The Wild Party (1923) Herbert Blache with DOROTHY REVIER
Réalisateur:
Herbert Blaché
Release Date:
22 octobre 1923 (USA) suite
(Interprètes principaux)
Gladys Walton ... Leslie Adams
Robert Ellis ... Basil Wingate / Stuart Furth
Freeman Wood ... Jack Cummings
Dorothy Revier ... Blanche Cartwright
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier (April 18, 1904 - November 19, 1993) was an American silent film actress from Oakland, California. Her birth name was Dorothy Velerga. She is described as dainty, standing about 5'4" in height.Professional dancer
She was educated in the public schools of Oakland before going to New York City to study classical dancing. Later she went to Paris, France, and studied with the most notable dance instructors. She developed a great proficiency in the art. She became a cabaret dancer and was discovered by a talent agent.
Star of the silent Screen and early Westerns
Her ability as a professional dancer and her talent in playing emotional roles before the camera enhanced her popularity among Hollywood directors. Her debut as a star in came in The Broadway Madonna (1922). She was active throughout the 1920s, playing in The Virgin (1924),The Wild party, The Supreme Test (1923), An Enemy of Men (1925), Cleopatra (1928), and Tanned Legs (1929). After recovering from two broken arms suffered in a 1930 car accident, she played numerous film roles in low-budget silent movies and early sound motion pictures. Often she appeared as a femme fatale. In 1929 Dorothy played opposite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in The Iron Mask. Her film career declined with the coming of sound and by the end of the 1930s she was performing mostly in Buck Jones Westerns. After spending the majority of her film career as as among the brightest stars of Columbia Pictures, Dorothy free-lanced for about a year and a half. She returned to movies in 1933 with a part in Lovable Liar with Buck Jones and Arthur Rankin. Her last role was 'June Caldwell' in The Cowboy and
the Kid (1936).Noted For facial beauty
In November 1935 Dorothy was selected as the first of twenty film stars to pose for portraits of beautiful women. The portraits were to be presented in the Salon d' Art exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1936.
Marriage and death
commercial artist William Pelayo. Both unions ended in divorce. In February 1923 the actress and Harry Revier were parents of a three-year-old baby. At the time the director was charged by his second wife, Mrs. Betty Revier, with bigamy. Betty was a former actress who filed theMiss Revier was married twice. One marriage was to director Harry J. Revier and the other to suit in a San Jose, California courtroom. Dorothy met Harry Revier in the summer of 1921 at Taft's old Farrell street cafe. He was filming Life's Greatest Question and was seeking a dancer. He offered her a role and she accepted.
Dorothy Revier died at the age of 89 at Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and was interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Hollywood Hills, California, USA. She had been a resident of West Hollywood.
References
* Fresno, California Bee Republican, Louella Parsons Column, February 1, 1933, Page 4.
* The New York Times, Dorothy Revier Dead; Silent Film Actress, 89, November 25, 1993, Page D19.
* Oakland, California Tribune, Mother Wife In Oakland Maid's Bigamy Tangle, February 23, 1923, Page 15.
* Oakland Tribune, Oakland Girl Screen Star, Sunday, June 10, 1923, Page 12-A.
* Oakland Tribune, In New Hall of Fame, Thursday Evening, November 10, 1935, Page B25.
Was one of thirteen Wampas Baby Stars of 1925.
