English: Publicity photo of Dorothy Mackaill from Stars of the Photoplay. Dorothy Mackaill began her professional career as a dancing teacher, at the age of ten, in her father's dancing academy at Hull, England. At sixteen she was leader of two numbers in "Joybells" at the London Hippodrome, and at seventeen a beauty with the Ziegfeld "Follies." During her early screen career in this country she played in "Torchy" comedies, in "The Lotus Eaters," with John Barrymore and in "Mighty Lak' a Rose." Born in Hull, England, in 1903, and educated there and in London. Has blonde hair and hazel eyes, weighs 121 pounds, and is five feet, four inches tall. Unmarried.