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Dorothy Gish

Highest Rated: 95% Hearts of the World (1918)

Lowest Rated: 47% The Cardinal (1963)

Birthday: Mar 11, 1898

Birthplace: Massillon, Ohio, USA

Though not as popular or successful as her older sister, actress Dorothy Gish nonetheless enjoyed a good run in the silent era as a pert and talented leading lady who seemed most at home in comedy. Gish made a number of pictures with her sister and director D.W. Griffith, starting with "An Unseen Enemy" (1912), before having her big breakthrough role in the World War I epic, "Hearts of the World" (1918). After signing a contract with Paramount Pictures that same year, Gish starred in a string of successful films that made her one of the top comic performers in Hollywood. She made her last film with her sister and Griffith in the epic "Orphans of the Storm" (1922), and moved to England in the mid-1920s to make her final silent-era films, including the international hit "Nell Gywnn" (1926). Gish made the transition to talkies with "Wolves" (1930), but stepped away from movies for 14 years to perform on the stage. She returned to pictures as a character actress in "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" (1944) and "Centennial Summer" (1946), and made her last movie "The Cardinal" (1963), before succumbing to ill health. Though overshadowed by her sister, Gish was certainly remembered as a popular star in her own right.

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 31% Hearts of the World
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88% 71% Orphans of the Storm
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86% Remodeling Her Husband
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47% 66% The Cardinal
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The Lady and the Mouse
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38% Judith of Bethulia
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29% An Unseen Enemy
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Atta Boy's Last Race
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60% The Whistle at Eaton Falls
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Nell Gwyn
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Cardinal 47% 66% 1963 Celia Actor The Whistle at Eaton Falls 60% 1951 Mrs. Doubleday Actor Centennial Summer 1946 Mrs. Rogers Actor Our Hearts Were Young and Gay 1944 Mrs. Skinner Actor Wolves 1930 Leila McDonald Actor Tiptoes 1927 Tiptoes Kaye Actor Nell Gwyn 1926 Nell Gwyn Actor Romola 1924 Tessa Actor The Bright Shawl 1923 Actor Orphans of the Storm 88% 71% 1922 Louise Girard Actor Remodeling Her Husband 86% 1920 Janie Wakefield Actor Hearts of the World 95% 31% 1918 A Refugee Mother Actor The Hope Chest 1918 Sheila Moore Actor Atta Boy's Last Race 1916 Lois Brandon Actor Old Heidelberg 1915 Katie Ruder Actor Judith of Bethulia 38% 1914 The crippled beggar Actor The Lady and the Mouse 1913 The Sick Sister Actor An Unseen Enemy 29% 1912 The Sister - Younger Actor
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