Vintage original 8x10 in. US double-weight matte photograph of the beautiful silent film actress, DOROTHY DALTON, c.early 1920's. The image is fantastic and depicts a close interior shot of Miss Dalton presumably wearing only a necklace as she gazes intently at the viewer while resting her chin on her hands while posing in front of a jet-black background. The side-lighting is especially effective and creates a very dramatic yet sensual image. This photograph has been inscribed in white ink by Dorothy Dalton in which she quotes a portion of Henry Wadsworth Longellow's famous poem, "Endymion" (1842)": No one is so accursed by Fate - No one so utterly desolate - But some heart, tho unknown - Responds unto his own. - Cordially - Dorothy Dalton. Printed on double-weight stock with a beautiful matte finish, this vintage original photograph has been lightly trimmed to 7.25 x 9.25 in. It is is in fine- condition with a very small area of staining just beneath Miss Dalton's nose and on her lip; a 2 in. and 1.25 in. diagonal crease on the top right corner; and a small circular white blemish about the size of a dime to the left of her head in the black background. The image quality is razor-sharp with fine detail and beautiful contrast.. Rare. Dorothy Dalton (September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972) was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago; Terre Haute, Indiana; and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was working in Hollywood. Born in Chicago, Dalton made her movie debut in 1914 in Pierre of the Plains, co-starring Edgar Selwyn, followed by the lead role in Across the Pacific that same year. In 1915, she appeared with William S. Hart in The Disciple. This production came before she left Triangle Film Corporation and was signed to Thomas Harper Ince Studios. While Ince meant to cast her in mature roles, she had preferred to play ingénues. Her role in The Disciple, however, in which she attracts a man who is not her husband, led to her being cast as a vamp. Her vamp, however, was untraditional in that she vamped unconsciously; in the words of Kay Anthony, "Not because she wanted people to think she was a full-fledged shatterer of hearts before the camera did she make pulses beat hard and fast, but because she couldn't help it: 'I guess I just must have been born that way!'" Ince's company was operative from 1919 until his death in 1924. With Ince, she played in The Price Mark and Love Letters, both co-starring William Conklin. Dalton also performed with Rudolph Valentino in Moran of the Lady Letty (1922) and with H.B. Warner in The Flame of the Yukon (1917) and The Vagabond Prince (1916). Dalton's stage career included performances as Chrysis in Aphrodite by Morris Gest in 1920 and on Broadway in The Country Wife and Aphrodite (1919).