Dorothy Cumming — A Charming Entangler (1925) 🇺🇸

Dorothy Cumming is cast as the troublesome charmer in nearly all her screen rôles. Her appearance makes this almost inevitable, for she is dark and Junoesque. Her tawny eyes have that dangerous look, and about her personality there is the necessary aura of allure.

But Miss Cumming does not care about being a vampire. “I think that a small blonde is the real vampire type,” she told me. “I am much too big. I don’t think I fit the rôle at all. But even though I feel that way I play the parts when they are offered to me because I like to see how much I can put into them myself to make them more human.”

Though Dorothy Cumming played on the stage for years before going into pictures, she is very frank in saying that she prefers the screen. She does go back on the stage once in a while, and that’s why you don’t see her so often. Her latest rôle is one in Gloria Swanson’s The Coast of Folly.

For being kept busy is something that Dorothy Cumming must have. She is one of those energetic persons who feels that she is dawdling terribly if she isn’t working every minute. Between mothering her two children — she is the wife of Frank Elliott, a screen actor recently turned assistant director — writing political and news notes for her home newspapers in Australia, acting on the stage and screen, and writing a play, she is a fairly busy young woman.

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Photo by: Maurice Goldberg

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, October 1925