From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed The Goddess of the Silent Screen. She was stepmother of John Barrymores daughter Diana by his second wife Blanche Oelrichs, the mother of John Drew Barrymore and Dolores (Dee Dee) Barrymore, and the grandmother of John Barrymore III, Blyth Dolores Barrymore, Brahma Blyth (Jessica) Barrymore, and Drew Barrymore.Dolores Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of actors Maurice Costello and Mae Costello (née Altschuk). She was of Irish and German descent. She had a younger sister, Helene, and the two made their first film appearances in the years 1909–1915 as child actresses for the Vitagraph Film Company. They played supporting roles in several films starring their father, who was a popular matinee idol at the time.The two sisters appeared on Broadway together as chlorines and their success resulted in contracts with Warner Brothers Studios. In 1926, following small parts in feature films, she was selected by John Barrymore to star opposite him in The Sea Beast, a loose adaptation of Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick. Warner Bros. soon began starring her in her own vehicles. Meanwhile, she and Barrymore became romantically involved and married in 1928.Within a few years of achieving stardom, the delicately beautiful blonde-haired actress had become a successful and highly regarded film personality in her own right. As a young adult her career developed to the degree that in 1926 she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star, and had acquired the nickname The Goddess of the Silver Screen.Warners alternated Costello between films with contemporary settings and elaborate costume dramas. In 1927 she was re-teamed with John Barrymore in When a Man Loves, an adaptation of Manon Lescaut. In 1928 she co-starred with George OBrien in Noahs Ark, a part-talkie epic directed by Michael Curtiz.Costello spoke with a lisp and found it difficult to make the transition to talking pictures, but after two years of voice coaching she was comfortable speaking before a microphone. One of her early sound film appearances was with her sister Helene in Warner Bros.s all-star extravaganza The Show of Shows (1929).Her acting career became less a priority for her following the birth of her first child, Dolores Ethel Mae DeeDee Barrymore, on April 8, 1930, and she retired from the screen in 1931 to devote time to her family. Her second child, John Drew Barrymore, was born on June 4, 1932, but the marriage proved difficult due to her husbands increasing alcoholism, and they divorced in 1935.She resumed her career a year later and achieved some successes, most notably in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). She retired permanently from acting following her appearance in This is the Army (1943), again under the direction of Michael Curtiz.In 1950 Costello divorced Dr. John Vruwink, whom she had married in 1939. She spent the remaining years of her life in semi-seclusion, managing an avocado farm.She died from emphysema in Fallbrook, California in 1979.
Laura Crandall
Film 1939
Mrs. Davidson
Film 1943
Film 1953
Daughter
Film 1910
Martha Martin
Film 1938
Constance 'Connie' Newton
Film 1931
Secondary Role
Film 1923
The Widow's 1st Child
Film 1911
Manon Lescaut
Film 1927
Fairy
Film 1909
Betsy Patterson
Film 1928
Margaret Bronson
Film 1939
Esther Harper
Film 1926
Helen Cosgrove
Film 1938
Little Dolores Gray
Film 1913
Neighbor Girl
Film 1913
Film 1911
Film 1911
The Little Stowaway
Film 1914
Buster aka Budge
Film 1911
Film 1911
Film 1914
Film 1914
David - as a Little Boy
Film 1915
Mr. Blinn's Granddaughter
Film 1912
Betty Lane - John's Daughter
Film 1911
One of Widow Brown's Children
Film 1912
Alice - the Child
Film 1912
Film 1912
Film 1912
Film 1915
Nora the maid
Film 1923
Jane - Alvin's Sweetheart
Film 1912
Mrs. Hanley's Little Girl
Film 1912
Film 1912
Ruth - Barnacle's Adopted Daughter
Film 1912
Little Janet - the Grandchild
Film 1912
Bobby Ramsay
Film 1912
Fourth Child
Film 1912
(uncredited)
Film 1925
Isabel Frances / Princess of Lividia
Film 1925
Faith Fitzhugh
Film 1926
Dot Walker
Film 1926
Dolores Tilbury - the Older Child
Film 1913
Little Dot Avery
Film 1912
Film 1913
Little Bess M.
Film 1912
Vallery Grove
Film 1930
Self (archive footage)
Film 2009
Self
Film 1928
Dolores Vasquez
Film 1927
Rose Shannon
Film 1928
Lucille Sutton
Film 1936
Self (archive footage)
Film 1950
Ida - the Little Smith Girl
Film 1912
Dorothy Gordon
Film 1927
One of Tom's Children
Film 1912
Lulu
Film 1912
Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number
Film 1929
Joan Billaire
Film 1929
Annabel Lee
Film 1929
Maria Morton
Film 1929
Joan Herrick
Film 1926
Vera Zuanova
Film 1929
Eve Barnes
Film 1939
(archive footage)
Film 1990
Jane Witherspoon
Film 1927
Annie Daly
Film 1926
Maryland Calvert
Film 1927
Mrs. Cedric 'Dearest' Errol (archive footage)
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