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Profile of Corinne Griffith on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Corinne Griffith  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 24th November 1894
   
Place of Birth: Texarkana, Texas, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
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Corinne Griffith was an actress in both silent film and talking pictures.

Corinne Griffith was born in Texarkana, Texas on November 24th, 1894. She was educated in a convent school in New Orleans. Corinne began her screen career at the Vitagraph Studios in 1916. She later moved to First National, where she became one of their most popular stars. The nickname the studios gave her in her heyday was "The Orchid Lady of the Screen". Films of special note for Corinne were "Black Oxen" (1924), "DeClassée" (1925 - in which a young extra named Clark Gable appeared), and "The Garden Of Eden" (1928 - surviving). Corinne received an [[Academy Award nomination for her role in "The Divine Lady" (1929), in which she played Emma Hart, the English Lady Hamilton. This film has recently been restored. Her last Hollywood film was released in 1930; she never transitioned well to the sound era. After appearing in one more motion picture, an English film in 1932, Corinne retired from the screen and invested her film money in real estate ventures, which made her a very rich woman. Corinne was married four times, and in 1966 she divorced her fourth husband, Broadway actor Danny "Call Me Mister" Scholl. They had only been married a few days. In court she testified that she was not Corinne Griffith. She claimed that she was the actresses' younger (by twenty years) sister who had taken her place upon the famous sister's death. Contradicting testimony by the actresses' Betty Blythe and Claire Windsor, who had both known her since the twenties, did not shake her story. In 1974 Adele Whitely Fletcher, editor of Photoplay, said Corinne was still claiming that she was her own younger sister. Her other marriages were to actor Webster Campbell (1920-1923), producer Walter Morosco (1924-1934) and to the owner of the Washington Redskins football team George Preston Marshall (1936-1958). She was an accomplished writer who published over a dozen books including two best sellers. Papa's Delicate Condition was made into a movie starring Jackie Gleason.At the time of her death from heart failure, on July 13th, 1979, her personal estate was worth over one hundred and fifty million dollars.


Griffith has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street.

Filmography

A lobby card for The Garden of Eden (1928)
  • Paradise Alley (1962) .... Mrs. Wilson

... aka Stars in the Back Yard

  • Lily Christine (1932) .... Lily Christine Summerset
  • Back Pay (1930) .... Hester Bevins
  • Lilies of the Field (1930) .... Mildred Harker
  • Prisoners (1929) .... Riza Riga
  • The Divine Lady (1929) .... Emma Hart (Lady Hamilton)
  • Saturday's Children (1929) .... Bobby Halevy
  • Outcast (1928) .... Miriam
  • The Garden of Eden (1928) .... Toni LeBrun
  • Three Hours (1927) .... Madeline Durkin
  • The Lady in Ermine (1927) .... Mariana Beltrami
  • Syncopating Sue (1926) .... Susan Adams
  • Into Her Kingdom (1926) .... Grand Duchess Tatiana (at 12 and 20)
  • Mademoiselle Modiste (1926) .... Fifi
  • Infatuation (1925) .... Violet Bancroft
  • Classified (1925) .... Babs Comet
  • The Marriage Whirl (1925) .... Marian Hale

... aka Modern Madness (UK)

  • Declassée (1925) .... Lady Heelen Haden

... aka The Social Exile

  • Love's Wilderness (1924) .... Linda Lou Heath
  • Single Wives (1924) .... Betty Jordan
  • Lilies of the Field (1924) .... Mildred Harker
  • Black Oxen (1923) .... Madame Zatianny/Mary Ogden
  • Six Days (1923) .... Laline Kingston
  • The Common Law (1923) .... Valerie West
  • Divorce Coupons (1922) .... Linda Catherton
  • A Virgin's Sacrifice (1922) .... Althea Sherrill

... aka A Woman's Sacrifice

  • Island Wives (1922) .... Elsa Melton
  • Received Payment (1922) .... Celia Hughes
  • The Single Track (1921) .... Janette Gildersleeve
  • Moral Fibre (1921) .... Marion Wolcott
  • What's Your Reputation Worth? (1921) .... Cara Deene
  • It Isn't Being Done This Season (1921) .... Marcia Ventnor
  • The Broadway Bubble (1920) .... Adrienne Landreth/Drina Lynn
  • The Whisper Market (1920) .... Erminie North
  • Babs (1920) .... Barbara Marvin

... aka Bab's Candidate

  • The Garter Girl (1920) .... Rosalie Ray
  • Deadline at Eleven (1920) .... Helen Stevens
  • Human Collateral (1920) .... Patricia Langdon
  • The Tower of Jewels (1920) .... Emily Cottrell
  • The Climbers (1919) .... Blanche Sterling
  • The Bramble Bush (1919) .... Kaly Dial
  • A Girl at Bay (1919) .... Mary Allen
  • Thin Ice (1919) .... Alice Winton
  • The Unknown Quantity (1919) .... Mary Boyne
  • The Girl Problem (1919) .... Erminie Foster
  • The Adventure Shop (1919) .... Phyllis Blake
  • Miss Ambition (1918) .... Marta
  • The Girl of Today (1918) .... Leslie Selden
  • The Clutch of Circumstance (1918) .... Ruth Lawson
  • Love Watches (1918) .... Jacqueline Cartaret
  • The Menace (1918) .... Virginia Denton
  • Who Goes There? (1917) .... Karen Girard
  • I Will Repay (1917) .... Virginia Rodney
  • The Love Doctor (1917) .... Blanche Hildreth
  • Transgression (1917) .... Marion Hayward
  • The Stolen Treaty (1917) .... Irene Mitchell
  • The Last Man (1916) .... Lorna
  • Through the Wall (1916) .... Pussy Wimott
  • A Fool and His Friend (1916)
  • The Yellow Girl (1916) .... Corinne
  • The Waters of Lethe (1916)
  • Ashes (1916/II)
  • The Cost of High Living (1916)
  • Bitter Sweet (1916)
  • When Hubby Forgot (1916)

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