Gibson, Dorothy (1889–1946)
Gibson, Dorothy (1889–1946)
American silent-film actress. Born May 17, 1889, in Hoboken, New Jersey; died Feb 17, 1946, in Paris, France; dau. of Leonard and Pauline Gibson; m. Jules Brulatour (executive at Eclair), 1914 (div. 1916).
Began career as a Harrison Fisher model; became a leading lady of the French-American Eclair Moving Picture Company, starring in Hands Across the Sea (1911), among many others; with her mother, survived the sinking of the Titanic (1911); starred in the silent film Saved from the Titanic, a month after her rescue, wearing the same dress she'd worn on the night of the disaster.
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