Dolores Sutton

{{short description|American actress (1927–2009)}} {{More citations needed |date=March 2021}} {{Use American English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Dolores Sutton | birth_name = Dolores Lila Silverstein | birth_date = {{birth date|1927|2|4}} | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|5|11|1927|2|4}} | death_place = Englewood, New Jersey, US | years_active = 1950–1991 | spouse = Michael Reis (1956–1958; divorced) | alma_mater = New York University }}

'''Dolores Sutton''' (born '''Dolores Lila Silverstein''', February 4, 1927 – May 11, 2009)<ref name="ibdb" /> was an American actress, writer and playwright. Her career spanned seven decades and encompassed television, stage and movie roles.

==Early years== Born in New York City to Benjamin and Mary Silverstein, Sutton graduated from New York University in 1948 with a B.A. in philosophy.

== Career == In 1960, playwright Sophie Treadwell selected Sutton for the female lead in a revival of her play, ''Machinal'' after having seen the actress perform on television.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Calta |first1=Louis |title='Machina' opens at Gate March 9 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/115062227 |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1960 |page=42|id={{ProQuest|115062227}} }}</ref>

While working on her master's degree, Sutton wrote a radio script (''Siblings''), sold it to NBC, and landed the voice role. This started her career as an actress and writer. {{Citation needed|date=October 2011}}

As an actress, Sutton worked in experimental theater and was a star with the National Repertory Company.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wolfe Play Planned For New York Stage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73988047/asheville-citizen-times/ |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=Asheville Citizen-Times |date=December 5, 1971 |location=North Carolina, Asheville |page=26|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her Broadway credits included ''Rhinoceros'' (1961), ''General Seeger'' (1962), and ''My Fair Lady'' (1993).<ref name="ibdb">{{cite web |title=Dolores Sutton |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dolores-sutton-72630 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321024425/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/dolores-sutton-72630 |archive-date=March 21, 2021}}</ref>

Sutton's work as a playwright included adapting Thomas Wolfe's ''The Web and the Rock'' for the stage. Critic John Simon's review of a production of the play in ''New York'' magazine included the comment, "Most of the novel's sweep, its period panorama, was gone; what was left was the churning, puerile poeticism."<ref name="ny">{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=John |title=Obsolete Parlances |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YImzM1Sj5sMC&q=%22Dolores+Sutton%22&pg=PA65 |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=New York |date=April 3, 1972 |page=65}}</ref> Sutton also had the lead in the play, leading another reviewer to write, "She is far better as an actress than as a writer."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Emory |title=Wolfe As Soap Opera |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73987435/dolores-sutton/ |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=The Record |date=March 20, 1972 |location=New Jersey, Hackensack |page=16|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Death == Sutton died of cancer on May 11, 2009, at the Actor's Home in Englewood, New Jersey,{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} aged 82.

==Acting credits== ===Stage=== Sutton played lead roles in three Broadway plays. *1960: ''Rhinoceros'' as Daisy *1961: ''General Seeger'' as The Woman *1994: ''My Fair Lady'' as Mrs. Higgins

Her Off-Broadway credits include leading roles in the following plays: *1956: ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' as Molly *1958: ''Career'' as Barbara Neilson *1960: ''Machinal'' as Helen Jones when she won the Vernon Rice Citation *1963: ''Brecht on Brecht'' *1969: ''To Be Young Gifted and Black'' in various roles *1972: ''The Web and the Rock'' as Esther (also the playwright) *1973: ''The Seagull'' as Irina Arkadina *1990: ''What's Wrong with This Picture'' as Bella

===Film=== *1958: ''The Mugger'' *1963: ''Nine Miles to Noon'' as Julia Dimou *1966: ''The Trouble with Angels'' as Sister Rose Marie *1968: ''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows'' as Sister Rose Marie *1986: ''Dream Lover'' (voice) *1988: ''Crossing Delancey'' as Aunt Miriam *1989: ''Crimes and Misdemeanors'' as Judah's Secretary *1990: ''Tales from the Darkside: The Movie'' as Amanda (segment "Cat From Hell")

===Television=== *1963: ''Gunsmoke'' as Jenny Gant in “The Bad One” (S8:E20)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0840300|Dolores Sutton}} *{{IBDB name|72630}} *{{iobdb name|5769}} *[http://archives.nypl.org/the/21847 Dolores Sutton papers, 1945-1996 and undated], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts *[https://web.archive.org/web/20121006181817/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Dolores&last=Sutton&middle= LLA archive] {{Authority control}}

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