Corinne Griffith – MRQE

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Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Garden of Eden

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.

Outcast

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.

Lilies of the Field

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.

Lilies of the Field

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young mother, Mildred, doesn’t know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband’s, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.

Saturday’s Children

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.

The Common Law

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Valerie West, a beautiful artist’s model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn’t approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won’t marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.

The Divine Lady

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lady Hamilton’s love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

The Lady in Ermine

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When her husband marches off to war, Mariana is left in charge of the ancestral castle and is thus on hand when an invading Austrian regiment makes the castle its headquarters.

Syncopating Sue

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.