Dorothy Malone

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. Malone was married and divorced three times and has two daughters from her first marriage. A corporate remnant named RKO Pictures was purchased by Merrill and Ted Hartley in 1989 with a plan to resurrect it as a motion picture production company. Her last notable screen appearance was as a mother convicted of murdering her family in Basic Instinct (1992), with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. Her second husband (of three) was the American actor Cliff Robertson (married 1966, divorced 1986). Malone became a household name when she accepted the lead role of Constance MacKenzie Carson on the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, on which she starred from 1964 through 1968. Hutton and Post cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, her first film was Desk Set (1957), in which she played Sylvia Blair, one of the researchers whose supervisor was Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn).

As a result, she was offered meatier roles in better films, including Man of a Thousand Faces (with James Cagney), Tarnished Angels (again with Hudson and Stack, again directed by Sirk), and The Last Voyage (with Stack). The daughter of Wall Street wizard Edward F. Her portrayal of the dipso-nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas oil baron won her the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. Nedinia Hutton Rumbough Robertson Hartley (born 9 December 1925) is a United States actress known as Dina Merrill. In 1956, Malone dyed her hair blonde to co-star with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's melodrama, Written on the Wind. Much of her early career was spent in supporting roles in Grade-B Westerns, although on occasion she had the opportunity to play small but memorable roles, such as that of the young, brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart, in 1946.

She was born as Dorothy Eloise Maloney on January 30, 1925. Dorothy Malone is an American actress.