Gigi Parrish

Gigi Parrish

From Wikipedia Gigi Parrish was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts as Katherine Gertrude McElroy, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. Her mother died in 1918, and McElroy and her siblings were put up for adoption. After adoption by a wealthy family, she and her step-siblings were tutored by author Dillwyn Parrish. Although he was eighteen years her senior, the two fell in love, and at the age of fifteen she married Parrish, under the name Gertrude McElroy. For their honeymoon, she and her husband started out on motorcycles from his family's home in Claymont, Delaware, intending to drive across the country to California. Parrish was severely injured in an accident in the Southwestern United States and, once she was physically able, they completed the remainder of the journey via train. In 1929, she and her husband moved permanently to California, where, a few years later, Parrish was signed to a contract with Samuel Goldwyn's motion picture company. In 1933 she made her film debut in Roman Scandals, starring Eddie Cantor and Gloria Stuart. Parrish became a "WAMPAS Baby Star", touring the country to promote motion pictures through the Shriners sponsorship. In 1934 she appeared in secondary roles in six more films. Gigi and Dillwyn Parrish rented a beach house in Laguna Beach, next door to Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher and her husband Alfred Fisher, with whom they became good friends. Her husband fell in love with Mary Fisher at a point when the marriage was already in difficulty. By the time both couples divorced, Parrish had already fallen in love with journalist and screenwriter John Weld (1905-2003). After appearing in nine films, she gave up her acting career and married Weld in 1937. From 1949 to 1965 she and her husband published The Laguna Beach Post, at which time she was known as Katherine Weld. Her husband John Weld died in 2003 in Dana Point, California, aged 98, after 66 years of marriage. Parrish died three years later, aged 93.

  • Title: Gigi Parrish
  • Popularity: 1.106
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1912-08-30
  • Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: Katherine Gertrude McElroy, Gertrude McElroy, Gi-Gi Parrish, Katherine Weld
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Gigi Parrish Movies

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    August Week End

    August Week End

    5 1936 HD

    At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and...

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  • 1934
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    A Girl of the Limberlost

    A Girl of the Limberlost

    1 1934 HD

    Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she...

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    Symphony of Living

    Symphony of Living

    5.7 1935 HD

    Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty...

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    Down to Their Last Yacht

    Down to Their Last Yacht

    6 1934 HD

    Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...

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    Girl o' My Dreams

    Girl o' My Dreams

    4.5 1934 HD

    A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the...

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    Twentieth Century

    Twentieth Century

    6.8 1934 HD

    A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

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