| Dorothy Revier | |
| Birth Name: | Doris Valerga[1] |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1904 |
| Birth Place: | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Resting Place: | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 1921 - 1936 |
| Spouse: | Harry Revier (? - 1926) William Pelayo (1950 - 1964) |
Dorothy Revier (born Doris Valerga; April 18, 1904 - November 19, 1993) was an American actress.
Born as Doris Valerga in San Francisco[2] on April 18, 1904,[3] Revier was one of five siblings of the famous Valerga performing family of the Bay Area. Her mother was English and her father was Italian.[3] She was educated in the public schools of Oakland before going to New York City to study classical dancing.
Revier danced with a Russian ballet company on tour, but homesickness brought her back to San Francisco, where she became the featured dancer at Tait's Cafe.[4] She was discovered by a talent agent while working in a cabaret and signed to a film contract by Harry Cohn.[5]
She made her film debut in Life's Greatest Question (1921)[6] and was active throughout the 1920s, playing in The Virgin (1924),[7] The Supreme Test (1923), An Enemy of Men (1925),[8] The Far Cry (1926), Cleopatra (1928),[9] Tanned Legs (1929)[10] and The Iron Mask (1929).
After recovering from two broken arms suffered in a 1930 car accident, she played roles in low-budget films for Columbia Pictures. In 1935 she played the role of a saloon girl in Paramount Pictures' second Hopalong Cassidy film, The Eagle's Brood, working alongside William Boyd. In many films she appeared as a vamp, and she later worked as a free-lance performer in Buck Jones Westerns such as Lovable Liar (1933).[11] The Cowboy and the Kid (1936) was her final film.[12]
Revier was married to director Harry J. Revier, and to commercial artist William Pelayo. Both marriages ended in divorce.
A resident of West Hollywood, Revier died at the age of 89, at the Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center,[13] and was interred at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles area, buried under the simple marker of name and dates, marked with the lone inscription, "Beloved Actress."[14]