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Dorothy Gish (March 11, 1898 - June 4, 1968) was
an United States|American actress.  Born Dorothy
Elizabeth de Guiche in Dayton, Ohio, she was the
sister of actress Lillian Gish.

Dorothy's mother Mary began acting in order to
support the family after her husband left.  When
they were old enough, Dorothy and Lillian were
brought into their mother's act, and they also
modeled.  In 1912 they met Mary Pickford, and she
got them work at the American Mutoscope and
Biograph Company|Biograph Studios.

Dorothy and Lillian both debuted in D.W.
Griffith's An Unseen Enemy.  Dorothy would go on
to star in over 100 short films and features, many
of them with Lillian.

Overshadowed by her sister's popularity, Dorothy
virtually retired from motion pictures when
talkies came along.  She moved to England, where
she turned her attention to the stage.  From 1930
until her death, she only appeared in five more
movies, and one television movie.  She did make
several appearances in anthology television series
in the early 1950s.

She was married to James Rennie (1890-1965), a
Canadian-born actor who was her co-star in
Remodeling Her Husband (filmed in 1920, it was
sister Lillian's only movie as director). They
were married in 1920 in a double ceremony with
actress Constance Talmadge and businessman John
Piagoglou and were divorced in 1935.

On her passing in 1968, Dorothy Gish was interred
in Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church cemetery
in Manhattan, New York.

==Filmography==
Her best known films are  Old Heidelberg, Stage
Struck, The Little Yankee, Children of the Feud,
That Colby Girl, Hearts of the World, Battling
Jane, The Hope Chest, and Orphans of the Storm.  

== External Links ==
http://silentladies.com/PGishD.html Extensive
Dorothy Gish gallery