Acting
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.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · TV
The Divine Lady
1928 · Movie
Infatuation
1925 · Movie
Outcast
1928 · Movie
Paradise Alley
1962 · Movie
Prisoners
1929 · Movie
The Girl Problem
1919 · Movie
The Garden of Eden
1928 · Movie
Divorce Coupons
1922 · Movie
Lily Christine
1932 · Movie
The Broadway Bubble
1920 · Movie
Three Hours
1927 · Movie
Syncopating Sue
1926 · Movie
Déclassé
1925 · Movie
Black Oxen
1923 · Movie
Island Wives
1922 · Movie
Single Wives
1924 · Movie
The Bramble Bush
1919 · Movie
The Tower of Jewels
1919 · Movie
Back Pay
1930 · Movie
A Girl at Bay
1919 · Movie
The Girl of Today
1918 · Movie
Saturday's Children
1929 · Movie
Thin Ice
1919 · Movie
Lilies of the Field
1930 · Movie
Mademoiselle Modiste
1926 · Movie
Love's Wilderness
1924 · Movie
Who Goes There?
1917 · Movie
The Lady in Ermine
1927 · Movie
Love Watches
1918 · Movie
Six Days
1923 · Movie
Into Her Kingdom
1926 · Movie
I Will Repay
1917 · Movie
The Common Law
1923 · Movie
Lilies of the Field
1924 · Movie
Deadline at Eleven
1920 · Movie
The Love Doctor
1917 · Movie
The Climbers
1919 · Movie
Moral Fibre
1921 · Movie
The Clutch of Circumstance
1918 · Movie
Miss Ambition
1918 · Movie
The Menace
1918 · Movie
The Marriage Whirl
1925 · Movie
A Virgin's Sacrifice
1922 · Movie
The Single Track
1921 · Movie
Through the Wall
1916 · Movie
The Whisper Market
1920 · Movie
The Adventure Shop
1919 · Movie
What's Your Reputation Worth?
1921 · Movie
The Stolen Treaty
1917 · Movie
The Garter Girl
1920 · Movie
Transgression
1917 · Movie
The Unknown Quantity
1919 · Movie
Classified
1925 · Movie
Babs
1920 · Movie
The Cost of High Living
1916 · Movie
