CREDIT: Courtesy family of Dorothy Malone
 
Dorothy Malone, star of the big and small screen with "Written on the Wind,"
"Basic Instinct" and "Peyton Place," died on Friday morning in Dallas of
natural causes. She was 92.
 
Working in the Golden Age of Hollywood, the striking blonde actress won an
Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in Douglas Sirk's
melodrama "Written on the Wind," which she starred in with Rock Hudson, Lauren
Bacall and Robert Stack. Among her more notable early roles was the bookshop
proprietress in "The Big Sleep" opposite Humphrey Bogart.
 
After years of smaller roles, the Oscar helped her secure roles in larger
projects like "Too Much, Too Soon," "Man of a Thousand Faces," and "Warlock."
She would frequently work with Hudson throughout the 1960s, as she played
opposite him twice more in "The Tarnished Angels" and "The Last Sunset."
 
After years in the film business, Malone waded into television with a starring
role on prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place" from 1964 to 1968. She later
revived her Constance MacKenzie character in TV movies based on the series,
1977's "Murder in Peyton Place" and 1985's "Peyton Place: The Next Generation."
 She also appeared in a number of miniseries, including "Rich Man, Poor Man"
and "Condominium."
 
Malone's last on-screen appearance may be one of her most famous, playing a
mother convicted of murdering her family in 1992's "Basic Instinct," alongside
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.
 
Originally Dorothy Maloney, the star was born in Chicago but grew up in Dallas,
 attending Southern Methodist University. She was discovered there by a talent
scout while acting in a school play, and soon after was signed to a studio
contract.
 
Manager Burt Shapiro reported her death.
 
She was married and divorced three times, to actor Jacques Bergerac, Robert
Tomarkin and Charles Huston Bell. She is survived by two daughters she had with
 Bergerac, Mimi and Diane.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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