Corinne Griffith
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.
59 acting credits
Acting · 59
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Infatuation
1925
Saturday's Children
1929
Paradise Alley
1962
Prisoners
1929
Lilies of the Field
1924
Back Pay
1930
The Divine Lady
1928
Into Her Kingdom
1926
Syncopating Sue
1926
Six Days
1923
The Garden of Eden
1928
Déclassé
1925
Outcast
1928
Black Oxen
1923
The Love Doctor
1917
Three Hours
1927
The Broadway Bubble
1920
Deadline at Eleven
1920
The Cost of High Living
1916
The Stolen Treaty
1917
Lily Christine
1932
What's Your Reputation Worth?
1921
Divorce Coupons
1922
Lilies of the Field
1930
The Common Law
1923
Mademoiselle Modiste
1926
Moral Fibre
1921
The Menace
1918
Through the Wall
1916
A Girl at Bay
1919
The Tower of Jewels
1919
Thin Ice
1919
Single Wives
1924
The Lady in Ermine
1927
The Girl of Today
1918
Love Watches
1918
Love's Wilderness
1924
A Virgin's Sacrifice
1922
The Single Track
1921
The Clutch of Circumstance
1918
Miss Ambition
1918
The Marriage Whirl
1925
Classified
1925
The Girl Problem
1919
The Climbers
1919
It Isn't Being Done This Season
1921
The Garter Girl
1920
Transgression
1917
The Adventure Shop
1919
The Unknown Quantity
1919
The Whisper Market
1920
Babs
1920
Island Wives
1922
The Mystery of Lake Lethe
1917
I Will Repay
1917
Who Goes There?
1917
The Bramble Bush
1919