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Marie Doro
From Outcyclopedia, the free and queer encyclopedia. Marie Doro was a stage actor and one of the early stars of the silent screen. She was also a member of Mercedes de Acosta's circle of friends and lovers. Marie Doro was born Marie K. Steward in Duncannon, Pennsylvania on 25 May, 1882. As with most of the screen's earliest stars, Marie Doro's career began on the stage, where under the management of Charles Frohman she won considerable acclaim for her performances, including the title role in a revival of Oliver Twist in 1912. Marie Doro's start in films came with a starring role as Carlotta in The Morals of Marcus in 1915. The following year she reprised her role as Dickens' little orphan boy in the 1916 film version of Oliver Twist, one of the earliest ever produced. Around this same time, she entered into a brief union with vaudeville and silent screen actor Elliot Dexter, which may have been a marriage of mutual convenience. A classically trained performer, Marie Doro was known and admired for her expertise on the subjects of Shakespeare and Elizabethan poetry. She was deeply spiritual and studied religion at New York's Union Theological Seminary. Increasingly reclusive, Doro would often go on self-styled "retreats" and would go to extremes to elude friends and acquantainces during these times, even changing hotels four times a week. Not long after befriending Mercedes de Acosta, Doro left films, with her last being 1924's Sally Bishop, in which she played the title role. The rest of her life was largely spent in seclusion. When Marie Doro died from heart failure on 9 October in 1956, film and the theater may have forgotten her, but she did not forget them. Her will allocated $90,000 to the Actor's Fund. Select Stage Credits (per Internet Broadway Database Entry)
Select Filmography (per Internet Movie Database Entry)
External links:
Silent
Film Still Archive Performer Listing
Portrait
Gallery - Michigan State University Department of Theater
Internet
Broadway Database: Marie Doro
Internet
Movie Database: Marie Doro
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