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- Birth nameKatherine Gertrude McElray
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Gigi Parrish was born on August 30, 1912 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Kiss and Make-Up (1934), August Weekend (1936) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1934). She was married to John Weld and Parrish, Dillwyn. She died on February 8, 2006 in Dana Point, California, USA.
- SpousesJohn Weld(1937 - June 14, 2003) (his death)Parrish, Dillwyn(1928 - 1936) (divorced)
- Lovely minor actress signed by Samuel Goldwyn, she became a WAMPAS Baby Star and appeared in a few 1930s films.
- She and second husband John Weld (1905-2003) owned the "Laguna Beach Post" newspaper from 1949 to 1965.
- Once wed to author Dillwyn Parrish, whom she married at age 15. They met when he was tutoring her siblings. He was 18 years her senior. 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. She was severely injured in an accident, however, in the Southwestern region of the U.S., and, once she was physically able, completed the remainder of the journey via train.
- Moved to California in 1929.
- Her first husband, writer and artist George Dillwyn Parrish, was the cousin of artist Maxfield Parrish. Gigi and Dillwyn divorced over Dillwyn's deepening relationship with their friend, food writer M.F.K. Fisher, whom he then married.
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