Dorothy Gulliver
{{short description|American actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Dorothy Gulliver
| image = Gulliver Freulich.jpg
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| birth_name = Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|9|6}}
| birth_place = Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|5|23|1908|9|6}}
| death_place = Valley Center, California, U.S.
| occupation = Actress
| years_active =
}}
Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver (September 6, 1908 – May 23, 1997) was an American silent film actress, and one of the few to make a successful transition when films began using sound.
Biography
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gulliver,{{cite news |title=(untitled brief) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80874205/dorothy-gulliver/ |access-date=July 6, 2021 |work=The Salt Lake Telegram |date=June 12, 1925 |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}} she was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1908 and was raised as a Mormon. From childhood, she wanted to be an actress. After she won the Miss Salt Lake City beauty contest in 1924, a scout for Paramount sought to have her go to Hollywood, but her mother opposed that plan.{{cite book |last1=Mayer |first1=Geoff |title=Encyclopedia of American Film Serials |date=9 February 2017 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-7762-3 |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CYSDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Dorothy+Gulliver%22&pg=PA143 |access-date=July 4, 2021 |language=en}} In June 1925, she won a beauty contest sponsored by Universal, with her awards including a six-month contract with Universal at a salary of $50 per week.{{cite news |title=Miss Dorothy Gulliver Wins Telegram Film Contest Honor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19688268/miss-dorothy-gulliver-wins-telegram/ |access-date=July 6, 2021 |work=The Salt Lake Telegram |date=June 12, 1925 |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}}
Gulliver's early work at Universal included two short films and two serials, The Winking Idol (1926) and Strings of Steel (1926). She was named as a 1928 WAMPAS Baby Star. Gulliver was part of The Collegians silent series of the late 1920s, and did some silent serials with William Desmond, Jack Hoxie, and Hoot Gibson. With the beginning of sound films, she became a popular heroine in 1930s "cliffhangers", including The Galloping Ghost, Phantom of the West, The Shadow of the Eagle, The Last Frontier, and 1936's Custer's Last Stand. Her costars were often Rex Lease, Tim McCoy, Jack Hoxie, and Wild Bill Elliott.
Gulliver was at one point married to Chester De Vito, an assistant director.Lamparski, p. 67. She was also married to Charles Proctor.{{Citation needed |date=November 2021}}
While major roles faded and she had uncredited roles, she made movies until 1976 and had a main role in Faces (1968). She died in Valley Center, California, on May 23, 1997, aged 88.{{Citation needed |date=November 2021}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable" |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
!style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title !style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role !style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan=3|1926
| | Lost Film |
| Strings of Steel
| | Lost Film |
| The Shoot 'Em Up Kid
| |Short |
| rowspan=4|1927
|Ruth Buxley | Lost Film |
| A Dog of the Regiment
|Marie von Waldorf | Lost Film |
| One Glorious Scrap
|Joan Curtis |Lost Film |
| The Shield of Honor
|Gwen O'Day | |
| rowspan=4|1928
|Lila Garland | Lost Film |
| Good Morning, Judge
|Ruth Grey | Lost Film |
| The Wild West Show
|Ruth Henson |Lost Film |
| Clearing the Trail
|Ellen |Lost Film |
| rowspan=5|1929
|Hagerty's Niece |Lost Film |
| College Love
|Dorothy Mae | Lost Film |
| Night Parade
|Doris O'Connell | |
| Painted Faces
|Babe Barnes | |
| Mexicali Rose
|Marie |Uncredited |
| rowspan=2|1930
|Dorothy Clark | |
| Under Montana Skies
|Mary | |
| rowspan=4|1931
|Mona Cortez | |
| In Old Cheyenne
|Helen Sutter | |
| The Galloping Ghost
|Barbara Courtland |Serial |
| The Fighting Marshal
|Alice Wheeler | |
| rowspan=4|1932
|Jean Gregory | |
| The Honor of the Press
|June Bonner | |
| The Last Frontier
|Betty Halliday | |
| Outlaw Justice
|June Taggart | |
| rowspan=3|1933
|Diane | |
| King Kong
|New York Theatergoer |Uncredited |
| Cheating Blondes
|Lita | |
| rowspan=2|1934
| His Sweetheart | |
| Stand Up and Cheer!
|Stenographer |Uncredited |
| 1935
|Pat | |
| 1936
|Red Fwan | |
| 1938
|Alice Weldon | |
| rowspan=2|1939
|Sue | |
| Lone Star Pioneers
|Virginia Crittenden | |
| rowspan=2|1941
|Minor Role |Uncredited |
| Borrowed Hero
|Snack Stand Clerk |Uncredited |
| rowspan=2|1942
|Miss Tindall |Uncredited |
| The Traitor Within
|Trucker's Wife |Uncredited |
| 1944
|Defense Plant Worker | |
| 1957
|Mrs. Samka |Episode: " Armor Attack" |
| 1968
|Florence | |
| 1976
|Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood |Old Woman on Bus |Cameo Appearance, (final film role) |
Sources
- Lamparski, R. (1989) Whatever became of ...?, all new eleventh series, Crown Publishers Inc.: New York. {{ISBN|0 517 57150 1}}.
References
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External links
{{commons category|Dorothy Gulliver}}
- {{IMDb name|0347827}}
- [http://www.b-westerns.com/ladies43.htm B-Western Heroines]
- [http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/1385/dorothy-gulliver Dorothy Gulliver] at Virtual History
- [http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/sayre/searchterm/dorothy%20gulliver/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/cosuppress/ Dorothy Gulliver portrait gallery] (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:Actresses from Salt Lake City