to his stormy marriage and his amazing musical accomplishments. Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Jane Wyman co-star. Score includes "You're the Top," "Don't Fence Me In," and more. Five-disc set also includes "My Favorite Wife," "Destination Tokyo," "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House." 9 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; bonus shorts "Home Movies" (1940), "Musical Movieland" (1944), "The Big Snooze" (1946), "Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra" (1946), "Little 'Tinker" (1948), "The House Of Tomorrow" (1949); radio broadcasts; theatrical trailers.
One Sunday Afternoon [DVD](1948) DVD
Sunny, musicalized remake of "The Strawberry Blonde" stars Dennis Morgan as the early 1900s NYC dentist whose happy marriage to Dorothy Malone is threatened when old flame Janis Paige rolls back into town. Don DeFore co-stars under "Strawberry Blonde" helmer Raoul Walsh's direction; score includes "Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys," "Some Day." 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
Colorado Territory [DVD](1949) DVD
This western remake of the Humphrey Bogart gangster flick "High Sierra" stars Joel McCrea as a notorious outlaw who breaks out of jail and winds up planning one last railroad robbery with his old gang, despite his desire to settle down. But McCrea and dance hall girl Virginia Mayo must make a desperate escape to the mountains when the heist goes bad. Dorothy Malone also stars; directed by Raoul Walsh, who also helmed the original. 94 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
The Nevadan [DVD](1950) DVD
Randolph Scott stars as a marshal who teams with a robber to stop a nasty rancher from recovering $250,000 in stolen loot. As the unlikely pair tries to complete their shared mission and fight the bad guy and his gang, they must also square off against each other-resulting in plenty of thrills and action. Western winner co-stars Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Frank Faylen, George Macready. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
Bad Girls Of Film Noir, Vol. 1 [DVD] DVD
Sheila (Evelyn Keyes) was clever enough to smuggle diamonds into Manhattan from Cuba, but she's also "The Killer That Stalked New York" (1950) because she's carrying smallpox! Noir thriller co-stars Barry Kelley, Dorothy Malone. Two con artists plot to scam a couple by producing a double of their missing son, in "Two of a Kind" (1951). With Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott. Returning home to Pennsylvania from service in the Korean War, a doctor (Charlton Heston) falls under the spell of a lovely gal (Lizabeth Scott), but they're "Bad for Each Other" (1953). Co-stars Dianne Foster, Mildred Dunnock. Unless a "displaced person" from World War II can locate the soldier whose testimony can break down "The Glass Wall" (1953) keeping him from entering America, the man faces branding as a criminal fugitive. Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame star. 5 1/4 hrs. total on two discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English (SDH); theatrical trailers; featurette; bonus "All Star Theatre" episode.
Tim Holt Western Classics Collection, Vol. 3 [DVD] DVD
Cowhand Holt tries to stop a lynch-happy ranch foreman from inciting a range war in "Storm Over Wyoming" (1950). Richard Martin, Noreen Nash co-star. When a blackmail over a gold mine claim leads to double-crosses, Tim rides to keep peace in "Rider from Tucson" (1950). Martin, Veda Ann Borg co-star. Tim must stop the owlhoots after an earthquake relief fund in "Border Treasure" (1950). With Inez Cooper. Tim goes after smugglers with the "Rio Grande Patrol" (1950). With Cleo Moore. Counterfeiters best beware when Texas Ranger Tim enforces the "Law of the Badlands" (1951). With Joan Dixon. Holt must stop a phony inspector's cattle swindle in "Saddle Legion" (1951). With Dorothy Malone. Holt must discover why a dead man's son is covering for a killer in "Gunplay" (1951). Dixon co-stars. To help an ex-con escape blackmailing buddies, Holt serves up "Hot Lead" (1951). With John Dehner. Tim next plays the "Road Agent" (1952) facing down a landowner overcharging for right-of-way. Lastly, Holt takes on a corrupt land agent in "Target" (1952). 10 hrs. total on five discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
The Bushwhackers [DVD](1952) DVD
Putting aside a vow never to use a gun again, a Civil War veteran cleans up a corrupt western town. John Ireland, Dorothy Malone and Lon Chaney, Jr. star. 67 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
Law And Order [DVD] (1953)
Western drama stars Ronald Reagan as a marshal looking to retire with lady love Dorothy Malone, but forced to strap on his six-irons one last time to free a frontier town from the grip of outlaw leader Preston Foster, the man responsible for Reagan's brother's death. 80 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: Spanish, French; theatrical trailer.
