Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello fascinates me as a true relic of a vanished art form. Being crowned 'The Goddess of the Silent Screen' by John Barrymore tells you how luminous she must have been before sound changed everything. What I keep coming back to is the family thread running through her: mother of John Drew Barrymore, grandmother of Drew Barrymore. That lineage makes her feel less like a closed chapter and more like the root of a Hollywood dynasty. Her star on the Walk of Fame is a tidy marker, but I think her real legacy is genetic and cultural, passed down through three generations of performers I still watch today.

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Name (English)

Dolores Costello

Name (Japanese)

ドロレス・コステロ

Reading

どろれす・こすてろ

Born

September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979

Origin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores%20Costello
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155279

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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