Dorothy Walters

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Dorothy Walters (1877 April 17, 1934) was an actress of the Broadway stage and Hollywood silent
motion pictures. She was born in Houston, Texas and began her stage career as a whistler. She tenured
for fifteen years in vaudeville before getting her first dramatic role in Paris By Night. This was the play
which Stanford White was watching on the roof of Madison Square Garden when he was shot multiple
times and murdered by Harry K. Thaw, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania coal and railroad scion. The date was
June 25, 1906. (This event is featured in Ragtime (novel) and Ragtime (film)).

Miss Walters was most noted for her character roles in theater. A memorable one came in Dinner at
Eight (play), playing the part of the cook. Also she played in The Warrior's Husband and Mr. Gilhooly
(1930), among others. Dorothy created the role of the mother in Irene (musical), which she performed
for eighty-five weeks.[1] As an actress she supported such famous luminaries as Ethel Barrymore, Helen
Hayes, and Minnie Maddern Fiske.

Contents
1 Silent Screen Performer
2 Demise
3 Partial filmography
4 References

Silent Screen Performer

As a motion picture performer Walters career lasted seven years from 1918 until 1925. Her first film is
The Woman Who Gave (1918). Her other screen credits include Children Not Wanted and The Veiled
Marriage, both 1920, and The Confidence Man (1924) and A Kiss For Cinderella (1925).

Demise
Dorothy Walters died in 1934 at her residence, 236 West Seventieth Street, New York, New York. She
succumbed from bronchial pneumonia. Her funeral was conducted by Crowley's Funeral Parlor, 597
Lexington Avenue, New York. The actress was 56.

Partial filmography
The Woman Who Gave (1918)
Away Goes Prudence (1920)
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
The Confidence Man (1924)
 The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
A Kiss for Cinderella (1926)

References
1. Internet Broadway Database (http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=63951) listing for Dorothy Walters

New York Times, Dorothy Walters, Actress, Dies at 56, April 19, 1934, Page 19.

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Categories: American film actresses People from Houston People from New York City
Vaudeville performers 1934 deaths 1877 births 20th-century American actresses

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