Dolores Cassinelli

{{Short description|American actress and singer (1888–1984)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Dolores Cassinelli | image = Dolores Cassinelli 1919.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = Cassinelli, 1919 | birth_name = Elvere Dolores Cassinelli | birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|07|04}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1984|4|26|1888|07|04}} | death_place = New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. | occupation = Actress, singer | years_active = 1911–1925 }} '''Dolores Cassinelli''' (July 4, 1888<ref>Born in 1888 as per Social Security Death Index</ref> – April 26, 1984)<ref>''Silent Film Necrology'', p.84 2nd edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana</ref> was an American film actress and singer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tenor Featured |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67446998/the-evening-sun/ |access-date=January 12, 2021 |work=The Evening Sun |date=March 20, 1929 |location=Maryland, Baltimore |page=27|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She appeared in 69 films between 1911 and 1925.

Born in New York City, Cassinelli and her family moved to Chicago. Her parents put her in a convent with plans for her to become a nun, but she preferred to become an actress.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Charles Donald |last2=Silver |first2=Milton L. |title=Who's who on the Screen |year=1920 |publisher=Ross publishing Company |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DAOAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Dolores+Cassinelli%22&pg=PA214 |access-date=January 12, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

By 1929, Cassinelli had left acting and turned to singing professionally. She said that she would return to films only if she could make a singing film, "for radio is my life now".<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio Wins Singer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67447536/dorores-cassinelli/ |access-date=January 12, 2021 |work=The Morning Call |date=March 20, 1929 |location=Pennsylvania, Allentown |page=25|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

She is interred at Holy Redeemer Cemetery in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

==Selected filmography== * ''A False Suspicion'' (1911) * ''From the Submerged'' (1912) *short * ''When Soul Meets Soul'' (1913) *short * ''Lafayette, We Come'' (1918) * ''The Virtuous Model'' (1919) * ''Tarnished Reputations'' (1920) * ''The Web of Deceit'' (1920) * ''Forever'' (1921) * ''Anne of Little Smoky'' (1921) * ''The Hidden Light'' (1921)<ref>{{cite news |title=Keith's-"The Hidden Light." |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59978319/keiths-the-hidden-light/ |work=Buffalo Courier |date=13 June 1921 |page=5|via=newspapers.com}}</ref> * ''The Secrets of Paris'' (1922) * ''The Challenge'' (1922) * ''Columbus'' (1923) - Queen Isabella * ''Jamestown'' (1923) - Pocahontas * ''Dangerous Money'' (1924) * ''Lend Me Your Husband'' (1924) * ''The Unguarded Hour'' (1925) * ''The Midnight Girl'' (1925)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} {{commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0144293}} *{{Find a Grave|9021254}}

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