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics II [DVD] DVD
Director Fritz Lang's "Human Desire" (1954), based on the Zola novel and Renoir film "La Bete Humaine," stars Glenn Ford as a railroad engineer who has an affair with Gloria Grahame, the wife of co-worker Broderick Crawford, after finding out the couple are responsible for a murder. Detective Fred MacMurray gets mixed up with a suspected bank robber's girlfriend (Kim Novak), leading to deception and double-crosses, in "Pushover" (1954). With Phil Carey, Dorothy Malone, E.G. Marshall. "The Brothers Rico" (1957) finds a former Mafia accountant pulled back into the dangerous world of organized crime when he learns the Mob wants to eliminate his siblings. Richard Conte, James Darren, Paul Picerni star. Falsely accused of robbery and murder, fugitive Aldo Ray seeks help from mysterious beauty Anne Bancroft in "Nightfall" (1957), co-starring Brian Keith. And Los Angeles becomes a "City of Fear" (1959) as authorities try to locate an escaped convict in possession of a deadly radioactive explosive. With Vince Edwards, Patricia Blair, John Archer. Soundtrack: English.
The Fast And The Furious [DVD] (1954) DVD
On the run from a bogus murder rap, John Ireland steals a Jaguar with owner Dorothy Malone still inside and joins a Pebble Beach road race to slip across the border. Roger Corman wrote and produced this feature, one of the first releases from AIP. 73 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono.
Poverty Row Studio Collections: American International, Vol. 1 [DVD] DVD
Two-disc set includes "The Fast and the Furious" (1954), "Hot Rod Girl," "A Bucket of Blood," and "Attack of the Giant Leeches."
Young At Heart [DVD] (1954) DVD
Great musical/drama, based on the 1938 film "Four Daughters," with Frank Sinatra as a musician who comes to a small town to work with composer Gig Young and winds up stealing fiancee Doris Day from him. Top-notch score includes "Someone to Watch Over Me" and the title tune. With Dorothy Malone, Ethel Barrymore. 117 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround; scene access.
Five Guns West [DVD] (1955) DVD
The first film directed by Roger Corman, this action-packed sagebrusher stars John Lund as a Confederate officer who joins forces with a group of outlaws in order to stop a stagecoach carrying a Confederate traitor and $30,000 in gold. In order to complete their mission, the outlaws and their leader face Indians and Union officers. With Dorothy Malone, Jonathan Haze. 78 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; theatrical trailer.
Fort Worth (1951)/Colt .45 (1950)/Tall Man Riding [DVD](1955) DVD
First, in "Fort Worth," Randolph Scott is an ex-gunslinger and newspaperman who is forced to return to his old vocation when a gang of outlaws rides into his Texas town. Features David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena Carter. Next, "Colt .45" has Scott chasing a desperado who is using weapons to terrorize locals. With Ruth Roman, Zachary Scott, Lloyd Bridges. AKA: "Thundercloud." Finally, Scott is a "Tall Man Riding" for vengeance as he tries to settle the score with a nemesis from his past. Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle, Robert Barratt co-star. Soundtrack: English.
