Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Gish (actually: Dorothy Elizabeth Gish, born March 11, 1898 in Massillon, Ohio; † June 4, 1968 in Rapallo, Italy ) was an American actress and the sister of actress Lillian Gish.
Life
Lillian and Dorothy Gish were from her mother, who also worked as an actress, housed early in the film. In 1912 she got at the Biograph Company in New York a job and debuted together in DW Griffiths at Unseen Enemy. It belonged to 1914 regular cast member of the studio to Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron, Kate Bruce, Mae Marsh and others. After 1914 Gish worked for various studios and often came here with her as an actress very popular sister in Griffiths films. Among her best performances, the representation of a blind man in Griffiths Orphans of the Storm is. After this film she ended the collaboration with Griffith and played only once on the side of Lillian in Romola (1924 ), directed by Henry King. In 1926 she went to Britain and took over the title role in Nell Gwynne by Herbert Wilcox. She starred in three other films of this director and retired after largely from the film business and worked as a stage actress in England. Occasionally, she returned to the screen, so in 1944 as the mother of Gayle Russell in Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, the film adaptation of the memoirs of actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, daughter of the famous Broadway actor Otis Skinner.