--- description: Oscar-winning actress Dorothy Malone was just days away from her 94th birthday title: Dorothy Malone of 'Peyton Place' Dies at 93 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt432dfe44dab53827/6988f8eadb2987839c25e791/dorothy-malone-peyton-place-dies.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [remembrances](/tag/remembrances/) ## remembrances Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dorothy Malone of 'Peyton Place' Dies at 93 by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 20, 2018 9:02 PM CUT  Promotional shot of actress Dorothy Malone, as she appears in the movie 'Quantez', 1956. Promotional shot of actress Dorothy Malone, as she appears in the movie 'Quantez', 1956.Photo by Archive Photos—Getty Images by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 20, 2018 9:02 PM CUT Oscar-winning actress Dorothy Malone died at the age of 93 on Friday, 11 days before her 94th birthday. Malone’s daughter Mimi Vanderstraaten said she died of natural causes in an [assisted living center](http://time.com/money/4406471/4-ways-to-ease-the-search-for-assisted-living/ "undefined") in her hometown of Dallas, [the Los Angeles _Times_ reported](http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dorothy-malone-20180120-story.html "undefined"). Malone won an Oscar for best supporting actress in at the 1956 [Academy Awards](http://time.com/4780776/jimmy-kimmel-2018-academy-awards-host/ "undefined") for her portrayal of Marylee Hadley in “Written on the Wind” and was later cast in ABC’s primetime soap opera “Peyton Place.” “At the time, doing television was considered professional death. However, I knew the series was going to be good, and I didn’t have to prove myself as a star,” Malone said in 1981, the Los Angeles _Times_ reported. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5111394/dorothy-malone-peyton-place-dies-93/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5111394/dorothy-malone-peyton-place-dies-93/"},"headline":"Dorothy Malone of 'Peyton Place' Dies at 93","datePublished":"2018-01-20T21:02:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:57:08.645Z","description":"The Oscar-winning actress was just days away from her 94th birthday","url":"https://time.com/5111394/dorothy-malone-peyton-place-dies-93/","keywords":["remembrances","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt432dfe44dab53827/6988f8eadb2987839c25e791/dorothy-malone-peyton-place-dies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt432dfe44dab53827/6988f8eadb2987839c25e791/dorothy-malone-peyton-place-dies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Quantez","caption":"Quantez","creditText":"Photo by Archive Photos—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrances/","name":"remembrances"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5111394/dorothy-malone-peyton-place-dies-93/","name":"Dorothy Malone of 'Peyton Place' Dies at 93"}}]}] ```