LADY IN ERMINE

Original 10 inch x 8 inch Portrait of CORINNE GRIFFITH in the 1927 James Flood Drama THE LADY IN ERMINE, based on the operatta Die Frau im Hermelin by Ernst Welisch & Rudolph Schanzer.

Corinne Griffith (1896 – 1979) was educated at a New Orleans convent. She was signed in 1916 on a movie contract by the New York-based Vitagraph. In the early 1920s, she moved to First National in Hollywood, where she became known as the “Orchid Lady” for her delicate beauty. Miss Griffith, whose stature as “the world’s most beautiful woman” in the silent era equaled that of Hedy Lamarr in the talkike era, was rarely called upon to act, but remained highly popular through to the end of the silent period. She appeared in a handful of talkies before retiring from the screen a wealthy woman. She then turned to business and writing. One of her dozen books, Papa’s Delicate Condition, was adapted to the screen in 1963. Her several husbands included actor-director Webster Campbell, screen producer Walter Morosco and Washington Redskins owner Preston Marshall.

The portrait is in very good condition with minor surface marks.