Dorothy Gish Movies

Orphans of the Storm

78/100

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

Hearts of the World

67/100

Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.

Nell Gwyn

76/100

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

Romola

66/100

In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a ... See full summary »

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

75/100

Brad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance.

The Bright Shawl

71/100

Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in Cuba of the 1850s. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of... See full summary »

Old Heidelberg

69/100

Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child...

Tiptoes

61/100

A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical

Betty of Greystone

53/100

After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there. She meets David Chandler, Graystone's ... See full summary »

Madame Pompadour

72/100

The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.

The Hun Within

60/100

A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America. The son becomes involved with German ... See full summary »

The Little Yank

Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a lieutenant in the Union army, and on a visit home brings Major Rushton, his superior ... See full summary »

Children of the Feud

Pap Clayton a Mountaineer has promised his daughter Sairy Ann ( Dorothy Gish ) to his cousin Jed Martin, but Sairy Ann loves Dr. Richard Cavanagh ( Sam DeGrasse ), the son of Judge Lee ... See full summary »

The Hope Chest

The Ghost in the Garret

Framed for stealing some pearls while staying at the country home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, Delsie O'Dell ( Dorothy Gish ) is banished from their house. Delsie along ... See full summary »

Her Official Fathers

When Janice Webster's ( Dorothy Gish ) father dies and leaves her guardianship to Ethan Dexter and Henry Jarvis, the vice presidents of the Webster Trust Co., which holds her fortune until ... See full summary »

Peppy Polly

Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the investigation whitewashes the facts.

Boots

Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventure. When she discovers a Bolshevik plot... See full summary »

London

A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.

Atta Boy's Last Race

Young Lois Brandon is about to have her home foreclosed if she doesn't come up with some money. She enters her horse, Atta Boy, in a big-money race, hoping the win will enable her to pay off the mortgage and save her home.

Mary Ellen Comes to Town

A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.

Night Life of New York

Flying Pat

Little Miss Rebellion

The Grand Duchess Marie Louise is the beautiful young ruler of Molvania. She is a fun-loving girl who secretly hopes that the revolutionaries who threaten to take over her country are able ... See full summary »

Clothes Make the Pirate

The film is a comedy that centers on a disgruntled 18th century Bostonian, played by Errol, who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken ... See full summary »