Corinne Griffith
Date of birth: 1894-11-21
Place of birth: Texarkana, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Corinne Griffin
Biography
Griffith was born in Texarkana, Texas to John Lewis Griffin and Ambolina (Ambolyn) Ghio. She attended Sacred Heart Convent school in New Orleans and worked as a dancer before she began her acting career. Griffith 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. In 1928, she had the starring role in The Garden of Eden. The next year, in 1929, Griffith received an Academy Award nomination for her role in The Divine Lady. Griffith's first sound film, Lilies of the Field, was released in 1930. Griffith's voice did not record well (The New York Times stated that she "talked through her nose"), and the film was a box office flop. After appearing in one more motion picture, the British film Lily Christine in 1932, she retired from acting. She returned to the screen in 1962 in the low-budget melodrama Paradise Alley, which received scant release.
Movie Credits
The Clutch of Circumstance
1918-08-26
Businessman John Lawson is seriously injured in an accident, his wife Ruth travels from their New En
The Divine Lady
1928-12-26
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
A Virgin's Sacrifice
1922-05-21
Set in “the white-bound heart of Canada that lies within the Arctic Circle,” and concerns a rifle-to
The Garden of Eden
1928-02-04
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carl
Back Pay
1930-06-01
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a
Black Oxen
1923-12-29
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a
The Unknown Quantity
1919-04-14
Mary Boyne, who made shirts at four dollars a week, had no place for love in her life - only despair
Through the Wall
1916-10-02
Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
The Mystery of Lake Lethe
1917-01-15
The Mystery of Lake Lethe was a murky crime short.
Paradise Alley
1962-01-02
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the live
Three Hours
1927-03-05
Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a ne
Lilies of the Field
1924-02-29
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she atte
Lilies of the Field
1930-01-05
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in dis
The Girl of Today
1918-09-23
During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jac
The Stolen Treaty
1917-06-16
At a reception given for the vacationing Prince Zarl of Zorania, secretly the emissary of Zorania se
Transgression
1917-08-20
Hal Page, the weakling brother of Stephen Page, the town mayor, falls in love with Carline Shrefton,
Who Goes There?
1917-11-24
During World War I, Kervyn Guild, an American citizen who was born in Belgium, is captured with othe
Déclassé
1925-04-11
The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treat
Mademoiselle Modiste
1926-03-21
Hiram Bent, impressed with the sales ability of Fifi, opens a fashionable establishment, and exploit
Saturday's Children
1929-03-10
Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in thei
The Love Doctor
1917-10-08
A doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.
The Marriage Whirl
1925-07-19
Marian marries Arthur, a party-loving man, hoping to reform him, but he becomes restless and starts
Classified
1925-10-11
Babs Comet is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper and uses her looks and pos
The Lady in Ermine
1927-01-01
When her husband marches off to war, Mariana is left in charge of the ancestral castle and is thus o
Prisoners
1929-05-18
Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a ca
Lily Christine
1932-03-31
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert H
Syncopating Sue
1926-10-31
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Art
The Common Law
1923-08-30
Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his arist
The Cost of High Living
1916-05-22
The Cost of High Living is a 1916 Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan and Corinne Griffith.
The Adventure Shop
1919-01-06
A society girl looking for thrills, poses as a tough "underworld" character. She is rescued by her w
Infatuation
1925-12-27
Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Vio
Outcast
1928-11-11
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was dire
Six Days
1923-09-09
Laline, a pretty young woman, falls in love with Dion, a young sculptor, but her mother wants her to
The Broadway Bubble
1920-10-01
The story of a young society woman, who, aspiring for a musical comedy career against her husband's
Into Her Kingdom
1926-08-08
In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released
Moral Fibre
1921-09-18
Jared Wolcott, storekeeper in a small country town, lives with his young sister, Marion. He succumbs
Divorce Coupons
1922-07-02
Linda Catherton, a poor small town girl in search of a wealthy suitor, meets Roland Bland, a man of
What's Your Reputation Worth?
1921-03-01
Love's Wilderness
1924-12-14
Worthless French cad Paul L'Estrange leads a young Southern girl, Linda Lou Heath, from the shelter
Single Wives
1924-07-24
As her first wedding anniversary approaches, a young wife begins to believe that her husband doesn't
Island Wives
1922-03-12
Elsa, a young wife living on an isolated South Seas island, is restless, bored and wants to leave. T
The Bramble Bush
1919-08-04
Innocent Kaly Dial comes to New York from the Cumberland Mountains and gets employment at a fashiona
The Tower of Jewels
1919-12-08
Emily Cottrell, one of the most respected members of a large gang of crooks headed by Fraser Grimste
The Whisper Market
1920-09-13
A pair of former blackmailers and opium smugglers, Juliet and George Saltmarsh, have managed to secu
The Girl Problem
1919-03-03
A model by day and a short-story writer by night, Erminie Foster is insulted when novelist Ernest Sa
The Garter Girl
1920-05-03
Vaudeville dancer Rosalie Ray, disgusted by the advances of her admirers, quits the stage and retire
Babs
1920-07-05
Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is suppor
The Single Track
1921-11-13
A damsel-in-distress Western melodrama and a stirring picture of railroad construction and the minin
Thin Ice
1919-05-26
When Alice Winton's brother embezzles funds belonging to his employer, Benjamin Graves, a promoter o
Deadline at Eleven
1920-03-15
When socialite Helen Stevens obtains a job on a New York newspaper, she is met by much derision from
The Climbers
1919-11-08
To keep his social-climbing wife and daughters in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed, wealth
A Girl at Bay
1919-06-28
After Mary Allen drops a blood-stained knife, Judge Robert Craigin's dead body lies next to her. Mar
The Menace
1918-01-21
Owing a twenty-year jail sentence to Dr. Burnell, Morgan returns after serving his term to find his