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Dolores Costello

1903 - 1979

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Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen" by her first husband, the actor John Barrymore. She was the mother of John Drew Barrymore and grandmother of actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dolores Costello is the 1,959th most popular actor (up from 2,133rd in 2019), the 3,522nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,441st in 2019) and the 960th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dolores Costello ranks 1,959 out of 13,578Before her are Billie Burke, Cheech Marin, Michel Constantin, Dragan Nikolić, Charles Lane, and Steve Blum. After her are Elisabeth Bergner, Estelle Getty, Götz George, Lisa Edelstein, Louis Tomlinson, and June Whitfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Dolores Costello ranks 129Before her are Howard P. Robertson, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, W. Ross Ashby, Barbara Hepworth, Walker Evans, and Joan Robinson. After her are Flaminio Bertoni, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Boris Blacher, Cigerxwîn, Vladimir Jankélévitch, and Russell Bufalino. Among people deceased in 1979, Dolores Costello ranks 90Before her are Helmut Hasse, Ahmad Zahir, Philippe Halsman, Yvonne de Gaulle, Antonio Caggiano, and Waldemar de Brito. After her are Teruo Nakamura, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Morteza Motahhari, Léonide Massine, José Della Torre, and Gio Ponti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dolores Costello ranks 3,522 out of 20,380Before her are Tom McCarthy (1966), Fanny Bullock Workman (1859), Richard Armitage (1945), Steve Blum (1960), Ethel Kennedy (1928), and Ace Frehley (1951). After her are Fred Kelly (1891), Estelle Getty (1923), James M. Cain (1892), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Carla Bley (1936), and Lisa Edelstein (1966).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dolores Costello ranks 960Before her are Robert Conrad (1935), David Doyle (1929), Billie Burke (1884), Cheech Marin (1946), Charles Lane (1905), and Steve Blum (1960). After her are Estelle Getty (1923), Lisa Edelstein (1966), Kelly Bishop (1944), Cynthia Nixon (1966), Michael Parks (1940), and Charles Napier (1936).