THERE are a lot of actresses who think that the one and two-reel picture
is merely a stepping stone to the "feature" and make up their
minds to endure the lesser fame for the time. But one of these is not Dorothy
Devore, the youngster who has attracted so much attention in the two-reel
Christie Comedies released through Educational. For Miss Devore has had
her chance to become a star in the longer pictures, and she returned willingly
to her first love.
It was only recently that Al Christie loaned her to Charles Ray as his
leading woman in "Forty Five Minutes From Broadway" and there
she scored a big hit. But Miss Devore declined all other offers for feature
work and even refused a vacation from Christie, so that she could get to
work at once in making two-reelers. She has recently appeared in "Movie
Mad" and "Scrappily Married," and in these pictures she is
said to have established herself as one of the premier comediennes of the
screen.
Miss Devore is a Texas girl. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas on June
22, 1901, but while she was a young girl her family moved to Los Angeles,
where she finished her education. Instead of going into pictures, she joined
a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for a year. and then went
with Lyons and Moran in making comedies for Universal. There she was "discovered"
by Christie and she went with that company to appear first in small parts.
She has been seen in several score single reelers and only recently was
advanced to the first rank, with leading parts in the Christie specials.
Recent pictures are "The Reck1e'ss Sex,," "Sneakers"
and "Man vs. Woman."
Last year Miss Devore appeared in such Christie Comedies as "Nothing
Like It," "Saving Sister Susie," "Fair Enough,"
"One Stormy Knight" and "Mile-a-Minute Mary."
Within the last six months she has appeared in "Let 'Er Run,"
a horse-racing story which has attracted considerable comment; "Chop
Suey," in which she plays a Chinese flapper, and "Hazel From Hollywood,"
a satire on the movies, in which Al Christie has been specializing of late.
Miss Devore is just an inch over five feet, and tips the well-known scales
at 110. She has brown hair and eyes and is a typical outdoor girl. |