Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello is the grandmother of actress Drew Barrymore. Scott, and is the mother of actor Campbell Scott. Dolores Costello has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1645 Vine Street. Dewhurst was married to James Vickery and to George C. Her interview scenes were broadcast posthumously in 1980. She died of cervical cancer at age sixty-seven. She died from emphysema in Fallbrook, California in 1979. Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, but in the last years of her life she lived on a farm in South Salem, New York with a summer home on Prince Edward Island.

Shortly before her death, she agreed to be interviewed for the documentary series Hollywood discussing her film career. Over the course of her 45 year career, she won a total of four Emmys, two Tony Awards, two Obies and two Gemini Awards. She retired in 1943. Dewhurst also had a recurring role on the CBS TV series Murphy Brown, for which she won two Emmys. Costello attempted to resume her career and achieved some successes, most notably in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Colleen Dewhurst (3 June 1924 - 22 August 1991) was a Canadian actress best known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan Entertainment. Her breakthrough stage role, which made her a major success, came in 1974 after 27 years of acting, when she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. Her acting career became less of a priority for her following the birth of her children, however her marriage to Barrymore proved to be a difficult one due to his increasing alcoholism, and they were divorced in 1935.

Costello spoke with a lisp, and found it difficult to make the transition to talking pictures, but after two years of voice coaching she was comfortable speaking before a microphone. In 1926 she starred along with John Barrymore in The Sea Beast and after a two year affair, the couple married in 1928. By the mid twenties, she had become a successful and highly regarded film personality in her own right, and as a young adult her career developed to the degree that in 1926 she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star, and had acquired the name "The Goddess of the Silver Screen". The two sisters appeared on Broadway together and their success resulted in contracts with Warner Brothers Studios.

She made her first film appearances, along with her sister Helene, as a child in her father's films. Costello was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the daughter of actors Maurice and Mae Costello. Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 - March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies.