Corinne Griffith

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1894-11-21

Deathday 1979-07-13 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Texarkana, Texas, USA

Also Known As Corinne Griffin

Corinne Griffith

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.

Known For

Actor

1962
Paradise Alley

as Mrs. Wilson

1932
Lily Christine

as Lily Christine Summerset

1930
Back Pay

as Kitty (as Vivian Oakland)

1930
Lilies of the Field

as Mildred Harker

1929
Prisoners

as Riza Riga

1929
Saturday's Children

as Bobby Halevy

1928
The Divine Lady

as Lady Emma Hart Hamilton

1928
Outcast

as Miriam

1928
The Garden of Eden

as Toni LeBrun

1927
Three Hours

as Madeline Durkin

1927
The Lady in Ermine

as Mariana Beltrami

1926
Syncopating Sue

as Susan Adams

1926
Into Her Kingdom

as Grand Duchess Tatiana

1925
Infatuation

as Violet Bancroft

1925
Classified

as Babs Comet

1925
Déclassé

as Lady Heelen Haden

1924
Lilies of the Field

as Mildred Harker

1923
Black Oxen

as Madame Zatianny / Mary Ogden

1923
Six Days

as Laline Kingston

1923
The Common Law

as Valerie West

1922
A Virgin's Sacrifice

as Althea Sherrill

1921
Moral Fibre

as Marion Wolcott

1920
The Broadway Bubble

as Adrienne Landreth / Drina Lynn

1919
The Unknown Quantity

as Mary Boyne

1919
The Adventure Shop

as Phyllis Blake

1918
The Girl of Today

as Leslie Selden

1918
1917
Who Goes There?

as Karen Girard

1917
The Love Doctor

as Blanche Hildreth

1917
Transgression

as Marion Hayward

1917
The Stolen Treaty

as Irene Mitchell

1916
Through the Wall

as Pussy Wimott

1916
The Cost of High Living

as Jack's Sister

Producer

1927
Three Hours

as Executive Producer

1926
Into Her Kingdom

as Executive Producer

1925
Infatuation

as Executive Producer

1925
The Marriage Whirl

as Executive Producer

1925
Classified

as Producer

Writer

1963