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  Dolores Costello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dolores Costello (born September 17, 1903; died March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies.
Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of actors Maurice and Mae Costello.
Costello spoke with a lisp (a character trait that her granddaughter Drew Barrymore wound up inheriting), and found it difficult to make the transition to talking pictures, but after two years of voice coaching she was comfortable speaking before a microphone.
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 Dolores Costello -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Costello was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of actors Maurice and Mae Costello.
Costello attempted to resume her career and achieved some successes, most notably in (An excessively polite and well-dressed boy) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and (Click link for more info and facts about The Magnificent Ambersons) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).
Dolores Costello has a star on the (Click link for more info and facts about Hollywood Walk of Fame) Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1645 Vine Street.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Do/Dolores_Costello.htm   (327 words)

  
 Flicker: Forgotten Stars--Dolores Costello
She was known as "The Goddess of the Silent Screen." Dolores Costello was the daughter of Maurice Costello, one of the most popular actors of the silent era.
As early as 1909, Dolores, along with her sister Helene, began appearing in films alongside her famous father, and would work steadily throughout the 1910s and 1920s on stage and screen.
Dolores continued her acting career and went on to appear in a number of films, most notably as "Isabel" in Orson Welles' THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942).
flickerfilms.blogspot.com /2004/06/forgotten-stars-dolores-costello.html   (267 words)

  
 © Dolores Costello, Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
Known as "The Goddess of the Silent Screen", Dolores Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the 17th of September, 1903, to Mae and Maurice Costello, a famous theatrical and film pioneer family.
Maurice Costello had been one of the first silent screen stars in the fledgling film industry, in the days when movies were still called "flickers" and shown in nickelodeons.
Dolores Costello appeared on the stage in the "George White's Scandals", and then both Dolores and Helene entered feature films in 1925, with contracts from Warner Brothers studio.
www.goldensilents.com /stars/dolorescostello.html   (332 words)

  
 COSTELLO FAMILY
When Maurice Costello was known as "the handsomest man on the screen" in what the historians of the films are pleased to call "the old Biograph days", his small daughter Dolores, then two or thereabouts, played occasional bits in pictures.
Photo on left is Dolores Costello (1928) appearing in Noah's Ark as "Miriam." She married the pagan god, "Jaghut." Later she is compelled to join in the grest festival which is to end in her death, as a sacrifice to him.
It was Dolores Costello, by the way, who will go down in the glorious annals of film history as the first heroine of the talking pictures, in those pre-historic days before Noah's Ark, when the talking consisted of five minutes of concentrated loud-speaking before the final close-up.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Actresses (Do-Doq)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She was born in 1905 and died in 1983.
Dolores Gray is an American singer and actress.
She was born in 1938 at Chicago, Illinois.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CZDD.HTM   (274 words)

  
 Mannequin (1926)
This was Dolores Costello's first film after her starring debut in The Sea Beast with future husband John Barrymore.
One thing "Mannequin" does do--it brings Dolores Costello to the screen in a role in which the girl has a chance to do something, and she may be the biggest bet that has come along among the younger generation of feminine screen players.
Dolores Costello, as the girl grown to young womanhood, was very effective in what could have been made a simpering flapper.
www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/AJ/reviews/mannequin.htm   (1211 words)

  
 Dolores Costello Supersite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
COSTELLO FAMILY - adaptation of Moby Dick; she and Barrymore were married in 1928.
Photo on left is Dolores Costello (1928) appearing in Noah's Ark as andquot;Miriam.andquot; She married the pagan god, andquot;Jaghut.
© Dolores Costello, Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com - Known as andquot;The Goddess of the Silent Screenandquot;, Dolores Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the 17th of September, 1903, to Mae and Maurice Costello, a famous theatrical and film pioneer.
www.lagunaquilts.com /listings/dolores-costello.htm   (375 words)

  
 Abbott
Abbott and Costello were the first contractual stars with a major film studio to contractually receive 10% profit participation on their films.
Abbott and Costello were one of the early pioneers of episodic television.
Lou Costello was the godfather of Bud Abbott, Jr.*
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 Magnificent Ambersons
Robert L. Carrington suggests that Welles' age difference from George was not as great as Joseph Cotten's or Dolores Costello's from their characters, and speculates instead that the autobiographical and Oedipal threads of the script were too intense for Welles to be able to deal with acting George Minifer on film.
Her father, Maurice Costello, was a matinee idol of stage and screen in the first years of the century.
Dolores and her sister Helene began in films as children in their father's productions.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDMagnificentAmbersons.htm   (2153 words)

  
 Dolores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dolores Gray was born on June 7, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois.
Dolores is a professional seamstress with 15 years of experience altering formal wear and bridal wear.
Dolores and Bob Hope have been married over fifty years, and throughout those memorable years she has shared the joy of giving to the world.
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 Barrymore.com
In looking at photographs of John's mother Dolores Costello, I could see the resemblance in Drew her brother John III, and John Jr.
In her day, John's mother, Dolores Costello was as beautiful as Mary Pickford.
Dolores eventually gave in to John, Jr.'s desires.
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 Dolores Costello @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dolores Costello was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies.
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 John Barrymore
He married Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs (1890-1950), a bisexual New York real estate heiress who wrote under the name Michael Strange, on August 5, 1920 and divorced her in 1928.
His third wife was Dolores Costello (1903-1979), an actress and model best known for her role as Dearest in the movie Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); they married on November 24, 1928 and divorced in 1935.
His fourth wife was Elaine Barrie (née Elaine Jacobs, 1916-2003), an actress; they married on November 9, 1936 and divorced in 1940.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_barrymore.html   (330 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Noah's Ark : Review
Placed before a firing squad, Dolores is saved in the nick of time by her husband, a member of the squad.The Germans use this very moment to bomb and all are soon entombed in the basement of a demolished building.
The climactic Flood (the filming of which brought Miss Costello a severe case of pneumonia) pulls out all the stops and is magnificent in UCLA's lovingly restored print.
It was Costello's line-reading of "Merthy, merthy, have you no thisther of your own?" in Tenderloin (1928) that supposedly sealed her fate in talkies.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/68813/review.jhtml   (512 words)

