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Dorothy Malone
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| Dorothy Malone | |
 In a scene from Written on the Wind |
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| Born | January 30, 1925, age 82 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Academy Awards | |
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| Best Supporting Actress 1956 Written on the Wind |
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Dorothy Malone (born January 30, 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
Malone was born Dorothy Eloise Maloney in Chicago, Illinois. Much of her early career was spent in supporting roles in Grade-B Westerns, although on occasion she had the opportunity to play small but memorable roles, such as that of the young, brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart, in 1946.
In 1956, Malone co-starred with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's melodrama, Written on the Wind. Her portrayal of the dipso-nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas oil baron won her the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. As a result, she was offered meatier roles in better films, including Man of a Thousand Faces (with James Cagney), The Tarnished Angels (again with Hudson and Stack, again directed by Sirk), and The Last Voyage (with Stack), Warlock, and The Last Sunset.
Malone became a household name when she accepted the lead role of Constance MacKenzie Carson on the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, on which she starred from 1964 through 1968. Her last notable screen appearance was as a mother convicted of murdering her family in Basic Instinct (1992), with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.
Malone was married and divorced three times and has two daughters, Mimi and Diane, from her first marriage to actor Jacques Bergerac.
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| Preceded by Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1956 for Written on the Wind |
Succeeded by Miyoshi Umeki for Sayonara |