page_title: Dorothy West (actress)
hierarchical_section_title: Dorothy West (actress)
caption_attribution_description: English: Douglas Fairbanks and Dorothy West in The Habit of Happiness (1916)
context_page_description: Dorothy West was an American actress in silent films and in radio.
  She grew up in Huntsville, Alabama.
  West was a star in Biograph silent films in New York. She came to Hollywood with a group of D.W. Griffith stars that included Mary Pickford, Marion Leonard, Florence Barker, and Mack Sennett in 1909. West, Pickford, Pickford's brother Jack, and Effie Johnson boarded together.
  She joined a stock theatre company in Mount Vernon, Illinois; then joined the Pitt Stock Players in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and in also performed in theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  West returned to film several years later. West received positive notice for her work in Griffith's His Mother's Scarf Swords and Hearts and The Eternal Grind.
  West left films again to tour in theatre productions in Europe after World War I with the American Army of Occupation, including in Germany.
  She also worked on Broadway and with a theatre company called The Triangle Players. She performed in the short play Sintram of Skaggerack by Sada Cowan in 1923.
  She made her radio debut in 1928.
context_section_description: Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American actress in silent films and in radio.
  She grew up in Huntsville, Alabama.
  West was a star in Biograph silent films in New York. She came to Hollywood with a group of D.W. Griffith stars that included Mary Pickford, Marion Leonard, Florence Barker, and Mack Sennett in 1909. West, Pickford, Pickford's brother Jack, and Effie Johnson boarded together.
  She joined a stock theatre company in Mount Vernon, Illinois; then joined the Pitt Stock Players in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and in also performed in theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  West returned to film several years later. West received positive notice for her work in Griffith's His Mother's Scarf (1911) Swords and Hearts (1911) and The Eternal Grind (1916).
  West left films again to tour in theatre productions in Europe after World War I with the American Army of Occupation, including in Germany.
  She also worked on Broadway and with a theatre company called The Triangle Players. She performed in the short play Sintram of Skaggerack by Sada Cowan in 1923.
  She made her radio debut in 1928.
caption: Dorothy West and Douglas Fairbanks in The Habit of Happiness (1916).
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