CREDIT: Courtesy family of Dorothy Malone   
       
   Dorothy Malone, star of the big and small screen with "Written on the Wind,"   
   "Basic Instinct" and "Peyton Place," died on Friday morning in Dallas of   
   natural causes. She was 92.   
       
   Working in the Golden Age of Hollywood, the striking blonde actress won an   
   Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in Douglas Sirk's   
   melodrama "Written on the Wind," which she starred in with Rock Hudson, Lauren   
   Bacall and Robert Stack. Among her more notable early roles was the bookshop   
   proprietress in "The Big Sleep" opposite Humphrey Bogart.   
       
   After years of smaller roles, the Oscar helped her secure roles in larger   
   projects like "Too Much, Too Soon," "Man of a Thousand Faces," and "Warlock."   
   She would frequently work with Hudson throughout the 1960s, as she played   
   opposite him twice more in "The Tarnished Angels" and "The Last Sunset."   
       
   After years in the film business, Malone waded into television with a starring   
   role on prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place" from 1964 to 1968. She later   
   revived her Constance MacKenzie character in TV movies based on the series,   
   1977's "Murder in Peyton Place" and 1985's "Peyton Place: The Next   
   Generation." She also appeared in a number of miniseries, including "Rich Man,   
   Poor Man" and "Condominium."   
       
   Malone's last on-screen appearance may be one of her most famous, playing a   
   mother convicted of murdering her family in 1992's "Basic Instinct," alongside   
   Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.   
       
   Originally Dorothy Maloney, the star was born in Chicago but grew up in   
   Dallas, attending Southern Methodist University. She was discovered there by a   
   talent scout while acting in a school play, and soon after was signed to a   
   studio contract.   
       
   Manager Burt Shapiro reported her death.   
       
   She was married and divorced three times, to actor Jacques Bergerac, Robert   
   Tomarkin and Charles Huston Bell. She is survived by two daughters she had   
   with Bergerac, Mimi and Diane.   
       
       
   Regards,   
       
   Roger   
      
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