Corinne Griffith
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
Film
Thin Ice
Alice Winton
1919
Film
Lily Christine
Lily Christine Summerset
1932
Film
The Menace
Virginia Denton
1918
Film
Three Hours
Madeline Durkin
1927
Film
Island Wives
Elsa Melton
1922
Film
The Stolen Treaty
Irene Mitchell
1917
Film
Single Wives
Betty Jordan
1924
Film
The Climbers
Blanche Sterling
1919
Film
Love Watches
Jacqueline Cartaret
1918
Film
Lilies of the Field
Mildred Harker
1924
Film
Babs
Barbara Marvin
1920
Film
Miss Ambition
Marta
1918
Film
Moral Fibre
Marion Wolcott
1921
Film
Infatuation
Violet Bancroft
1925
Film
Divorce Coupons
Linda Catherton
1922
Film
The Divine Lady
Lady Emma Hart Hamilton
1928
Film
The Single Track
Janette Gildersleeve
1921
Film
The Unknown Quantity
Mary Boyne
1919
Film
Love's Wilderness
Linda Lou Heath
1924
Film
Lilies of the Field
Mildred Harker
1930
Film
The Girl Problem
Erminie Foster
1919
Film
Syncopating Sue
Susan Adams
1926
Film
Black Oxen
Madame Zatianny / Mary Ogden
1923
Film
Classified
Babs Comet
1925
Film
The Adventure Shop
Phyllis Blake
1919
Film
Into Her Kingdom
Grand Duchess Tatiana
1926
Film
Deadline at Eleven
Helen Stevens
1920
Film
The Bramble Bush
Kaly Dial
1919
Film
The Love Doctor
Blanche Hildreth
1917
Film
Through the Wall
Pussy Wimott
1916
Film
I Will Repay
Virginia Rodney
1917
Film
The Garden of Eden
Toni LeBrun
1928
Film
Back Pay
Kitty (as Vivian Oakland)
1930
It Isn't Being Done This Season
Marcia Ventnor
1921
Film
A Girl at Bay
Mary Allen
1919
Film
The Tower of Jewels
Emily Cottrell
1919
Film
Déclassé
Lady Heelen Haden
1925
Film
Paradise Alley
Mrs. Wilson
1962
Film
The Garter Girl
Rosalie Ray
1920
Film
The Lady in Ermine
Mariana Beltrami
1927
Film
Saturday's Children
Bobby Halevy
1929
Film
Six Days
Laline Kingston
1923
Film
The Common Law
Valerie West
1923
Film
Mademoiselle Modiste
Fifi
1926
Film
Prisoners
Riza Riga
1929
Film
The Broadway Bubble
Adrienne Landreth / Drina Lynn
1920
Film
The Cost of High Living
Jack's Sister
1916
The Mystery of Lake Lethe
1917
Film
Outcast
Miriam
1928
Film
The Whisper Market
Erminie North
1920
Film
A Virgin's Sacrifice
Althea Sherrill
1922
Film
Who Goes There?
Karen Girard
1917
Film
The Girl of Today
Leslie Selden
1918
Film
Transgression
Marion Hayward
1917
Film
The Marriage Whirl
Marian Hale
1925
Film
The Clutch of Circumstance
Ruth Lawson
1918
Film
What's Your Reputation Worth?
Cara Deene
1921