Dorothy Gish
Birthday: 1898-03-09
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
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A Cure for Suffragettes
Caroline Spankhurst and her suffragette brigade conclude to stop at nothing, so in their dauntless e...
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The Cardinal
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...
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Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — ...
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Orphans of the Storm
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as siste...
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The Country Flapper
Country girl Jolanda has lost her boyfriend, Nathaniel Huggins, to a "flapper" from the city. Joland...
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Nobody Home
A young woman is so superstitious that she cannot make a move or a decision without the approval of ...
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Romola
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as...
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Two Daughters of Eve
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story ...
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A Cry for Help
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and tr...
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Oil and Water
A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their i...
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Broken Ways
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After se...
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Just Gold
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth ch...
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The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pay...
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My Hero
Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite dou...
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Red Hicks Defies the World
Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but h...
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The City Beautiful
The country boy, despite the advice of a fellow-townsman, goes to the city, where, after an encounte...
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Down the Hill to Creditville
Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie...
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An Unseen Enemy
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert s...
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Judith of Bethulia
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Je...
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Her Father's Silent Partner
After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. Hi...
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Gretchen the Greenhorn
Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who ha...
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The New York Hat
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli...
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The Perfidy of Mary
Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic ag...
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Pa Says
First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because...
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The Suffragette Minstrels
Two wives of Jenksville at least did not intend their husbands should be corrupted by the arrival of...
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Centennial Summer
In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepar...
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The House of Discord
In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of ...
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The Painted Lady
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice...
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So Near, Yet So Far
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles— namely shyness, and the temerity of other suito...
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The Burglar’s Dilemma
In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young b...
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Home, Sweet Home
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot...
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Hearts of the World
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is s...
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Arms and the Gringo
Romantic political drama set in Mexico that costarred Dorothy Gish and Wallace Reid....
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Fury
Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. B...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts ...
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The Bright Shawl
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves....
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Boots
Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, ad...
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Her Mother's Oath
The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose...
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The Lady in Black
Behold in this film the villain up to his dirty work again, but if you watch the persistent young he...
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The Widow's Kids
In spite of their oversupply of energy, their Pa-to-be just doted on the kids. The fascinating trave...
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The Reformers
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that ...
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Papa's Baby
To be a fond and devoted parent, and to be unable to play with the heaven of your heart is indeed a ...
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By Man's Law
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her j...
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Her Old Teacher
All her life the old teacher had been smoothing over the rough places, but when the great need came ...
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Little Miss Rebellion
The Grand Duchess Marie Louise is the beautiful young ruler of Molvania. She is a fun-loving girl wh...
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A Fair Rebel
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates a...
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The Different Man
Francelia Billington and Dorothy Gish battle outlaw Ralph Lewis out on the range with assistance fro...
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The Floor Above
English sleuths Grace Burton and Stephen Pryde are in love, but when Stephen inherits wealth and a t...
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Silent Sandy
Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry he...
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The Wife
A story of duplicity, ambition and misunderstandings when four peoples lives become intertwined in a...
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The Newer Woman
There is, at once, quite a change in Dot and her sweetheart Robert plainly doesn't like it. After a ...
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Their First Acquaintance
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the g...
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The Painted Lady
Jess, a country girl, leaves home when her sister tries to boss her. Later she secures employment in...
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Her Mother's Necklace
Bessie's father is a widower contemplating remarriage to widow Irene Hunt but Bessie jealously objec...
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The Tavern of Tragedy
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he ab...
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Almost a Wild Man
Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. ...
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His Mother's Son
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the...
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A Lesson in Mechanics
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merr...
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The Better Way
Sunbeam's father is sent to prison, and on his release promises to remain honest. He secures a job a...
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Back to the Kitchen
The ranchman's daughter is in love with Jack of the Rancho and becomes engaged to him, but Pa comes ...
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Sands of Fate
Society man Arthur Lee is in love with society belle Helen Robinson, who is also admired by James Ho...
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The Warning
Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety o...
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The Availing Prayer
William Rock, assistant cashier in a business concern, has a sick daughter. The doctor urges that sh...
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The Saving Grace
Molly Kite, the neglected child of a drunken father, rouses the sympathy of the minister, Mr. Shipto...
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His Lesson
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his cha...
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The Hope Chest
Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manuf...
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes f...
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How Hazel Got Even
Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by...
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The Lost Lord Lowell
Molly, a slavey in a New York boarding house, is in love with Herbert, the butler at the house next ...
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Minerva's Mission
Minerva comes home from school filled with the idea that she has a great mission in life. All societ...
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The Hun Within
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son i...
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Out of Bondage
Jim McRae and his pal, Clancy, two crooks, perform many robberies and divide the loot equally. Clanc...
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Her Grandparents
Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a count...
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The Mountain Girl
In a primitive log cabin buried among the rugged pines deep in the California mountains lives the Mo...
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The Little Catamount
Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of...
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Bred in the Bone
Harvy, the heavy, and Bella, the ingenue, of a cheap theatrical company are encumbered with an infan...
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Remodeling Her Husband
After she marries Jack Valentine, Janie Wakefield discovers that her husband's reputation as a flirt...
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Her Mother's Daughter
Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she ...
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Jordan Is a Hard Road
A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunit...
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Little Meena's Romance
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of ...
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Peppy Polly
Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the ...
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I'll Get Him Yet
A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealt...
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Nugget Nell
Big Hearted Jim, the sheriff, loves the tomboyish Nugget Nell ( Dorothy Gish ), who runs a hash hous...
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Turning the Tables
Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris's fortun...
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Mary Ellen Comes to Town
A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers....
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Nell Gwyn
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's hom...
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Clothes Make the Pirate
A disgruntled 18th century Bostonian who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and pl...
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Battling Jane
Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, h...
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Old Heidelberg
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lo...
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The Whistle at Eaton Falls
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of hi...
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Night Life of New York
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald,...
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The Adopted Brother
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betraye...
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated ...
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Liberty Belles
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bamb...
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Madame Pompadour
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard....
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Her Official Fathers
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish....
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The Beautiful City
For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brothe...
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The Informer
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his broth...
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My Baby
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the onl...
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Atta Boy's Last Race
Young Lois Brandon is about to have her home foreclosed if she doesn't come up with some money. She ...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of...
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Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. A...
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Betty of Greystone
After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been...
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The Little Yank
Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a ...
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The Lady and the Mouse
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if ...
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Flying Pat
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a differe...
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The Sisters
May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Caro...
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The Blue or the Gray
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern gir...
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Those Little Flowers
Quite harmless in themselves, but when Mrs. Ronald G. Saunders saw her faithless lord purchasing the...
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Victorine
Dottie gets a job in a small show as "side kick" of a famous knife thrower. The "Angel" is a nice bo...
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The Ghost in the Garret
Framed for stealing some pearls while staying at the country home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs...
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Harvest
A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those o...
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The Children of the Feud
Mountaineer Pap Clayton has promised his daughter Sairy Ann (Dorothy Gish) to his cousin Jed Martin,...
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Susan Rocks the Boat
Susan, a pretty society girl, bored with her lot in life, reads and decides to use her time and mone...
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