# Dolores Sutton > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dolores_Sutton > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dolores_Sutton.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Sutton > Source revision: 1356923150 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Englewood%2C_New_Jersey), US | years_active = 1950–1991 | spouse = Michael Reis (1956–1958; divorced) | alma_mater = [New York University](/source/New_York_University) }} '''Dolores Sutton''' (born '''Dolores Lila Silverstein''', February 4, 1927 – May 11, 2009) 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](/source/New_York_University) in 1948 with a B.A. in philosophy. == Career == In 1960, playwright [Sophie Treadwell](/source/Sophie_Treadwell) selected Sutton for the female lead in a revival of her play, ''[Machinal](/source/Machinal)'' after having seen the actress perform on television.{{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}} }} 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.{{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](/source/Newspapers.com)}} Her Broadway credits included ''Rhinoceros'' (1961), ''General Seeger'' (1962), and ''My Fair Lady'' (1993).{{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}} Sutton's work as a playwright included adapting [Thomas Wolfe](/source/Thomas_Wolfe)'s ''[The Web and the Rock](/source/The_Web_and_the_Rock)'' for the stage. Critic [John Simon](/source/John_Simon_(critic))'s review of a production of the play in ''[New York](/source/New_York_(magazine))'' magazine included the comment, "Most of the novel's sweep, its period panorama, was gone; what was left was the churning, puerile poeticism."{{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}} Sutton also had the lead in the play, leading another reviewer to write, "She is far better as an actress than as a writer."{{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](/source/Newspapers.com)}} == Death == Sutton died of cancer on May 11, 2009, at the [Actor's Home](/source/Lillian_Booth_Actors_Home) in [Englewood, New Jersey](/source/Englewood%2C_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](/source/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](/source/The_Mugger_(1958_film))'' *1963: ''Nine Miles to Noon'' as Julia Dimou *1966: ''[The Trouble with Angels](/source/The_Trouble_with_Angels_(film))'' as Sister Rose Marie *1968: ''[Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows](/source/Where_Angels_Go%2C_Trouble_Follows)'' as Sister Rose Marie *1986: ''[Dream Lover](/source/Dream_Lover_(1986_film))'' (voice) *1988: ''[Crossing Delancey](/source/Crossing_Delancey)'' as Aunt Miriam *1989: ''[Crimes and Misdemeanors](/source/Crimes_and_Misdemeanors)'' as Judah's Secretary *1990: ''[Tales from the Darkside: The Movie](/source/Tales_from_the_Darkside%3A_The_Movie)'' as Amanda (segment "Cat From Hell") ===Television=== *1963: ''[Gunsmoke](/source/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](/source/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}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, Dolores}} Category:1927 births Category:2009 deaths Category:American film actresses Category:American soap opera actresses Category:American stage actresses Category:American television actresses Category:Deaths from cancer in New Jersey Category:New York University alumni Category:Actresses from New York City Category:20th-century American actresses Category:21st-century American women {{US-film-actor-1920s-stub}} {{US-theat-actor-1920s-stub}} {{US-tv-actor-1920s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dolores Sutton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Sutton) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Sutton?action=history)). 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