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5 unusual facts about Corinne Griffith


Corinne Griffith

She married actor and frequent co-star Webster Campbell from 1920 to 1923, producer Walter Morosco from 1924 to 1934, and the owner of the Washington Redskins football team George Preston Marshall from 1936 to 1958.

1947 My Life with the Redskins – history of the Washington Redskins football team, owned by her husband, George Marshall

During her marriage to Marshall, she composed the lyrics to the Redskins fight song "Hail to the Redskins" which became one of the most famous football anthems.

She was an accomplished writer who published eleven books including two best sellers, My Life with the Redskins and the memoir Papa's Delicate Condition, which was made into a 1963 film starring Jackie Gleason about the Ghio and Griffin family.

Hail to the Redskins

The music was composed by the Redskins team band leader, Barnee Breeskin, and the lyrics were written by Corinne Griffith, the wife of Redskins founder and owner George Preston Marshall.


Bride of the Regiment

The story is a remake of a 1927 First National silent film, The Lady in Ermine, that starred Corinne Griffith.

Carroll Nye

At the begin of his career he had a score of leading man roles in Hollywood opposite such silent screen stars as Anita Page and Corinne Griffith.

Malcolm McGregor

A cross between Wallace Reid and Rudolph Valentino, McGregor, with slick-back hair, starred as the young whaling captain in a film version of Ben Ames Williams' All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923), perhaps the highlight of a busy career that mostly found the handsome, clean-cut actor supporting such glamorous female stars as Corinne Griffith, Florence Vidor, and Evelyn Brent.

Papa's Delicate Condition

It was an adaptation of the Corinne Griffith memoir of the same name, about her father and growing up in Texarkana, Texas.


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