page_title: Dorothy Malone
section_title: Written on the Wind and stardom
hierarchical_section_title: Dorothy Malone / Career / Written on the Wind and stardom
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot of Dorothy Malone from the trailer for the film Written on the Wind
context_page_description: Dorothy Malone was an American actress.
  Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, but an exception is The Big Sleep. After a decade, she changed her image, particularly after her role in Written on the Wind, for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
  Her career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place. Less active in her later years, Malone's last screen appearance was in Basic Instinct in 1992.
  Malone died on January 19, 2018. She had been one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
context_section_description: Malone transformed herself into a platinum blonde and shed her "good girl" image when she co-starred with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's drama Written on the Wind (1956). Her portrayal of the dipso-nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas oil baron won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
  As a result, she was offered more substantial roles in such films as Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), a biopic of Lon Chaney with James Cagney and Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957) with Robert Taylor. Quantez (1957) was another "girl in a Western" part, supporting Fred MacMurray, but The Tarnished Angels (1957) reunited her successfully with Hudson, Sirk, Stack, and producer Albert Zugsmith. Malone was given the important role of Diana Barrymore in the biopic Too Much, Too Soon (1958), but the film was not a success. Malone appeared in Warlock (1959), but went back to guest starring on such television programs as Cimarron City ("A Respectable Girl" (1958) and Alcoa Theatre ("The Last Flight Out" (1960). Malone made a third film with Stack, The Last Voyage (1960), and a third with Hudson, The Last Sunset (1961).
  However, she was working more and more in television: Route 66 ("Fly Away Home" (1961), Checkmate ("The Heat of Passion" (1961), Death Valley Days ("The Watch" 1961), The Dick Powell Theatre ("Open Season" 1961), Dr Kildare ("The Administrator" 1962), General Electric Theatre ("Little White Lie" 1961, "Somebody Please Help Me" 1962), The Untouchables with Stack ("The Floyd Gibbons Story" 1962), and The Greatest Show on Earth ("Where the Wire Ends" 1963). Malone was in the first Beach Party (1963) movie, doing most of her scenes with Robert Cummings. She made an uncredited cameo appearance in Fate Is the Hunter (1964).
caption: Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind, 1956
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