Dorothy Gish Autographs
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968) was an American stage and screen actress. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
Dorothy Gish was born in Dayton, Ohio. She had an elder sister, Lillian. The Gish sisters' mother, Mary, supported the family after her husband James Leigh Gish, a traveling salesman, abandoned the family in New York. Mary Gish, who was "a former actress and department store clerk", moved with her daughters to East St. Louis, Illinois, where she opened a candy and catering business. In 1902, at the age of four, Dorothy made her stage debut portraying the character "Little Willie" in East Lynne, an adaptation of the 1861 English novel by Ellen Wood.
In 1910, Mary heard from her husband's brother, Grant Gish, who lived in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and informed her that James was ill. He was in a hospital in nearby Norman, Oklahoma, so Mary sent 17-year-old Lillian to visit him. At first, Lillian wrote back to her 12-year-old sister Dorothy that she planned to stay in Oklahoma and continue her education, but after seeing her father she admitted she missed her mother and sister. So, after a few months away from them, in the spring of 1912, she traveled back. Soon afterward, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced the sisters to director D. W. Griffith, and they began performing as extras at the Biograph Studios in New York at salaries of 50 dollars a week. During his initial work with the sisters, Griffith found it difficult to distinguish one from the other, so he had Lillian wear a blue ribbon in her hair and Dorothy a red one. The girls, especially Lillian, impressed the director, so he included them in the entourage of cast and crew he took to California to produce films there.
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Current items with a signature of Dorothy Gish
These are the most current items with a signature of Dorothy Gish that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | HERBERT WILCOX—SIGNED PHOTO—Director—Laughton•Will Rogers•Dorothy Gish•Milland | $107.00 |  |
Traded items with a signature of Dorothy Gish
The most expensive item with a signature of Dorothy Gish (D.W. Griffith Lillian Dorothy Gish Extremely Rare Early Autographed Page '21 &) was sold in April 2025 for $2,599.99 while the cheapest item (Two (2) DOROTHY GISH + RICHARD BARTHELMESS 7 x 9 SIGNED PICTURE PAGE by BOTH) found a new owner for $3.88 in August 2019. The month with the most items sold (13) was December 2018 with an average selling price of $12.50 for an autographed item of Dorothy Gish. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in February 2022 with $360.60 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $7.50 was January 2019. In average, an autographed item from Dorothy Gish is worth $26.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Dorothy Gish were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Antique Famous Hollywood Actress Dorothy Gish Autographed Photograph | $10.99 |  |
 | Antique Famous Hollywood Actress Dorothy Gish Autographed Photograph | $50.00 | |
| Antique Famous Hollywood Actress Dorothy Gish Autographed Photograph | $60.00 | |
| DOROTHY GISH - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED | $125.99 | |
| DOROTHY GISH - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH | $307.99 | |
| Dorothy Gish - Signed Autograph Book Page - Silent Film Star d.1968 | $45.98 | |
| Dorothy Gish Actress Original Signed Autograph Cut Signature Dated 1941 | $28.99 | |
| Dorothy Gish American Silent Film Actress Original Signed Autograph 8x10 Photo | $128.99 | |
| Dorothy Gish Witzel Studios Photograph (silent movie star) stamped signature? | $37.50 | |
| Lillian & Dorothy Gish- Silent Film Actress - 8x10 Photo Signed | Autograph (a) | $183.98 | |
| Lillian & Dorothy Gish- Silent Film Actress - 8x10 Photo Signed | Autograph (c) | $183.98 | |
| Lillian & Dorothy Gish- Silent Film Actress - 8x10 Photo Signed | Autograph (e) | $258.98 | |
| Lillian & Dorothy Gish- Silent Film Actress Photo Signed | Autograph | $181.50 | |
| NELSON KEYS—SIGNED PHOTO—Film/Stage Comic—Ziegfeld•WillRogers•Dorothy Gish•Gwenn | $56.00 | |
| VINTAGE "SILENT FILM " ACTRESS: DOROTHY GISH SIGNED 8 X 10 SEPIA STYLE PHOTO | $74.99 | |
