Dolores Sutton
{{short description|American actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Dolores Sutton
| birth_name = Dolores Lila Silverstein
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|2|4}}
| birth_place = New York City, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|5|11|1927|2|4}}
| death_place = Englewood, New Jersey, US
| yearsactive = 1950–1991
| spouse = Michael Reis (1956–1958; divorced)
| alma_mater = New York University
}}
Dolores Sutton (born Dolores Lila Silverstein, February 4, 1927 – May 11, 2009) was an American actress, writer and playwright. Her career spanned seven decades and encompassed television, stage and movie roles.
Early years
Born in New York City to Benjamin and Mary Silverstein, Sutton graduated from New York University in 1948 with a B.A. in philosophy.
Career
In 1960, playwright Sophie Treadwell selected Sutton for the female lead in a revival of her play, Machinal after having seen the actress perform on television.{{cite news |last1=Calta |first1=Louis |title='Machina' opens at Gate March 9 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/115062227 |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1960 |page=42|id={{ProQuest|115062227}} }}
While working on her master's degree, Sutton wrote a radio script (Siblings), sold it to NBC, and landed the voice role. This started her career as an actress and writer. {{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}
As an actress, Sutton worked in experimental theater and was a star with the National Repertory Company.{{cite news |title=Wolfe Play Planned For New York Stage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73988047/asheville-citizen-times/ |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=Asheville Citizen-Times |date=December 5, 1971 |location=North Carolina, Asheville |page=26|via = Newspapers.com}} Her Broadway credits included Rhinoceros (1961), General Seeger (1962), and My Fair Lady (1993).{{cite web |title=Dolores Sutton |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dolores-sutton-72630 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321024425/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dolores-sutton-72630 |archive-date=March 21, 2021}}
Sutton's work as a playwright included adapting Thomas Wolfe's The Web and the Rock for the stage. Critic John Simon's review of a production of the play in New York magazine included the comment, "Most of the novel's sweep, its period panorama, was gone; what was left was the churning, puerile poeticism."{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=John |title=Obsolete Parlances |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YImzM1Sj5sMC&q=%22Dolores+Sutton%22&pg=PA65 |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=New York |date=April 3, 1972 |page=65}} Sutton also had the lead in the play, leading another reviewer to write, "She is far better as an actress than as a writer."{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Emory |title=Wolfe As Soap Opera |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73987435/dolores-sutton/ |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=The Record |date=March 20, 1972 |location=New Jersey, Hackensack |page=16|via = Newspapers.com}}
Death
Sutton died of cancer on May 11, 2009, at the Actor's Home in Englewood, New Jersey,{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} aged 82.
Acting credits
=Stage=
Sutton played lead roles in three Broadway plays.
- 1960: Rhinoceros as Daisy
- 1961: General Seeger as The Woman
- 1994: My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins
Her Off-Broadway credits include leading roles in the following plays:
- 1956: The Man with the Golden Arm as Molly
- 1958: Career as Barbara Neilson
- 1960: Machinal as Helen Jones when she won the Vernon Rice Citation
- 1963: Brecht on Brecht
- 1969: To Be Young Gifted and Black in various roles
- 1972: The Web and the Rock as Esther (also the playwright)
- 1973: The Seagull as Irina Arkadina
- 1990: What's Wrong with This Picture as Bella
=Film=
- 1958: The Mugger
- 1963: Nine Miles to Noon as Julia Dimou
- 1966: The Trouble with Angels as Sister Rose Marie
- 1968: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows as Sister Rose Marie
- 1986: Dream Lover (voice)
- 1988: Crossing Delancey as Aunt Miriam
- 1989: Crimes and Misdemeanors as Judah's Secretary
- 1990: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie as Amanda (segment "Cat From Hell")
=Television=
- 1963: Gunsmoke as Jenny Gant in “The Bad One” (S8:E20)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0840300|Dolores Sutton}}
- {{IBDB name|72630}}
- {{iobdb name|5769}}
- [http://archives.nypl.org/the/21847 Dolores Sutton papers, 1945-1996 and undated], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121006181817/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Dolores&last=Sutton&middle= LLA archive]
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American soap opera actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Deaths from cancer in New Jersey
Category:New York University alumni
Category:Actresses from New York City
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American women
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