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Dolores Costello was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen". She was stepmother of John Barrymore's daughter Diana, by his second wife Blanche Oelrichs, the mother of John Drew Barrymore and Dolores Barrymore, and the grandmother of John Barrymore III, Blyth Dolores Barrymore, Brahma Blyth (Jessica) Barrymore, Hillary Bedell and Drew Barrymore.
Born
Thursday, 17 September 1903
Died
Thursday, 01 March 1979
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Mandela Catalogue | Mrs. Cedric 'Dearest' Errol | 2021 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Isabel Amberson Minafer (clip from The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)) | 2014 |
| Northern Exposure | Isabel Amberson Minafer | 1990 |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| American Masters | Esther Harper | 1986 |
| Hollywood | Self | 1980 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
| Splendor in the Grass | Actress in film clip from 'Glorious Betsy' | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Self | 1961 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Mandela Catalogue | Mrs. Cedric 'Dearest' Errol | 2021 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Isabel Amberson Minafer (clip from The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)) | 2014 |
| Northern Exposure | Isabel Amberson Minafer | 1990 |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| American Masters | Esther Harper | 1986 |
| Hollywood | Self | 1980 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
| Splendor in the Grass | Actress in film clip from 'Glorious Betsy' | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Self | 1961 |
| The Golden Twenties | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1950 |
| Gaslight Follies | Self | 1945 |
| This Is the Army | Mrs. Davidson | 1943 |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Isabel Amberson Minafer | 1942 |
| Outside These Walls | Margaret Bronson | 1939 |
| Whispering Enemies | Laura Crandall | 1939 |
| King of the Turf | Eve Barnes | 1939 |
| Breaking the Ice | Martha Martin | 1938 |
| The Beloved Brat | Helen Cosgrove | 1938 |
| Yours for the Asking | Lucille Sutton | 1936 |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | 'Dearest' / 'Dearest' Erroll | 1936 |
| March of the Movies | Self - film clip | 1933 |
| The Movie Album #2 | (archive footage) | 1932 |
| Expensive Women | Connie Newton / Constance 'Connie' Newton | 1931 |
| Second Choice | Vallery Grove | 1930 |
| Show of Shows | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' Number | 1929 |
| Madonna of Avenue A | Maria Morton | 1929 |
| Glad Rag Doll | Annabel Lee | 1929 |
| The Redeeming Sin | Joan Billaire | 1929 |
| Noah's Ark | Miriam / Marie | 1928 |
| Tenderloin | Rose Shannon | 1928 |
| Glorious Betsy | Betsy Patterson | 1928 |
| The Circus: Premiere | Herself | 1928 |
| The College Widow | Jane Witherspoon | 1927 |
| Old San Francisco | Dolores Vasquez | 1927 |
| The Heart of Maryland | Maryland Calvert | 1927 |
| The Heart of Maryland | Maryland Calvert | 1921 |
| A Million Bid | Dorothy Gordon | 1927 |
| When a Man Loves | Manon Lescaut | 1927 |
| The Third Degree | Annie Daly | 1926 |
| The Little Irish Girl | Dot Walker | 1926 |
| Bride of the Storm | Faith Fitzhugh | 1926 |
| The Sea Beast | Esther Harper | 1926 |
| Mannequin | Joan Herrick | 1926 |
| Bobbed Hair | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1925 |
| Greater Than a Crown | Isabel Frances / Princess of Lividia | 1925 |
| The Glimpses of the Moon | Secondary Role | 1923 |
| How Cissy Made Good | Self | 1915 |
| The Money Kings | 1912 | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Fairy | 1909 |