  
 OLD SAN FRANCISCO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He pressures the last descendant of the proud Vasquez family (played by Josef Swickard) and his granddaughter Dolores (played by Dolores Costello) to part with their legacy.
Terrence has fallen in love with Dolores, but is kept at arms length even though her heart is open to him.
As a bonus, silent film buffs are treated to performances by Warner Oland, Sojin, Josef Swickard, Dolores Costello and Anna May Wong in particular — artists whose films remain out of reach for the average citizen primarily because their film have been locked up in archival vaults or have not been transferred to video.
www.norcalmovies.com /OldSanFrancisco/oldsf-review.htm   (1010 words)

  
 ToxicUniverse.com - Michael Curtiz - 1929 - Noah's Ark Movies Review
This put severe constraints on the directors of the day, and indeed, Curtiz's film suffers from sound's restrictions: Except for a couple of instances in which speech is actually used to drive the narrative forward, the talking sequences are gratuitous and bring the narrative to a grinding halt.
Actors weren't well-served by the equipment's restrictions, either, and Costello, O'Brien, Beery, and Williams were no exceptions: In order for their voices to register clearly on Warner's embryonic Vitaphone system, the actors had to speak their lines v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y and E-NUN-CI-ATE EV-ER-Y SYL-LA-BLE.
Costello, meanwhile, would prove to be only one of too many silent stars whose voice would betray her and kill her career.
www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10001969   (1025 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She's too mature, too wise, and to anyone it would be obvious George is a selfish nut who doesn't deserve her affections--to anyone especially Anne Baxter; and yet she brings a exuberant life to a movie that suffers from the dry heaves mostly.
Dolores Costello, once married to Barrymore, the heroine of Curtis' epic NOAH'S ARK and Selznick's wonderful LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY, shines at age 39 playing Isabel, George's mother, Gertrude to his Hamlet.
Costello should have kept acting for years and years, shame that the failure of TMA hastened her retirement from cinema.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JKGX?v=glance   (2223 words)

  
 Character profiles for Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons - Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Ray Collins, ...
Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins were part of Welles' Mercury Theater, and had much more experience on radio than in feature films (though they were all in Citizen Kane)..
Dolores Costello and Richard Bennett were both called out of retirement, and Anne Baxter had only played small parts in a few movies.
Later, when George is hospitalized after being hit by a car, Lucy goes to be with him, and will presumably reconcile with the now humble George.
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 Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - The Talmadges - Main Page
This could be the actress and Maurice Mouvet (not 100% sure if Maurice and Constance was the famous actress or not here, If not this couple could be brother and sister or married or just a stage name...
If they were the Actor / Actress, Maurice Costello entered films with Thomas A. Edison in 1905.
Constance appeared with Maurice Costello in many of her early films.
www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2tlmdg1.htm   (126 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Magnificent Ambersons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The story is set during the late 19th century and follows the rise and fall of the wealthy Amberson family of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Central to the drama is George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who is snobbishly to the manor born, and whose petty jealousies and truculent pride compel him to prevent a wealthy inventor (Joseph Cotten) from marrying his widowed mother (Dolores Costello).
The story is a simple one: Eugene Morgan (Cotton) and Isabel Amberson (Costello) young lovers, who through a somewhat frivolous circumstance end up marrying other people.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6304119054   (1321 words)

  
 Joan Crawford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though Crawford reportedly detested the name at first, saying it sounded like "crawfish," and called herself JoAnne for some time, she eventually became used to it.
She was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores Del Rio, Janet Gaynor, and Fay Wray.
Crawford studied diction and elocution to rid herself of her Southwestern accent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_Crawford   (2371 words)

  
 Old San Francisco review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The purple bathed premiere of this photoplay at the Warner Theater was a brilliant one, even for New York, but the critics didn't resort to any great use of adjectives in reporting their reactions.
Some of the reviewers described the film as good entertainment and quite thrilling, while others weren't impressed by the story, Wilella Waldorf, in the Post, calling it "violently melodramtic and preposterous in the extreme." The critics agreed on only one thing -- that Dolores Costello was very beautiful.
Contining, the Post's reviewer says that "the piece is laid in and about the Western city at the time of the famous earthquake, and only the presence of Miss Costello and other familiar players in the cast refutes the rumor that it is an old piece of celluloid salvaged from the ruins.
www.silentsaregolden.com /reviewsfolder/oldsanfranciscoreview.html   (255 words)

  
 DigiGuide : Dolores Costello
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Dolores Costello : Biography
Costello, she and her sister (actress Helene Costello) began appearing as children in Vitagraph films that starred their father.
She and her sister formed a successful dance duet on the New York stage in the George White Scandals of 1924, leading to the two of them being signed to film contracts by Warner Brothers.
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 Behind the scenes on the making of Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons - page 1- Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Ray ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The back of the photo has original RKO copyright stamp and snipe with information.
Many of the principal players take a break at the Union Ice Company, the icehouse where the sleighride scene was filmed.
Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Joseph Cotten and Welles
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