Oscar winner Dorothy Malone, mom on Peyton Place, has died

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/20/oscar-winner-dorothy-malone-mom-on-peyton-place-has-died



Actress Dorothy Malone, who won hearts of 1960s television viewers as the long-suffering mother in the nighttime soap Peyton Place, died on Friday in her hometown of Dallas at age 93.

Malone died in an assisted living center from natural causes days before her 94th birthday, said her daughter, Mimi Vanderstraaten.

After 11 years of mostly roles as loving sweethearts and wives, the brunette actress decided she needed to gamble on her career instead of playing it safe. She fired her agent, hired a publicist, dyed her hair blonde and sought a new image.

“I came up with a conviction that most of the winners in this business became stars overnight by playing shady dames with sex appeal,” she recalled in 1967. She welcomed the offer for Written on the Wind, in which she played an alcoholic nymphomaniac who tries to steal Rock Hudson from his wife, Lauren Bacall.

“And I’ve been unfaithful or drunk or oversexed almost ever since on the screen, of course,” she added.

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Rest in peace, Ms Malone. She starred (with Robert Stack) in one of my favorite movies, The Last Voyage.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. She was so lovely - Here they are in "Written on the Wind"

That's Rock Hudson in the foreground:



And she played Mia Farrow's mother in "Peyton Place"

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2. I remember her.. it's hard

to believe she's that old.

I stood in line for the restrooms with a 90 year old woman tonight at a concert. She was fun to talk to.

Dorothy Malone RIP

[BumRushDaShow]

3. I remember her in "The Big Sleep"

with Bogart and Bacall. She also did alot of TV "guest star" roles in '70s series and was in the '70s Rich Man, Poor Man miniseries that I remember watching (and read the book at the time too).

R.I.P. and condolences to her family.