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Dorothy Seastrom | |
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Born | Dorothy Susan Seastrunk Corby March 17, 1903 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
Died | January 31, 1930 26) Dallas, Texas, U.S. | (aged
Resting place | Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1923–1926 |
Spouse | Francis Corby |
Dorothy Seastrom (born Dorothy Susan Seastrunk Corby; March 17, 1903 – January 31, 1930)[ citation needed ] was an American silent film actress.
Born in Texas, Seastrom got into acting after winning a beauty competition. Her family later relocated to Chicago. Her film career began in 1923 with the role of Eleanor Harmon in The Call of the Canyon , directed by Victor Fleming. Later she acted under the direction of Cecil B. Demille. She signed a five-year contract with First National Pictures in September 1925. Seastrom was called the "Candy Kid" at First National due to her taffy colored hair. [ clarification needed ]
She appeared in The Perfect Flapper with Colleen Moore and Classified with Corinne Griffith.[ citation needed ] Seastrom barely avoided a potentially disfiguring accident during the filming of We Moderns (1925). A shower of sparks from a short-circuited light fell upon her hair and shoulders at the United Studios. Seastrom escaped injury when assistant director James Dunne grabbed a tablecloth from a prop table and covered the actress's head. Electricians shut off the power to a light which hung from the fly system above the scene. [1] Seastrom made a full recovery from the burns she sustained. She returned to complete the film. [ citation needed ]
In 1926, Seastrom missed six months from acting while she had to rest in a sanitarium and "build up a physique weakened by work and worry". [2]
After being in a sanatorium, in 1926, Seastrom returned and appeared in her final film It Must Be Love. (The widower Corby wed a young script girl turned actress named Ellen Hansen in 1934; they divorced in 1944.) Seastrom died of tuberculosis in Dallas on January 31, 1930, aged 26. She was buried in Grove Hill Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas.[ citation needed ]
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1923 | The Call of the Canyon | Eleanor Harmon | |
1924 | Jonah Jones | Margaret Morgan | |
Crushed | Miss Brown | ||
1926 | Hooked | Dorothy | Lost film |
Fifth Avenue Models | Mannequin | Lost film | |
King Cotton | Lost film | ||
Pretty Ladies | Diamond Tights | ||
We Moderns | Dolly Wimple | Lost film | |
1926 | It Must Be Love | Min | Lost film |
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