Gish, Dorothy

Gish, Dorothy

▪ American actress
in full  Dorothy Elizabeth Gish 
born March 11, 1898, Massillon, Ohio, U.S.
died June 4, 1968, Rapallo, Italy
 American actress who, like her sister Lillian (Gish, Lillian), was a major figure in silent films, particularly director D.W. Griffith (Griffith, D W)'s classics.

      Gish grew up in New York City and made her stage debut at age four. She and Lillian formed close friendships with the actress Mary Pickford (Pickford, Mary) (then known as Gladys Mary Smith) during their childhood. Pickford introduced them to Griffith in 1912. Griffith immediately gave them small parts in a series of silent movies, beginning with An Unseen Enemy (1912), and placed them under contract to his studio the next year.

 Dorothy, who was more vivacious than her sister, attracted a following in The Mountain Rat (1914), The Mysterious Shot (1914), and other films. Together, Dorothy and Lillian appeared in several of Griffith's greatest films, including Home, Sweet Home (1914), The Sisters (1914), Hearts of the World (1918), and Orphans of the Storm (1921). In 1920 Dorothy appeared in Remodeling Her Husband, which was directed by Lillian. Two years later they both left Griffith, Dorothy going to Paramount Studios and Lillian to the Tiffany Company and later to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dorothy's subsequent films include Romola (1924), in which Lillian also appeared; Clothes Make the Pirate (1925); and two movies made in England, Nell Gwyn (1926) and Madame Pompadour (1927).

      Gish returned to the stage with the rise of talking pictures. She enjoyed a number of Broadway and London successes in Young Love (1928), The Inspector General (1930), By Your Leave (1934), Missouri Legend (1938), Life with Father (1940), Magnificent Yankee (1946), The Man (1950), and other plays. She continued to appear from time to time in films, notably Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944). Her last performances were in a 1956 Broadway revival of Life with Father and in the film The Cardinal (1963).

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