Battle Cry (1955)/Battleground [DVD](1949) DVD
Based on the Leon Uris novel, the gritty war saga "Battle Cry" follows a group of marines from basic training to combat fighting during World War II. Van Heflin is the disciplinarian major who whips his men into shape, while Aldo Ray and Tab Hunter are among the jarheads prepping for battle and dealing with domestic predicaments. Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, and John Lupton also star; directed by Raoul Walsh ("White Heat"). Then "Battleground" is an Oscar-winning account of the Battle of the Bulge, and the American foot soldiers who were trapped by the Germans in Bastogne during the fighting. Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy star in this stirring wartime drama, directed by William Wellman. 266min. total on two discs. Standard/Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; theatrical trailer; bonus short "Little Rural Riding Hood" (1949).
Written On The Wind [DVD] (1956) DVD
Sweeping Douglas Sirk melodrama traces the lives, loves, and tragedies of a Texas oil family. Rock Hudson stars as the "adopted son" whose attraction to Lauren Bacall, the wife of spoiled scion Robert Stack, leads to a violent confrontation. Dorothy Malone also stars in an Oscar-winning turn as a drunken, promiscuous daughter, along with Robert Keith, Grant Williams. 97 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby mono; Subtitles: English; filmography; photo gallery; theatrical trailers.
Man Of A Thousand Faces [DVD](1957) DVD
The career and stormy private life of silent film legend Lon Chaney is effectively (if not always accurately) brought to the screen in this biodrama. James Cagney stars as the son of deaf-mute parents who thrilled audiences with his make-up and portrayals of the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and other grotesqueries. With Jane Greer, Dorothy Malone, Jim Backus, Roger Smith. 122 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French.
The Tarnished Angels -- Exclusive! [DVD](1957) DVD
William Faulkner's novel "Pylon" was the basis for this glossy and atmospheric Douglas Sirk drama starring Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone as barnstorming airplane daredevils in the 1930s South and Rock Hudson as a cynical reporter who becomes their ally. With Jack Carson, Robert Middleton. 91 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; photo gallery; poster gallery; more.
Douglas Sirk Filmmaker Collection -- Exclusive! [DVD] DVD
Four-disc set includes "Thunder on the Hill," "Taza, Son of Cochise," "Captain Lightfoot," and "The Tarnished Angels."
Too Much, Too Soon [DVD](1958) DVD
One of Errol Flynn's last big-screen roles was as real-life friend and actor John Barrymore in this riveting biopic that chronicles Barrymore's rocky relationship with daughter Diana (Dorothy Malone). Unable to win her drunken father's love or find fulfillment as an actress, Diana begins a downward spiral of alcohol, failed marriages, mental institutions, and suicide attempts. With Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ray Danton, Neva Patterson; based on Diana Barrymore's autobiography. 121 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English.
Rock Hudson: Screen Legend Collection [DVD] DVD
Man's man Rock Hudson heats up the screen in a three-disc, five-film set! When a rich, old man (Charles Coburn) leaves a fortune to the family of a woman he once loved, a soda jerk (Hudson) finds he's no longer the perfect lad for the clan's daughter, in "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" (1952). Piper Laurie, Gigi Perreau co-star. Rock flexes his pecs in the Arabian-flavored costume epic "The Golden Blade" (1953), journeying to Baghdad on a mission of vengeance. Laurie, Gene Evans co-star. Hudson wears the white hat, and Kirk Douglas the black, in the muscular Western "The Last Sunset" (1961), with Dorothy Malone and Joseph Cotten. Giving an intense performance, Hudson plays an egotistical doctor working in the jungle, in "The Spiral Road" (1962). Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands also star. And playboy Rock is asked to woo psychiatrist Leslie Caron by her father (Charles Boyer) in the romantic comedy "A Very Special Favor" (1965). Walter Slezak, Larry Storch co-star. 8 3/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English (SDH), French; theatrical trailers.
Beach Party (1963)/Bikini Beach [DVD](1964) DVD
The first entry in A.I.P.'s surfside slapstick series, "Beach Party" stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello as fun-loving teens who become the subject of anthropologist Bob Cummings' research into adolescent mating rituals. With Morey Amsterdam, Dorothy Malone, Dick Dale and The Del-Tones, and Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper. Next, Frankie plays himself and mop-topped British pop idol the Potato Bug (get it?)--and both are vying for Annette's attention--in "Bikini Beach," co-starring Don Rickles, Keenan Wynn, Little Stevie Wonder, and Boris Karloff. 198 min. total. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: French, Spanish; theatrical trailers.
