Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier (born Dorothy Patricia Valerga;[1] April 18, 1904 – November 19, 1993) was an American actress.
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| Born | Dorothy Patricia Valerga April 18, 1904 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 19, 1993 (aged 89) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1921–1936 |
| Spouse(s) | Harry Revier (?–1926) Charles Johnson (1926–?) William Pelayo (1950–1964) |
Biography
Revier was educated in the public schools of Oakland before going to New York City to study classical dancing. Later she went to Paris, France, to study and was discovered by a talent agent while working in a cabaret.
She made her film debut in The Broadway Madonna (1922), and was active throughout the 1920s, playing in The Virgin (1924), The Supreme Test (1923), An Enemy of Men (1925), The Far Cry (1926), Cleopatra (1928), Tanned Legs (1929) and The Iron Mask (1929). After recovering from two broken arms suffered in a 1930 car accident, she played roles in low-budget films for Columbia Pictures. In 1935 she played the role of a saloon girl in Paramount Pictures' second Hopalong Cassidy film, The Eagle's Brood, working alongside William Boyd. In many films she appeared as a vamp, and she later worked as a free-lance performer in Buck Jones westerns such as Lovable Liar (1933). The Cowboy and the Kid (1936) was her final film.
Personal life
Dorothy Revier was a child of the famous Valerga (her real last name) family of the Bay Area. Antionette an Opera singer at the Genoa Opera House and her violinist husband Ricardo came to San Francisco in 1849 for the Gold Rush. Their 11 children ended up to be founding performing members of the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Tivoli Opera. Revier father among the 11 children. Her sister Gladys was a screenwriter for RKO.
Dorothy was married three times, to the director, Harry J. Revier, and then to Charles Johnson, and finally to a commercial artist William Pelayo. All three marriages ended in divorce.
A resident of West Hollywood, Revier died at the age of 89, at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, and was interred at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles area, buried under the simple marker of name and dates, marked with the lone inscription, "Beloved Actress."
Partial filmography
- The Wild Party (1923)
- The Sword of Valor (1924)
- The Virgin (1924)
- The Cowboy and the Flapper (1924)
- The Other Kind of Love (1924)
- The Rose of Paris (1924)
- Do It Now (1924)
- An Enemy Of Men (1925)
- The Fate of a Flirt (1925)
- Just a Woman (1925)
- Steppin' Out (1925)
- The Far Cry (1926) - Yvonne Beaudet
- The Better Way (1926)
- Poker Faces (1926)
- When the Wife's Away (1926)
- The False Alarm (1926)
- Poor Girls (1927)
- The Price of Honor (1927)
- Wandering Girls (1927)
- Stolen Pleasures (1927)
- The Clown (1927)
- The Red Dance (1928)
- Submarine (1928)
- Sinner's Parade (1928)
- The Iron Mask (1929)
- The Quitter (1929)
- The Donovan Affair (1929)
- The Dance of Life (1929)
- The Mighty (1929)
- The Way of All Men (1930)
- The Squealer (1930)
- Call of the West (1930)
- Vengeance (1930)
- The Black Camel (1931)
- Anybody's Blonde (1931)
- Night World (1932)
- Beauty Parlor (1932)
- The King Murder (1932)
- No Living Witness (1932)
- The Secrets of Wu Sin (1932)
- Green Eyes (1934)
- Circumstantial Evidence (1935)
- The Lady in Scarlet (1935)
- The Eagle's Brood (1935)
- $20 a Week (1935)
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.
