Gloria Dickson
Birthday
1916/08/13
Day of death
1945/04/10 (28 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Pocatello, Idaho, USA
Also know as
Thais Alalia Dickerson
Biography
Gloria Dickson (born Thais Alalia Dickerson; August 13, 1917 – April 10, 1945) was an American stage and screen actress of the 1930s and 1940s. In April 1936, as she worked in a production of the Federal Theatre Project, she was spotted by Warner Bros. talent scout Max Arnow, who signed her to a contract. Her film debut in 1937's They Won't Forget landed her on the top of Hollywood's short list of important up-and-comers, a distinction that garnered her enormous publicity. In Autumn 1937, she w...Read more
Acting
(1939) They Made Me a Criminal
as Peggy
(1937) They Won't Forget
as Sybil Hale
(1943) Lady of Burlesque
as Dolly Baxter
(1943) The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
as Mrs. Keppler / Evelyn Fenton Cartwright
(1938) Racket Busters
as Nora Jordan
(1943) Power of the Press
as Edwina Stephens
(1939) On Your Toes
as Peggy Porterfield
(1939) The Cowboy Quarterback
as Evelyn Corey
(1938) Gold Diggers in Paris
as Mona Verdivere
(1941) The Big Boss
as Sue Peters
(1938) Secrets of an Actress
as Mrs. Carla Orr
(1939) Private Detective
as Mona Lannon
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1938) Heart of the North
as Joyce MacMillan
(1944) Rationing
as Miss McCue
(1940) This Thing Called Love
as Florence Bertrand
(1942) The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Cleo Arden
(1940) I Want a Divorce
as Wanda Holland
(1940) Tear Gas Squad
as Jerry Sullivan
(1939) No Place to Go
as Gertrude Plummer
(1941) Mercy Island
as Leslie Ramsey
(1939) Waterfront
as Ann Stacey
(1940) King of the Lumberjacks
as Tina Martin Deribault
(1937) Talent Scout
as Blonde on Bus (uncredited)
(1941) Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
as ---
(1939) Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
as Self