Corinne Griffith

Corinne Griffith

Born: November 21, 1894
Died: July 13, 1979
in Texarkana, Texas, USA
​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.

Movies for Corinne Griffith...

Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Paradise Alley
Title: Paradise Alley
Character: Mrs. Wilson
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: Movie
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of Hollywood magic!
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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Lily Christine
Title: Lily Christine
Character: Lily Christine Summerset
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
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Back Pay
Title: Back Pay
Character: Kitty (as Vivian Oakland)
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Mildred Harker
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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Prisoners
Title: Prisoners
Character: Riza Riga
Released: May 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Bobby Halevy
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
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The Divine Lady
Title: The Divine Lady
Character: Lady Emma Hart Hamilton
Released: December 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Miriam
Released: November 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.
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The Garden of Eden
Title: The Garden of Eden
Character: Toni LeBrun
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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Three Hours
Title: Three Hours
Character: Madeline Durkin
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay, who threatens to turn her over to the police -- until he hears Madeline's woeful tale of her cruel, possessive husband.
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The Lady in Ermine
Title: The Lady in Ermine
Character: Mariana Beltrami
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
When her husband marches off to war, Mariana is left in charge of the ancestral castle and is thus on hand when an invading Austrian regiment makes the castle its headquarters.
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Syncopating Sue
Title: Syncopating Sue
Character: Susan Adams
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.
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Into Her Kingdom
Title: Into Her Kingdom
Character: Grand Duchess Tatiana
Released: August 8, 1926
Type: Movie
In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases.
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Mademoiselle Modiste
Title: Mademoiselle Modiste
Character: Fifi
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Robert Z. Leonard directed Griffith in a story based on a popular 1905 Victor Herbert operetta on Broadway, Mlle. Modiste, with a libretto by Henry Martyn Blossom, which was similar to the MGM film The Merry Widow. The film is now considered a lost film. The story was refilmed in 1930 as the talkie Kiss Me Again.
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Infatuation
Title: Infatuation
Character: Violet Bancroft
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little at a dinner party. The two marry, and before long Viola has relocated to Egypt with her husband. Soon bored by her hothouse existence, Viola succumbs to the attentions of young British attache Ronald Perry.
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Classified
Title: Classified
Character: Babs Comet
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Babs Comet is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper and uses her looks and position to get a husband.
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The Marriage Whirl
Title: The Marriage Whirl
Released: July 19, 1925
Type: Movie
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Déclassé
Title: Déclassé
Character: Lady Heelen Haden
Released: April 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treats her shamefully. She falls in love with Ned Thayer, a young American, but refuses to divorce her husband because of the attendant scandal and disgrace. Sir Bruce gains possession of a love letter written to Ned by Lady Helen and divorces her. Ned goes to Africa, and Lady Helen comes to the United States, where she encounters Rudolph Solomon, an art collector who wants her to become his mistress. The noblewoman at first refuses, but when her money runs out, she agrees to the proposal and attends a party at his home. Ned, who has learned of the divorce, comes looking for Helen and meets her at Solomon's party. Lady Helen is so humiliated and ashamed that she rushes from the house and throws herself in front of an automobile.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Mildred Harker
Released: February 29, 1924
Type: Movie
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
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Black Oxen
Title: Black Oxen
Character: Madame Zatianny / Mary Ogden
Released: December 29, 1923
Type: Movie
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
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Six Days
Title: Six Days
Character: Laline Kingston
Released: September 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Laline, a pretty young woman, falls in love with Dion, a young sculptor, but her mother wants her to marry a wealthy Englishman. Laline and Dion are visiting the gravesite of Laline's brother with a priest, and a cave-in traps the three in some long-abandoned underground barracks.
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The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Valerie West
