Oscar winner Dorothy Malone dead at 92

Oscar winner Dorothy Malone has died at the age of 92.
The Peyton Place star, who picked up an Academy Award for her role in 1956’s Written on the Wind, died on Friday morning (19Jan18) in Dallas, Texas.
Flowers were placed on her Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Friday evening to mark her passing.
A dark-haired beauty, whose career in Hollywood took off when she became a platinum blonde in the mid-1950s, Dorothy also appeared in Man of a Thousand Faces as horror icon Lon Chaney’s first wife, Too Much, Too Soon, and Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin’s comedy Artists and Models.
She also had a cameo in 1992’s Basic Instinct as a murderess.
But she was perhaps best known for her role as Constance MacKenzie on TV drama Peyton Place in the mid-1960s.
Her daughter on the show was Mia Farrow.
Malone settled with 20th Century Fox executives for over $1.5 million (GBP1 million), when her character was written out of the series in 1968, and she returned to the franchise for 1977 TV movie Murder in Peyton Place.
Her film credits also include The Tarnished Angels, Tip on a Dead Jockey, Quantez, The Last Sunset, Janie Gets Married, One Sunday Afternoon, South of St. Louis, Young at Heart, Sincerely Yours, Warlock, and Winter Kills.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Malone found success as a model in Dallas.
She made her movie debut in director Howard Hawks’ detective thriller The Big Sleep.
She was married to dancer Ginger Rogers’ former husband Jacques Bergerac and motel executive Charles Huston Bell.
Her month-long marriage to businessman Robert Tomarkin in 1969 was annulled.