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name: "Dorothy Malone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dorothy-malone"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 January 1924"
died: "19 January 2018"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:17:36.460987+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dorothy Malone

Actor. Born 29 January 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 19 January 2018.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 January 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 19 January 2018
- **Active:** 1946–1992
- **Also known as:** Dorothy Eloise Maloney

## Biography

Dorothy Malone was an American actress. Born Dorothy Eloise Maloney in Chicago, she began her film career in 1943 with small roles, mainly in B-movies, before appearing as the Acme Bookstore Proprietress in *The Big Sleep* (1946).

She achieved wider recognition after her performance as Marylee Hadley in *Written on the Wind* (1956), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her career included further film roles such as in *The Tarnished Angels* (1957) and *Warlock* (1959), followed by the television series *Peyton Place* (1964–1968) as Constance MacKenzie. Her final screen appearance was as Hazel Dobkins in *Basic Instinct* (1992). She died in 2018.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Basic Instinct* (1992), Fi1m 72, as Hazel Dobkins — [page](https://film.one/film/basic-instinct.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *The Big Sleep* (1946), Actor

## Also known for

- *Written on the Wind* (1956), Marylee Hadley
- *Warlock* (1959), Lily Dollar
- *Artists and Models* (1955), Abigail Parker
- *The Streets of San Francisco* (1972)
- *The Tarnished Angels* (1957), LaVerne Shumann
- *The Last Sunset* (1961), Belle Breckenridge
- *The Oscars* (1953), Self
- *Colorado Territory* (1949), Julie Ann Winslow

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