Released: August 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.
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A Virgin's Sacrifice
Title: A Virgin's Sacrifice
Character: Althea Sherrill
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Broadway Bubble
Title: The Broadway Bubble
Character: Adrienne Landreth / Drina Lynn
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The story of a young society woman, who, aspiring for a musical comedy career against her husband's wishes, places her twin sister in her home to enact her part as a wife, while she played her role behind the footlights.
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The Unknown Quantity
Title: The Unknown Quantity
Character: Mary Boyne
Released: April 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Mary Boyne, who made shirts at four dollars a week, had no place for love in her life - only despair and hate for the son of the man who had plunged her family into deepest distress. Peter Kenwitz loved Mary, but because he was a mathematician and a pessimist by trade, his love was as hopeless as her chance for happiness.
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The Adventure Shop
Title: The Adventure Shop
Character: Phyllis Blake
Released: January 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A society girl looking for thrills, poses as a tough "underworld" character. She is rescued by her wealthy husband as Josephus Potts, Jr, who proves he's not the tea-and-crumpets type she'd assumed him to be.
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The Girl of Today
Title: The Girl of Today
Character: Leslie Selden
Released: September 23, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft, and Dr. Wolff, a Danish scientist who, in reality, is a German agent. When Jack learns that Wolff is masterminding a plot to bomb several munitions factories and destroy the water system in New York City, he goes to the spy's home and confronts him.
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The Clutch of Circumstance
Title: The Clutch of Circumstance
Character: Ruth Lawson
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Businessman John Lawson is seriously injured in an accident, his wife Ruth travels from their New England village to New York to find a job that will support them both. Ruth works in a sweatshop at first, but then makes it big on Broadway.
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Who Goes There?
Title: Who Goes There?
Character: Karen Girard
Released: November 24, 1917
Type: Movie
During World War I, Kervyn Guild, an American citizen who was born in Belgium, is captured with other Belgian refugees by the Germans. Brought before the commanding officer, General Von Reiter, Guild is offered his own freedom as well as that of the other refugees if he goes to London and returns with the officer's daughter, Karen Girard, who actually is his mistress.
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The Love Doctor
Title: The Love Doctor
Character: Blanche Hildreth
Released: October 8, 1917
Type: Movie
A doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.
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Transgression
Title: Transgression
Character: Marion Hayward
Released: August 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Hal Page, the weakling brother of Stephen Page, the town mayor, falls in love with Carline Shrefton, who throws over Burt Staley to entangle Hal in her self-serving schemes. Furious over her abrupt departure, Staley shows up at Carline's, and a jealous fight with Hal ensues in which Staley is shot and killed with Carline's gun. After Hal confesses to the deed, Stephen quietly sends him off to Spain. One year later, Stephen announces his engagement to Marion Hayward, the daughter of the district attorney, who is pressing charges against James Reed, a corrupt politician and Carline's new husband. To save Reed, Carline threatens Stephen with exposure, but he refuses to bend to her demands. Just days before Carline is to reveal her story about Staley, Hal appears and confesses to Hayward that Carline is the true killer.
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The Stolen Treaty
Title: The Stolen Treaty
Character: Irene Mitchell
Released: June 16, 1917
Type: Movie
At a reception given for the vacationing Prince Zarl of Zorania, secretly the emissary of Zorania set on negotiating a treaty with the United States, Geoffrey Wynne, apparently a society dandy, but in reality a secret service agent, meets the prince. During the reception, Wynne is summoned to Washington where he learns that the treaty has been stolen and is being held for $15,000,000 ransom. Discovering that one of the thieves is an Italian named Farnelli, Wynne enlists the aid of his fiancée, Irene Mitchell, in apprehending the thief. Irene meets the Italian who offers to accompany her to New York. En route, Wynne overtakes them, chloroforms Farnelli and rips off his disguise to reveal Prince Zarl. Zarl then admits that he has stolen the treaty in order to cover his gambling debts.
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Title: The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Released: January 15, 1917
Type: Movie
The Mystery of Lake Lethe is a 1917 silent film
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Through the Wall
Title: Through the Wall
Character: Pussy Wimott
Released: October 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
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The Cost of High Living
Title: The Cost of High Living
Character: Jack's Sister
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan & Corinne Griffith about The Cost of High Living.