Corinne Griffith

Actress + Film Producer + Author

Female

Born Nov 21, 1894

Died Jul 13, 1979

Other Names Griffith, Corinne...

Corinne Mae Griffith was an American actress. Dubbed "The Orchid Lady of the Screen", she was one of the most popular film actresses of the 1920s and widely considered the most beautiful actress of the silent screen. Shortly after the advent of sound… Read More

Romance

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Danny Scholl

Married 1965
George Marshall
Married 1936 - 1958
Howard Hughes
Dated 1927
Clark Gable
Dated 1925
Walter Morosco
Married 1924 - 1934
Webster Campbell

Married 1920 - 1923
George Preston Marshall
Married

News + Updates

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Debbie Reynolds On Tcm: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Singing Nun Alt Film Guide (Blog)
Google News - Aug 20, 2011

... there's much to enjoy in Singin' in the Rain, including Reynolds and Donald O'Connor's performances, several great songs from the 1920s, and Jean Hagen's high-pitched mix of Norma Talmadge, (the British) Mabel Poulton, and Corinne Griffith
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Sports Of The Times; Redskins Get Thumbs Up From Snyder
NYTimes - Sep 25, 2000

THE way Daniel Snyder peered down from the Redskin owner's suite at Giants Stadium last night, you expected him to give a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down, the way Roman emperors did in the Coliseum when they pardoned or condemned a gladiator. And after an embarrassing thumbs-down loss to the Cowboys last Monday night, the Redskins earned a thumbs-up
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Where Raunch Met Excess; Demise Of Art Deco Temple Of Less Than High Art
NYTimes - Sep 22, 1998

At the Rialto Theater, ''Romper Room'' and ''Liquid Lips'' were neighbors. No other building so jauntily symbolized the bewildering confluence in Times Square of showmen, con men, impresarios, prelates and hustlers than the Jazz Age jewel box called the Rialto, at ground zero, Broadway and 42d Street. Like the square itself, the Rialto catered to
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Theater Review; A Season Of Horton Foote Begins
NYTimes - Sep 27, 1994

"Talking Pictures," like many of Horton Foote's plays, is set in Harrison, Tex., a hamlet where yes is pronounced "yea-yus," a mixed marriage is one between a Baptist and a Methodist, and going to the movies is considered in some quarters a risky moral undertaking. The year is 1929, and Myra Tolliver, a grass widow with a 14-year-old son to raise,
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1894 Birth Born on November 21, 1894.

TWENTIES

1916 21 Years Old Griffith began her screen career at the Vitagraph Studios in 1916. … Read More

1920 25 Years Old Griffith was married four times. She married actor and frequent co-star Webster Campbell from 1920 to 1923, producer Walter Morosco from 1924 to 1934, and the owner of the Washington Redskins football team George Preston Marshall from 1936 to 1958. … Read More

THIRTIES

1928 33 Years Old In 1928, she had the starring role in The Garden of Eden.

1929 34 Years Old The next year, in 1929, Griffith received an Academy Award nomination for her role in The Divine Lady.

1930 35 Years Old Griffith's first sound film, Lilies of the Field, was released in 1930. … Read More

1932 37 Years Old After appearing in one more motion picture, the British film Lily Christine in 1932, she retired from acting.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1962 67 Years Old She returned to the screen in 1962 in the low-budget melodrama Paradise Alley, which received scant release.

1963 68 Years Old Griffith was one of the few film stars to move successfully into new careers once her stardom had ended. She was an accomplished writer who published eleven books including two best sellers, My Life with The Redskins and the memoir Papa's Delicate Condition, which was made into a 1963 film starring Jackie Gleason about the Ghio and Griffin family. … Read More

1966 71 Years Old In 1966, within a few days, she married and divorced her fourth husband, Broadway actor Danny Scholl (Call Me Mister). … Read More

1974 79 Years Old In 1974, Adele Whitely Fletcher, editor of Photoplay, said Griffith was still claiming that she was her own younger sister. … Read More

1979 85 Years Old On July 13, 1979, Griffith died of heart failure in Santa Monica, California, aged 84. … Read More

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