Trivia

Mother of Dorothy Hyson.

Biography in: "American National Biography." Supplement 1, pp. 160-161. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Grandmother of Jenny Quayle.

Mother-in-law of Anthony Quayle.

Ex-mother-in-law of Robert Douglas.

As for her film career, Dickson starred in a few silent films, including Eastward Ho! (1919) and Paying the Piper (1921).

During her early days on the London stage, Dickson was introduced to another future celebrity (as well as centenarian), whose name was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later the Queen Mother. The two became close friends and their friendship lasted until Dickson's death at age 102.

In 1922, she starred in The Cabaret Girl.

In 2006, Angus McBean's photograph of Dorothy Dickson was used on the poster for an exhibition of his photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, as well as on the cover of the accompanying book.

She was a member of the Ziegfeld Follies and made many appearances in New York and abroad.

Her daughter was the actress Dorothy Hyson, who was married to Sir Anthony Quayle. Dorothy Hyson Quayle died, aged 81, one year after her mother's death at age 102.

During WWII she was involved in organising the London version of Stage Door Canteen.

In 1936, she co-starred with Ivor Novello in his Careless Rapture and, in 1937, in his Crest of the Wave.

Dickson is known mostly for her rendition of the Jerome Kern song "Look for the Silver Lining".

Dorothy Dickson was an American-born, London-based theater actress and singer.