Linda Arvidson, Griffith's wife remembered in her autobiography, When The Movies Were Young
Dorothy would go on to star in over 100 short films and features, many of them with Lillian. Dorothy and Lillian Gish both debuted in Griffith's An Unseen Enemy. Griffith, and the sisters began acting at the Biograph Studios. In 1912, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced them to director D.W. When they were old enough, Dorothy and Lillian were brought into their mother's act, and they also modeled. The Gish sisters' mother, Mary Robinson McConnell, supported the family after her husband, James Leigh Gish, abandoned the family. Her sister Lillian was later interred beside her.įor her contribution as an actress in motion pictures, Dorothy Gish was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6385 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California.ĭorothy Elizabeth Gish (Ma– June 4, 1968) was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish. She was interred in Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church columbarium in the undercroft of the church, New York City. She died in 1968 from bronchial pneumonia at the age of 70 at a clinic in Rapallo, Italy where she had been a patient for two years, with sister Lillian at her side. A cameo in the 1963 Otto Preminger film The Cardinal was Gish's final screen appearanceĭorothy De Guiche married actor James Rennie in 1920 in a double ceremony with actress Constance Talmadge and businessman John Piagoglou, and were divorced in 1935. Another long hiatus followed before she co-starred in the 1951 Robert Siodmak docudrama The Whistle at Eaton Falls. Gish returned to cinemas in the 1944 romantic comedy Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, followed two years later by Centennial Summer. The 1927 Herbert Wilcox drama Madame Pompadour was her final film appearance during the silent era she did not reappear onscreen before 1930's Wolves, and then gave up motion pictures for more than a decade to concentrate on the stage. Gish also appeared in a number of Elmer Clifton comedies, and in 1920 even starred in Dorothy's directorial debut Remodeling Her Husband.
Among her most memorable performances for the director were turns in 1914's Judith of Bethulia, 1918's Hearts of the World, and 1922's Orphans of the Storm.
While overshadowed by Lillian's fame, Dorothy was among the Griffith stable's finest actresses, skilled both in pantomime and light comedy. Dorothy and Lillian debuted together in 1912's An Unseen Enemy and over the next several years appeared both together and independently in dozens of the director's one- and two-reelers. She found work with the famed Griffith, and soon persuaded him to recruit the Gish sisters for his Biograph Studios' repertory company of actors. Among their colleagues was another child actress, Mary Pickford, who in 1909 traveled west to Hollywood to pursue a career in the movies. The family soon relocated to New York, where in short time the girls were the family breadwinners. Born Dorothy de Guiche in Massillon, OH, on March 11, 1898, she was the youngest daughter of actress Mary Gish and with her sister began acting onstage at the age of four. The less-celebrated younger sister of the famed Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish was also a pioneer of the silent screen through her work under director D.W.
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