No Italian, she, but a Pennsylvania girl with a very American name (Marie Katherine Stewart). Because she looked, in the words of a contemporary critic, “like a porcelain doll” with her flawless complexion, Marie Doro was most often cast as a minor pretty-girly-type, although it should be known that offstage and -screen she had a formidable intellect.
Here’s an expertly-colorized pic of her which I think shows what she might have looked like in real life:
Exquisite.
Perhaps because of her intellect, she got sick of Hollywood and all its nonsense, and retired to become something of a religious recluse. In earlier times, she might have become a nun.
But the saddest of all is that almost all — perhaps indeed all — of her movies have been lost.