Corinne Griffith
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Texarkana, Texas, USA
Birthday: November 21, 1894
Deathday: July 13, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Clutch of Circumstance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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The Divine Lady
Overview: Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-26
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A Virgin's Sacrifice
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-21
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The Garden of Eden
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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Back Pay
Overview: Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Black Oxen
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-29
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The Unknown Quantity
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-14
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Through the Wall
Overview: Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Overview: The Mystery of Lake Lethe is a 1917 silent film
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-15
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-29
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Three Hours
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-05
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Paradise Alley
Overview: 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!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-02
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The Girl of Today
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-23
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Transgression
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-20
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The Stolen Treaty
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-16
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Who Goes There?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-24
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Déclassé
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-11
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Mademoiselle Modiste
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-21
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Saturday's Children
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-10
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The Love Doctor
Overview: A doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-08
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The Marriage Whirl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-19
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Classified
Overview: Babs Comet is employed by the classified ad department of the daily paper and uses her looks and position to get a husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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The Lady in Ermine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Prisoners
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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Lily Christine
Overview: Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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Syncopating Sue
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-31
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The Common Law
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-30
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The Cost of High Living
Overview: The Cost of High Living is a 1916 Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan and Corinne Griffith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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The Adventure Shop
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-06
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Infatuation
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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Outcast
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-11
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Six Days
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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The Broadway Bubble
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-01
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Into Her Kingdom
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-08
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Moral Fibre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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Divorce Coupons
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-02
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What's Your Reputation Worth?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-01
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