Academy Award-winning actress Dorothy Malone died at the age of 93, according to reports.
Her daughter, Mimi Vanderstraaten, said that she died of natural causes.
She won an Oscar for “Written on the Wind” in 1956. She appeared in dozens of movies, including Westerns, crime films, and musicals.
In 1954, as AP reported, she changed her hair color to blond for “Young at Heart,” which also starred Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.
“I came up with a conviction that most of the winners in this business became stars overnight by playing shady dames,” she said.
Mia Farrow, who appeared in “Peyton Place” with Malone, tweeted: “RIP Dorothy Malone, my beautiful TV mom for two amazing years.”
She got married three times. “I don’t have very good luck in men,” she said, according to AP. “I had a tendency to endow a man qualities he did not possess.” A reporter suggested that she was well-off due to “Peyton Place” money, and she replied: “Don’t you believe it. I had a husband who took me to the cleaners. The day after we were married he was on the phone selling off my stuff.”
Malone is survived by her brother, who is retired U.S. District Judge Robert B. Maloney, and another daughter, Diane Thompson.
Some film credits include “Janie Gets Married” (1946), “Night and Day” (1946), “Two Guys From Texas” (1948), “One Sunday Afternoon” (1948) “Loophole” (1954), “Pushover” (1954), “Sincerely Yours” (1955), “The Fast and the Furious” (1955), “Beach Party” (1963), “Winter Kills” (1979), and more.
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