Background
She was born in Houston, Texas and began her stage career as a whistler.
She was born in Houston, Texas and began her stage career as a whistler.
She tenured for fifteen years in vaudeville before getting her first dramatic role in Paris By Night. This was the play which Stanford White was watching on the roof of Madison Square Garden when he was shot multiple times and murdered by Harry K. Thaw, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania coal and railroad scion. The date was June 25, 1906.
(This event is featured in Ragtime (novel) and Ragtime (film)).
Mission Walters was most noted for her character roles in theater. A memorable one came in Dinner at Eight (play), playing the part of the cook.
Also she played in The Warrior"s Husband and Mr. Gilhooly (1930), among others
Dorothy created the role of the mother in Irene (musical), which she performed for eighty-five weeks.
As an actress she supported such famous luminaries as Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, and Minnie Maddern Fiske. As a motion picture performer Walters career lasted seven years from 1918 until 1925. Her first film is. Her other screen credits include Children Not Wanted and The Veiled Marriage, both 1920, and and A Kiss Foreign Cinderella (1925).
Dorothy Walters died in 1934 at her residence, 236 West Seventieth Street, New York, New New York
She succumbed from bronchial pneumonia. Her funeral was conducted by Crowley"s Funeral Parlor, 597 Lexington Avenue, New New York
The actress was 56.