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Marie Doro (May 25, 1882 – October 9, 1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era. She was born to Virginia Weaver and Richard Henry Stewart. She was a direct descendant of Patrick Henry. She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty. On Frohman's death in the ''Lusitania'' in 1915, she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor, though most of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances. In the early 1950s author Daniel Blum interviewed and included her in his book ''Great Stars of the American Stage'', an homage to many theatre performers, some dead, some still living at the time like Doro. Blum wrote a quick and mostly accurate rundown of her life and career and included several portraits from her Broadway years. He also included an early 1950s photo for fans who remembered but hadn't seen her in decades.〔''Great Stars of the American Stage'' ''Profile #48'' by Daniel C. Blum, c.1954〕 ==Personal life== Marie Doro was born as Marie Katherine Steward to Richard Henry Stewart and Virginia Weaver in Duncannon, Pennsylvania and began her career as a theater actress under the management of Charles Frohman before progressing to motion pictures in 1915, under contract with film producer Adolph Zukor. She was briefly married to the vaudeville and silent screen actor Elliott Dexter; the marriage soon ended in divorce. The marriage produced no children and Doro never remarried. Her name was linked over the years to much older William Gillette of ''Sherlock Holmes'' fame, who was consistently linked by the press with his leading ladies. The two appeared in ''The Admirable Crichton'' in 1903, in which the young Doro had a small part, ''Clarice'' and ''Sherlock Holmes'' in 1905-06, and ''Diplomacy'' in 1914. She also starred in Gillette's 1910 production of ''Electricity''. On a tour of England, she acted with the unknown teenage Charlie Chaplin, who was besotted with her. Later, when he was famous, they met in America, but she had to confess that she had no memory of him. Doro was a Dresden doll-like brunette, described by drama critic William Winter as “a young actress of piquant beauty, marked personality and rare expressiveness of countenance.”〔Winter, William, Introduction to ''The American Stage of To-day'' (P. F. Collier & Son, 1910).〕 She was talented, beautiful and a star in her own right. The few silent films of hers that survive show a gifted natural actress who did not always get the best parts. Lowell Thomas, the traveler, writer, and broadcaster, knew Doro well, saying that “her fragile-looking type of pulchritude caused her to be cast in usually insipid, pretty-pretty rôles.” Offstage, she was intelligent, an expert on Shakespeare and Elizabethan poetry, and possessed a penetrating humor and a sometimes acid wit. “She became associated with Gillette quite early in her career and he, a man of strong and powerful mind, exercised considerable influence over her development.” 〔Thomas, Lowell, ''Adventures Among Immortals'' (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937), p. 267.〕 As she later admitted, “For years I was hypnotized by two men – Frohman and William Gillette.”〔Morehouse, Ward, ''Matinee Tomorrow, Fifty Years of Our Theater'' (Whittlesey House, 1949), p. 17.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Doro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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