The Frankie & Annette Collection [DVD] DVD
"Surf's up" in this four-disc boxed set saluting AIP's teen comedy series and seaside sweethearts Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Anthropologist Bob Cummings uses the pair as part of a study of modern mating habits in the original "Beach Party" (1963), with Morey Amsterdam, Dorothy Malone, and Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper. Annette has her hands full when the Potato Bug, a British pop star who's Frankie's double, arrives at "Bikini Beach" (1964). Don Rickles and Little Stevie Wonder guest star. Gym owner Rickles wants to take over the kids' surf spot, and heiress Luciana Paluzzi wants to woo Frankie from Annette, in "Muscle Beach Party" (1964). Avalon trades his board for slats and joins Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley and James Brown for a "Ski Party" (1965). "Beach Blanket Bingo" (1965) boasts a missing singer, a mermaid, and skydiving surfdogs. Avalon wants to keep pal Hickman away from Funicello while he's on military duty in "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" (1965), with Buster Keaton. Frankie's a moonshine-running hot rodder competing with racer Fabian for Annette's hand in "Fireball 500" (1966). And Fabian and Funicello burn rubber together in "Thunder Alley" (1967). 12 1/2 hrs. total. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English mono.
Winter Kills [DVD] (1980) DVD
The brother of an assassinated U.S. president launches his own investigation into the killing and uncovers a bizarre string of conspiracies that leads to an unexpected end. Offbeat blend of political thriller and black comedy, based on Richard Condon's novel, stars Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Belinda Bauer. 97 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; audio commentary; featurettes; interviews; photo gallery; poster gallery; theatrical trailer; more. Two-disc set.
The Day Time Ended [DVD](1980) DVD
Radiation from a supernova sends a family living in a solar-powered house in the desert into a bizarre time-space warp that finds them confronting dinosaurs, tiny aliens, a green pyramid and other phenomena. Jim Davis, Dorothy Malone, Chris Mitchum star. AKA: "Vortex." 90 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English stereo.
The Being [DVD](1983) DVD
In a small Idaho community, a young boy mutates after coming into contact with toxic waste and starts killing the townspeople. The police chief and a government scientist investigate the killings, but when they learn of the monster behind the madness, can they stop him before they become his next victims? Fun and frightening horror tale stars Martin Landau, Jose Ferrer, Ruth Buzzi, Rexx Coltrane, and "the Unknown Comic" Murray Langston. AKA: "Easter Sunday," "Freak," "The Pottsville Horror." 82 min. Soundtrack: English; theatrical trailer; audio commentary; interview.
Basic Instinct (Ultimate Edition) [DVD](1992) DVD
Controversial, sexually charged suspenser stars Michael Douglas as a burned-out San Francisco police detective investigating a brutal ice-pick murder who carries on a torrid affair with one of the case's suspects, seductive bisexual writer Sharon Stone. Jeanne Tripplehorn and George Dzundza co-star; Paul Verhoeven directs. Unrated director's cut features ultra-steamy scenes excised from the film's original release; 128 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary by Verhoeven; documentary; photo gallery; storyboards; interview; theatrical trailer.
Basic Instinct (Unrated Director's Cut) [Blu-ray](1992)
Controversial, sexually charged suspenser stars Michael Douglas as a burned-out San Francisco police detective investigating a brutal ice-pick murder who carries on a torrid affair with one of the case's suspects, seductive bisexual writer Sharon Stone. Jeanne Tripplehorn and George Dzundza co-star; Paul Verhoeven directs. Unrated director's cut features ultra-steamy scenes excised from the film's original release; 128 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English DTS 5.1 EX, DTS HD; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary by Verhoeven, others; featurette; "making of" documentary; screen tests; storyboards; theatrical trailer.


