Corinne Griffith

Corinne Griffith ( * November 24, 1896 in Texarkana, Texas, † 13 July 1979 in New York City, New York ) was an American actress. She was one of the biggest stars of the silent film era and is known under the title The Orchid Lady.

Life

Corinne Griffith was educated in a convent in New Orleans. She signed in 1916 a studio contract with Vitagraph and turned quite a few movies that made ​​it a famous movie star. She moved in 1923 to First National, which they announced since then as The Orchid Lady or The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. Similar to later Hedy Lamarr familiar Corinne Griffith on their looks rather than her dramatic talent. Her films were mostly romantic melodramas and comedies salon. The actress lived quietly and without much effort in a rented property. In contrast to her ethereal canvas Image Griffith negotiated each of their contracts personally and also supervised the installation of their high salaries itself early as the middle of the decade was it as the richest woman beside Mary Pickford.

Although Griffith appeared in several films with sound, but their popularity waned quickly then. First National paid the actress the mid 1930s a severance payment of $ 250,000 to terminate their contract prematurely with the studio. Griffith turned even a movie in England and moved in 1932 to private life, where she focused on the writing. One of her many books she had published her biography Papa's Delicate Condition. The book was made ​​into a film in 1962 by George Marshall. In addition, she wrote the words of Hail to the Redskins, the official anthem of the Washington Redskins, with their owner George Preston Marshall she was married from 1936 to 1958. She described the experiences around the team in another best-seller, My Life with the Redskins.

The mid-1960s appeared the name of Griffith in the headlines again on, as if to let the short-term marriage with 25 years younger Broadway actor Danny Scholl cancel before the court. In the process, she testified that she was at least 20 years younger sister of the long-dead Corinne Griffith in reality. Several colleagues from the silent era, including Lois Wilson and Betty Blythe, however, were able to demonstrate in the course of the hearing that it would be clear to the real Corinne Griffith with the applicant.

Corinne Griffith left at her death a fortune of about $ 150 million. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, height 1560 Wine Street, recalls the actress.

Filmography

Involved as a producer

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