Alternate Names:
Dorothy Valegra
Filmography
1. The Cowboy and the Kid (1936) .... June Caldwell
2. The Eagle's Brood (1935) .... Dolly
3. The Lady in Scarlet (1935) .... Julia Sayre
4. Circus Shadows (1935)
5. Circumstantial Evidence (1935) .... Bernice Winters
6. Twenty Dollars a Week (1935) .... Linda Davidson
... aka The Man Maker (UK)
7. When a Man Sees Red (1934) .... Barbara
8. The Curtain Falls (1934) .... Helene Deveridge
9. Green Eyes (1934) .... Mrs. Pritchard
10. Unknown Blonde (1934) .... Helen Rodie
... aka The Man Who Pawned His Soul
11. The Fighting Ranger (1934) .... Tonita, Cantina Singer
12. By Candlelight (1933) .... Countess von Rischenheim
13. Above the Clouds (1933) .... Dolly
... aka Winged Devils (UK)
14. The Thrill Hunter (1933) .... Marjorie Lane
15. Love Is Dangerous (1933) .... Pat Ormsby
... aka Dangerous Love (USA: TV title)
... aka No Shame (USA: reissue title)
... aka Women Are Dangerous (UK)
16. Secrets of Wu Sin (1932) .... Margaret King
17. A Scarlet Week-End (1932) .... The Wife
18. The King Murder (1932) .... Miriam King
... aka The King Murder Case
19. No Living Witness (1932) .... Miss Thompson
20. The Widow in Scarlet (1932) .... Baroness Orsani
... aka Lady Raffles (USA: TV title)
21. Beauty Parlor (1932) .... Stella
22. Night World (1932) .... Mrs. 'Happy' Mac Donald
23. Arm of the Law (1932) .... Mrs. Estelle Brandess
24. Sin's Pay Day (1932) .... Iris Markey
... aka Slums of New York (USA: reissue title)
25. Sally of the Subway (1932) .... Sally
26. The Last Ride (1931) .... Lita Alvaro
27. Anybody's Blonde (1931) .... Janet Reese
... aka Girl Reporter (USA: TV title)
... aka When Blonde Meets Blonde (UK)
28. Leftover Ladies (1931) .... Army
... aka Broken Links (UK)
29. Graft (1931) .... Pearl Vaughan
30. The Black Camel (1931) .... Shelah Fane
31. The Avenger (1931) .... Helen Lake
32. The Bad Man (1930) .... Ruth Pell
33. The Way of All Men (1930) .... Poppy
... aka The Sin Flood (UK)
34. The Squealer (1930) .... Margaret Hart
35. Call of the West (1930) .... Violet La Tour
36. Hold Everything (1930) .... Norine Lloyd
37. Vengeance (1930) .... Margaret Summers
38. Murder on the Roof (1930) .... Molly
39. The Mighty (1929) .... Mayme
40. Tanned Legs (1929) .... Mrs. Lyons-King
41. The Dance of Life (1929) .... Sylvia Marco
42. Light Fingers (1929) .... Dorothy Madison
43. Father and Son (1929) .... Grace Moore
44. The Donovan Affair (1929) .... Jean Rankin
45. The Quitter (1929) .... Patricia
46. The Iron Mask (1929) .... Milady de Winter
47. Sinner's Parade (1928) .... Mary Tracy
48. Submarine (1928) .... Bessie, Mrs. Jack Dorgan
49. Cleopatra (1928)
50. Beware of Blondes (1928) .... Mary
51. The Red Dance (1928) .... Princess Varvara
... aka The Red Dancer of Moscow (UK)
52. The Siren (1927) .... Glenna Marsh
53. The Warning (1927) .... Mary Blake
54. The Tigress (1927) .... Mona, 'The Tigress'
55. The Drop Kick (1927) .... Mrs. Eunice Hathaway
... aka Glitter (UK)
56. The Clown (1927) .... Fanchon
57. Poor Girls (1927) .... Peggy Warren
58. The Price of Honor (1927) .... Carolyn McLane
59. Wandering Girls (1927) .... Peggy Marston
60. Stolen Pleasures (1927) .... Clara Bradley
61. The Better Way (1926) .... Betty Boyd
62. When the Wife's Away (1926) .... Ethel Winthrop
63. The False Alarm (1926) .... Mary Doyle
64. Poker Faces (1926) .... Prizefighter's wife
65. The Far Cry (1926) .... Yvonne Beaudet
66. When Husbands Flirt (1925) .... Violet Gilbert
67. The Fate of a Flirt (1925) .... Mary Burgess
68. Steppin' Out (1925) .... Daisy Moran
69. Sealed Lips (1925) .... Margaret Blake
70. The Danger Signal (1925) .... Laura Whitman
71. An Enemy of Men (1925) .... Norma Bennett
72. Just a Woman (1925) .... Clarice Clement
73. Dangerous Pleasure (1925)
74. The Rose of Paris (1924) .... Florine du Vallois
75. Man from God's Country (1924) .... Camencita
76. That Wild West (1924)
77. The Cowboy and the Flapper (1924) .... Alice Allison
78. Border Women (1924) .... May Prentiss
79. The Virgin (1924) .... Maía Valdez
80. Call of the Mate (1924)
81. The Other Kind of Love (1924) .... Elsie
82. Down by the Rio Grande (1924)
83. The Sword of Valor (1924)
84. The Martyr Sex (1924) .... Beulah Paxton
85. Do It Now (1924)
86. Marry in Haste (1924) .... Joan Prescott
87. The Supreme Test (1923)
88. The Wild Party (1923) .... Blanche Cartwright
89. The Broadway Madonna (1922) .... Vivian Collins
90. Life's Greatest Question (1921) (as Dorothy Valegra) .... Dorothy Cumberland
Self:
1. Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 (1930) .... Herself, Columbia Actress
