Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Gish was born on Mar 11, 1898 in USA. Dorothy Gish's big-screen debut came with The Painted Lady directed by D.W. Griffith in 1912. Dorothy Gish is known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ directed by Fred Niblo, Ramon Novarro stars as Ben-Hur and Francis X. Bushman as Messala. The most recent award Dorothy Gish achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Dorothy Gish plays is The Cardinal which will be released on Dec 12, 1963.

Dorothy Gish was born into a broken family where her restless father James Lee Gish was frequently absent. Mary Robinson McConnell a.k.a. Mary Gish, her mother, had entered into acting to make money to support the family. As soon as Dorothy and her sister Lillian Gish were old enough, they became part of the act. To supplement their income, the two sisters also posed for pictures and acted in melodramas of the time. In 1912 they met fellow child actress Mary Pickford, and she got them extra work with Biograph Pictures. Director D.W. Griffith was impressed by both the girls and cast them in An Unseen Enemy (1912), their first picture. Dorothy would go on to star in over 100 two-reel films and features over the years. She would appear in the very successful Judith de Béthulie (1914) with Blanche Sweet. She and her sister Lillian made a number of films together, including the extremely successful Coeurs du monde (1918) and Les Deux Orphelines (1921). In both films Dorothy would play French girls, but in different periods of time. Lillian would try her hand at directing, with a movie called L'arène conjugale (1920), which starred Dorothy and an actor named James Rennie, whom Dorothy would marry and later divorce. While she would excel in pantomime and light comedy, her popularity would always be overshadowed by that of her sister Lillian, who was considered to be one the silent screen's greatest stars. Dorothy would only make a handful of movies in the 1920s, and in Romola (1924)--a costume picture about Italy in the Middle Ages--she would again co-star with Lillian. By 1926 Dorothy had moved to England, where she would star as the title role in Nell Gwyn (1926). Her last silent film would be Madame Pompadour (1927). In 1928 Dorothy would retire from the screen, except for a few occasional roles, and enjoy a long career on the stage.