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Dolores Costello
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Actor Born: September 17, 1905 in Pittsburgh, PA Death: March 1, 1979 in California Biography:"Dolores Costello" was a delicate blonde beauty who projected patrician poise as a lead actress. The daughter of stage-screen matinee idol "Maurice Costello", she and her sister (actress "Helene Costello") began appearing as children in Vitagraph films that starred their father. As a teenager, Costello became a model for top New York illustrators, then began playing bit roles at age 17 in East Coast productions. She and her sister formed a successful dance duet on the New York stage in the George White Scandals of 1924, leading to the two of them being signed to film contracts by Warner Bros. Her career moved slowly at first, but took off as a sudden star after her appearance opposite "John Barrymore" in "The Sea Beast" (1926), a romanticized adaptation of Moby Dick; she and Barrymore were married in 1928. She went on to be one of the leading stars of the late '20s and early '30s, making the transition... Full Biography
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