Dorothy Devore — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

There are a lot of actresses who think that the one and two-reel picture is merely a stepping stone to the “feature” and make up their minds to endure the lesser fame for the time.

But one of these is not Dorothy Devore, the youngster who has attracted so much attention in the two-reel Christie Comedies released through Educational. For Miss Devore has had her chance to become a star in the longer pictures, and she returned willingly to her first love.

It was only recently that Al Christie loaned her to Charles Ray as his leading woman in “Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway” and there she scored a big hit. But Miss Devore declined all other offers for feature work and even refused a vacation from Christie, so that she could get to work at once in making two-reelers. She has recently appeared in “Movie Mad” and “Scrappily Married,” and in these pictures she is said to have established herself as one of the premier comediennes of the screen.

Miss Devore is a Texas girl. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, June 22, 1901, but while she was a young girl her family moved to Los Angeles, where she finished her education. Instead of going into pictures, she joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for a year, and then went with Lyons and Moran in making comedies for Universal.

There she was “discovered” by Christie and she went with that company to appear first in small parts. She has been seen in several score single reelers and only recently was advanced to the first rank, with leading parts in the Christie specials. Recent pictures are “The Reckless Sex,” “Sneakers” and “Man vs. Woman.”

Last year Miss Devore appeared in such Christie Comedies as “Nothing Like It,” “Saving Sister Susie,” “Fair Enough,” “One Stormy Knight” and “Mile-a-Minute Mary.”

Within the last six months she has appeared in “Let ‘Er Run,” a horse-racing story which has attracted considerable comment; “Chop Suey,” in which she plays a Chinese flapper, and “Hazel from Hollywood,” a satire on the movies, in which Al Christie has been specializing of late.

Miss Devore is just an inch over five feet, and tips the well-known scales at 110. She has brown hair and eyes and is a typical outdoor girl.

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)